by Alex | Nov 20, 2017 | wildlife
Vanuatu is home to some rare, amazing and beautiful birdlife, thanks to its diversity of habitats ranging from coastal swamps and lowland forests to incredible mountain cloud forests. At last count there were around 178 different species of birds spotted in...
by Alex | Nov 12, 2017 | travel secrets, wildlife
Believe it or not, flying foxes (or fruit bats as they are more commonly known) are Vanuatu’s only native land mammal – everything else has been introduced by humans! There are actually five different types of Vanuatu flying foxes, including one named...
by Alex | Oct 13, 2017 | travelling safely, wildlife
Jeffrey Aru from Paradise Tours on Espiritu Santo, doesn’t consider himself a particularly brave man. But he will often pick up giant spiders and let them crawl up his arm or on his face to prove a point to travellers. “Vanuatu is a very friendly country – the...
by Alex | Jun 17, 2017 | wildlife
So, you’ve just arrived in Efate or maybe Espiritu Santo – you’re handed a stunning, emerald-green lizard to take a photo with. You’re told it’s a rare banded Vanuatu iguana, whose ancestors floated to the south Pacific islands on mats of...
by Alex | May 1, 2017 | food, wildlife
Vanuatu coconut crabs are the largest and most powerful land crabs on the planet (only the Japanese spider crab is bigger – but it lives in the deep ocean!). Coconut crabs can grow up to an incredible 1m (3ft) long and weigh over 4kgs. Vanuatu is one of the last...
by Alex | Mar 25, 2017 | culture, wildlife
Pigs are a cultural currency in Vanuatu- your status in a village is often based on the pigs you own. But did you know Vanuatu’s sacred or kastom pigs also hold the secrets to world history hidden within their DNA? And that the most valued of the kastom pigs...
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