Travel to Vanuatu & VLI Airport

Started the day with some chill reading by the pool, before grabbing a taxi to the airport for my 2pm flight.

Managed to successfully check in without getting my carryons weighed as they were way overweight. Transferred the “carryon checked” tag from my little backpack to the big one. Spent the last of my cash on a burger and went through security

Boarded the plane, and they didn’t even look twice at my carryons haha

A seamless travel day, until we get to Port Vila, Vanuatu. After a very close go-around in the heavy rain, the pilot decides it’s too low visibility to land, and so we don’t land— and fly all the way back to Nadi! At this point no one knows if we’ll make it to VLI today or not :/

After landing at Nadi we get the news that they’ll try and get us there today, but still deciding if we’re going to unload or just stay on the plane until it’s safe to go again. After over 45mins of waiting on the tarmac, we get the go ahead to go back to Port Vila! Thankfully I found a good show to watch, and got many episodes into The Last of Us, so wasn’t too peeved about the waiting, but was definitely hungry when we landed.

Six hours after we originally took off, and over 4 hours after we were originally supposed to land, we arrived at VLI airport at 7:30. I was super hungry and tried to buy some banana bread at the airport cafe that was closing up shop, but didn’t have any Vanuatu cash so they gave it to me for free. Delicious banana bread.

After passing through customs I got picked up by Joy, the owner of the homestay I’ll be staying at for the next few nights, and we drive the 4mins to her house.Read more