Anyway - we made it to our honeymoon at last! And wowzers - it was worth the wait. We ended up choosing to go to the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides). I'm very tempted to launch into a very lengthy, but informative history of Vanuatu right here on this blog. However, I feel this may alienate our limited but loyal readership so don't want to take that risk. Check out wikipedia instead - but I'll summarise things in two sentences.
Officially the 'happiest place in the world', this melanesian island nation, with volcanoes, waterfalls, pristine white beaches and WWII wrecks abound. Pigs are very important and Kava even more so (the local root-based intoxicant) - oh, and they think the Duke of Edinburgh is the living manifestation of their god on one of the islands.
How could you not want to go there?
We'll split the 'honeymoon blog' into a few separate areas, just to spread the enjoyment for you all that little bit further. And there's quite a lot to cram in.
We'll start with where we stayed - Tamanu. Six lovely little luxury cottages right on a white beach, about 30mins outside of Port Vila (pronounced Villa), the capital city of Vanuatu (population 30,000) on its main island. This was good as it felt we were properly out of the way, but near enough to the 'action' if required. What a lovely spot it was too with the sound of the waves crashing onto the reef to lull you to sleep. Check out these pics:
 |
| Our little cottage with the ocean right outside |
 |
| The view of the Pacific Ocean from our verandah |
And look at these sunsets taken from the beach in front of our cottage, they were pretty breathtaking...
Our little cottage was made out of coral washed up on the beach.
And had a half outside bathroom!
 |
| Fortunately the wall was just high enough to make it not too weird. |
Looks amazing, I hope there were no tall people walking by the Dunnie. Can't wait for the next instalment.
ReplyDelete