Vanuatu Travel News

November 29th, 2009. One visiting leader loses his seat in Parliament due to his attending the Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting.

On the day it needed to flow like a factory assembly line, with a sentence being completed and written down every 39 seconds In Port Vila, on the tropical island of Vanuatu in the South Pacific, YouMe Support Foundation staged a successful Guinness World challenge on 19th November.

COFFS is like, totally boring. Surfers Paradise is so getting old and Byron Bay is full of randoms.

PHOENIX Biltmore and history Get schooled in the history of Arizona and Frank Lloyd Wright by booking the "Arizona Biltmore History Package" at the resort where every U.S. president from Herbert Hoover through George W. Bush has stayed, where Clark Gable and Carole Lombard honeymooned, and where Irving Berlin wrote "White Christmas." Dates: Through ...

Friday 23nd October 2009 Solomons The whole day is spent at sea coming down through the "Slot" through the Solomons, with photos of chains of islands either side, extreme rainy weather, and course details.

Two-night accommodation and Melbourne International flower and Garden Show packages are priced from $345 each, twin-share. You'll get a day's pass to the show, which runs from March 24 to 28.

There has been panic in parts of the Pacific after a large earthquake struck 300 kilometres north-west of the Vanuatu island of Espiritu Santo, prompting tsunami warnings across the region.

MARK COLVIN: After last week's earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Samoa the news of another quake of Vanuatu put most of the region on high alert today, but this time there was no destruction and no enormous waves.

The 7.8-magnitude quake has been followed by several smaller quakes / Graphic: Lincoln Archer/news.com.au Two major quakes off Vanuatu Tsunami warning for Pacific islands First reaction: Twitter A TSUNAMI warning has been issued in the Pacific after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, which was quicky followed by a 7.3 tremor.

Items were tossed off shelves and tourists fled their rooms as a 5.7 magnitude quake rocked the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Monday.

Under $300 Stay a night at Langham Hotel from $255 each, twin-share, and get an A Reserve concert ticket to Starlight Express.

The self-proclaimed "style capital" of the north coast of New South Wales, Byron Bay is home to an eclectic mix of cafes, boutiques and bars as well as the Byron Bay Lighthouse.

Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra met Fiji's Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama here this week.

Vanuatu... search out the remote islands. A new small-ship cruise venture around some of the more remote of Vanuatu's 83 islands includes a close-up of the original "Bali-Hai" made famous in the stage and film musical South Pacific.

Vanuatu has long been part of the vocabulary for me and my husband, Steve; an exotic-sounding shorthand for a more peaceful, less-frenetic way of life.