Vanuatu Basics

March 21, 2008 ·  

Airport Tax
Departure tax at the International Airport is VUV 2,500 per person over the age of 12 years and VUV 400 for domestic Vanair Service tax. Both these passenger service charges are included in airfares.

A separate domestic departure fee has also recently been launched which charges visitors and locals 200vt from any Shefa and Sanma Province domestic airport. This is applied to every leg where a passenger departs from the following domestic airports: Bauerfield – Port Vila, Siwo... [Read more]

Cultural Samoa (video podcast)

March 4, 2008 ·  

This year at the Los Angeles Times Adventures in Travel show I split interview duties with the lovely and talented Eileen — note her many articles on ITKT. In this interview I met with Zeta from Samoa; this is our first anything on Samoa on ITKT, and we talk culture and life on Samoa. I am more interested than ever to visit Samoa, and stay at a place without doors!

To see this and any of our videos please have Quicktime 7.0 or better installed on your computer. It’s easy and you may already have it.... [Read more]

Getting Aussie at Young and Jackson

January 30, 2008 ·  

“How do you get down from a kangaroo? You don’t get down from a kangaroo; you get down from a goose,” Kevin smiled nervously in front of his silent audience and futilely tapped the microphone in front of him. Yep, it was on, but the crowd wasn’t amused. By the end of the night Team USA finished the weekly joke Contest right where we started: last. Though Australian and American humor may be oceans apart, the... [Read more]