Location

Vanuatu South Pacific charm, culture and hospitality...

Only a few hours flying time from Australia, Vanuatu offers the perfect blend of South Pacific culture, charm and hospitality. Combine that with duty free shopping, volcanic sand beaches, tropical waterfalls and deep sea fishing, and you have the ideal escape from the daily grind.

Where to find Worawia resort

Efate island map - click on to enlarge

Worawia holiday resort is on Efate island, near Port Vila, Vanuatu - only 2.5 hours flying time from Brisbane and 3.5 hours from Sydney, Australia. It’s a little over 3 hours from Auckland, New Zealand, and an hour or less of flying time from Fiji, New Caledonia and other South Pacific island nations. (See our reference maps on right.) Upon your arrival at Bauerfield International Airport, the Worawia courtesy bus will be waiting to deliver you to the resort, which is only 10 minutes away.

Vanuatu – South Pacific

Vanuatu island map - click on to enlarge

Vanuatu is a group of 83 islands in the South West Pacific, situated North East of New Caledonia and North West of Fiji. Our resort is located on Efate Island, which is the main administrative island of the Vanuatu archipelago. We are only a short distance away from Port Vila, connected by Fr. Dr. Lini (formerly known as Kumul) highway.

For more details, see Efate island, Vanuatu and Oceania maps on the right - click on maps to enlarge. Vanuatu and Oceania maps here provided courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.

Port Vila Town

Oceania map - click on to enlarge

Port Vila is the capital of Vanuatu and an important commercial and business centre for Vanuatu and the South Pacific. The majority of 50,000 people living on Efate Island are residents of Port Vila, which offers a lively and colourful mix of services, offices, banks, restaurants, gift and souvenir shops, duty free stores, supermarkets, boutiques, cafes, galleries and local green and handcrafts market. There are also many expats living in Port Vila, who have relocated to Vanuatu and / or have Vanuatu citizenship.

Bauerfield International Airport

Panorama of Port Vila

Port Vila Bauerfield International Airport is the main gateway to Vanuatu. The airport’s international terminal building was constructed 12 years ago with the assistance from the Government of Japan. For the past 3 years the airport has been undergoing renovations, which were completed in July 2005. Over 17 million Euros have been invested in upgrading of the aviation infrastructure. These funds were made available in a mixed package of aid grants and soft loans from Australia, the EU, France, New Zealand, the UK and the Vanuatu Government.

The Airports Vanuatu Limited (AVL) has won the international recognition through Airports Council International (ACI) for communications, coming equal fourth with Taiwan in a recent competition between the 1,500 airports which are members of ACI.

The Vanuatu Government’s Council of Ministers has also approved the arrangements for construction of a new international terminal building at Pekoa Airport in Luganville, on Santo island, with the financial assistance from France.

Vanuatu Flights

Bauerfield Airport

There are several international airlines offering flights to Vanuatu:

Air Vanuatu – The local international airlines, operating jointly with Qantas from Australia, provides return flights in and out of Port Vila, via Australia, New Zealand, Noumea, Fiji and Solomon Islands.

Air Pacific – The Fijian international airline provides return flights in and out of Port Vila, via Fiji onward to Australia, New Zealand, Tongatapu, Tahiti, Honiara, USA and Canada.

Aircalin – The New Caledonian international airline provides return flights in and out of Port Vila via Noumea onward to France, and Japan.

Pacific Blue – the Virgin international airline provides return flights in and out of Port Vila via Australia and New Zealand.

The domestic airlines and charters offer the following services:

Vanair – Vanuatu's domestic airline flies to 29 destinations throughout the archipelago, from the northern most islands to those in the far south.

Unity Airlines – established in 2003 by Tony Dreamer, an Australian living in Vanuatu since 1973, offers scenic flights throughout Vanuatu.

Temperatures in Vanuatu

Remembering that Vanuatu is in the Southern Hemisphere (it’s Winter here when it’s Summer in the Northern Hemisphere), the climate of Vanuatu is generally tropical temperate with rainfall averaging about 235 centimetres (90 inches) annually. Ideal destination for those who'd like to experience a tropical Christmas, for a change.

Typical temperature ranges are:

Summer:
December – March: temperature range 21°C - 33°C
Autumn:
April – June: temperature range 19°C - 29°C
Winter:
July – September: temperature range 15°C - 26°C
Spring:
October – November: temperature range 18°C - 30°C

Use this temperature converter for precise temperature conversions, from Celsius to Fahrenheit.

Further reading about Vanuatu
Find out more about Vanuatu travel from author David Stanley’s South Pacific Organizer.