Club Nouméa's Tiki Tour of Vanuatu - Tiki Travel

CN Club Nouméa Member Wanganui Joined: May 03, 2010 Posts: 459	CN Club Nouméa Posted posted on Sat, Sep 17, 2011 8:02 PM Part 7 - Tour of Efate To close the tour, here are some photos I took going around the island of Efate. Monument to the first 4 Samoan missionaries in the New Hebrides, who landed on Erakor Island, in Erakor Lagoon (see the first photo in Part 3), in 1845. Ladies doing their washing down by the river (Rentapao River). Coconut plantation near Enam. Eton Beach (pronounced "ET-on", not "EE-ton", and nothing to do with the English school of the same name). A private residence, Eton Village. Piglets, Eton Village. Hunting/catching/shooting/killing ban sign in Bislama. Old hut near Bethel Village. Sara Beach, with the island of Emao (an extinct volcano) in the background. Beach mutt, Sara Beach. Lunch, Sara Beach restaurant. Sara Beach restaurant. The ring road. Efate is the only island in Vanuatu with a sealed road running around it. It was built with a combination of aid and engineering assistance from Japan, the US, Australia and New Zealand. The location of the TV series "Survivor Vanuatu", now used as a picnic spot. The protagonists in the TV series could not be said to have been "roughing it". They were only about 25 minutes' drive away from Port Vila by sealed road, and had running water, showers, toilets etc. The series did however provide employment for 330 Ni-Vans whilst being filmed there. John, the guide, and a totally inauthentic leftover carving from the "Survivor" series. Seconds before, I saw him scowling at it, but he spotted my camera before I could take a shot of him in that mood. Mele Falls, a popular swimming and picnic spot just outside Port Vila. That wraps it up. For me, John the guide summed up Vanuatu the best: "Vanuatu - friendly spiders, friendly snakes, friendly crocodiles and friendly people!" CN Toto, j'ai l'impression que nous ne sommes plus au Kansas ! [ Edited by: Club Nouméa 2011-09-30 01:10 ]

Part 7 - Tour of Efate

To close the tour, here are some photos I took going around the island of Efate.

Monument to the first 4 Samoan missionaries in the New Hebrides, who landed on Erakor Island, in Erakor Lagoon (see the first photo in Part 3), in 1845.

Ladies doing their washing down by the river (Rentapao River).

Coconut plantation near Enam.

Eton Beach (pronounced "ET-on", not "EE-ton", and nothing to do with the English school of the same name).

A private residence, Eton Village.

Piglets, Eton Village.

Hunting/catching/shooting/killing ban sign in Bislama.

Old hut near Bethel Village.

Sara Beach, with the island of Emao (an extinct volcano) in the background.

Beach mutt, Sara Beach.

Lunch, Sara Beach restaurant.

Sara Beach restaurant.

The ring road. Efate is the only island in Vanuatu with a sealed road running around it. It was built with a combination of aid and engineering assistance from Japan, the US, Australia and New Zealand.

The location of the TV series "Survivor Vanuatu", now used as a picnic spot. The protagonists in the TV series could not be said to have been "roughing it". They were only about 25 minutes' drive away from Port Vila by sealed road, and had running water, showers, toilets etc. The series did however provide employment for 330 Ni-Vans whilst being filmed there.

John, the guide, and a totally inauthentic leftover carving from the "Survivor" series. Seconds before, I saw him scowling at it, but he spotted my camera before I could take a shot of him in that mood.

Mele Falls, a popular swimming and picnic spot just outside Port Vila.

That wraps it up. For me, John the guide summed up Vanuatu the best: "Vanuatu - friendly spiders, friendly snakes, friendly crocodiles and friendly people!"

Toto, j'ai l'impression que nous ne sommes plus au Kansas !

[ Edited by: Club Nouméa 2011-09-30 01:10 ]

Post #607158 by Club Nouméa on Sat, Sep 17, 2011 8:02 PM