1995 Vanuatu, Efate Island Beach
Travel Industry trip to Vanuatu, staying at the Iririki Island Resort.The tour of the main island Efate was on a dirt track and didn't take very long, but was very interesting and scenic. Port Vila is a bustling centre and cruise ships are regular visitors. Many beautiful resorts and the locals are very welcoming. A beautiful laidback South Pacific Island.
www.vanuatu.travel/efateBrochure.pdf
In July 2004, an archaeological dig at Teouma, near Port Vila, unearthed Lapita pottery, and the skeletal remains of nine Lapita people, chickens and pigs, dating back to 3200 years ago. The first people to settle, establish crops and have domestic animals, they had crossed the sea from the Solomon Islands.
Between the 11th and 15th centuries AD, Polynesians arrived from the central Pacific in sailing canoes holding up to 50 people, live animals, and gardens growing in the boats. Vanuatu's traditions tell of cultural heroes arriving around this time from islands to the east, bringing with them new skills and customs.
Read more: www.lonelyplanet.com/vanuatu/history#ixzz236MFVytO
Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were the members of a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived in Espiritu Santo in 1605; he claimed the archipelago for Spain and named Espiritu Santo. In the 1880s France and the United Kingdom claimed parts of the country, and in 1906 they agreed on a framework for jointly managing the archipelago as the New Hebrides through a British–French Condominium. An independence movement arose in the 1970s, and the Republic of Vanuatu was founded in 1980.
1995 Vanuatu, Efate Island Beach
Travel Industry trip to Vanuatu, staying at the Iririki Island Resort.The tour of the main island Efate was on a dirt track and didn't take very long, but was very interesting and scenic. Port Vila is a bustling centre and cruise ships are regular visitors. Many beautiful resorts and the locals are very welcoming. A beautiful laidback South Pacific Island.
www.vanuatu.travel/efateBrochure.pdf
In July 2004, an archaeological dig at Teouma, near Port Vila, unearthed Lapita pottery, and the skeletal remains of nine Lapita people, chickens and pigs, dating back to 3200 years ago. The first people to settle, establish crops and have domestic animals, they had crossed the sea from the Solomon Islands.
Between the 11th and 15th centuries AD, Polynesians arrived from the central Pacific in sailing canoes holding up to 50 people, live animals, and gardens growing in the boats. Vanuatu's traditions tell of cultural heroes arriving around this time from islands to the east, bringing with them new skills and customs.
Read more: www.lonelyplanet.com/vanuatu/history#ixzz236MFVytO
Vanuatu was first inhabited by Melanesian people. The first Europeans to visit the islands were the members of a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived in Espiritu Santo in 1605; he claimed the archipelago for Spain and named Espiritu Santo. In the 1880s France and the United Kingdom claimed parts of the country, and in 1906 they agreed on a framework for jointly managing the archipelago as the New Hebrides through a British–French Condominium. An independence movement arose in the 1970s, and the Republic of Vanuatu was founded in 1980.