Our final excursion was with a guide to a
local village, where we were shown all the traditional methods of
making food and clothes in Vanuatu. Unfortunately they could not perform any songs or dances as a chief of one of the other villages had died 10 days prior. We also had
cava, a narcotic drug together with the chief which symbolises us becoming friends. I did not really want to take it as the hygiene did not look to good but we had to out of respect, and as expected I got rather sick and had to go on antibiotics back in Auckland.
What was really amazing about our whole trip to Espiritu Santo is how little tourists there were there. Going there and leaving we were the only non islanders on the plane. There was hardly anything arranged for tourists in the little town of Luganville, only the dive centers and some non-existing food stores and a fruit market. Everyone was also really happy to see you and we quite often felt stared at. We believe it was really nice to enjoy the south pacific like this, hence like it used to be before a lot of it became very exploited with lots of resorts.
Our final excursion was with a guide to a local village, where we were shown all the traditional methods of making food and clothes in Vanuatu. Unfortunately they could not perform any songs or dances as a chief of one of the other villages had died 10 days prior. We also had cava, a narcotic drug together with the chief which symbolises us becoming friends. I did not really want to take it as the hygiene did not look to good but we had to out of respect, and as expected I got rather sick and had to go on antibiotics back in Auckland.
What was really amazing about our whole trip to Espiritu Santo is how little tourists there were there. Going there and leaving we were the only non islanders on the plane. There was hardly anything arranged for tourists in the little town of Luganville, only the dive centers and some non-existing food stores and a fruit market. Everyone was also really happy to see you and we quite often felt stared at. We believe it was really nice to enjoy the south pacific like this, hence like it used to be before a lot of it became very exploited with lots of resorts.
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