Friday, August 10, 2012

Day 2 - Downtown Port Vila


Our second day began with buffet breakfast, it is of high standard which means we will probably need to use those extra holes in our belt buckles! I do find it funny how we talk about trying to eat as healthy as possible at the same time as biting into our 3rd hash brown triangle of the morning.


We decided to walk into town as the hotel is advertised as only being 1.5 km from town. What they don't advertise is that we need to climb up over, and then back down a rather large mountain (maybe its technically a hill, but nevertheless it's big). Next time we will catch a local 'bus'. The buses are very interesting, they are essentially a tarago (or equivalent), you flag them down and tell them where to take you. Some of these buses look nice, new and comfortable, while others look like they are about to fall apart. The cool thing is that they are also themed, we saw one that had tiger stripes, a North QLD Cowboys theme, and a reggae bus. When choosing which bus to flag, I'm going to go with the one that looks less likely to fall apart as opposed to which has the prettiest decals on it's side! 

Lunch was at the Brew House, a pub run by Aussies and its a micro brewery for the other local beer Nambawan (pronounced Number One). I thought they named this as the most popular beer in Vanuatu. However after going to the urinal/toilet at the Brew House and being able to look from the toilet into the micro brewery next door, I'm now scared its named after its secret ingredient.....

After lunch and walk back to hotel  we had a well deserved nap, cocktail, and then dinner.... What a life! 

We decided that we wanted to do 'one big' activity each day, Day 3's big activity will be to organise day trips....we don't want to stress ourselves out too much!


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