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Whether you want to live it up, chow down, take the heat or just chill, Port Vila has what you want, writes Shandelle Battersby.

Maria de Jong saddles up with with Wayne and trepidation for a plantation trek.

Shandelle Battersby enjoys a day of thrilling adventures on - and under - the water.

Shandelle Battersby gets down and dirty on Vanuatu's main island and has a fabulous time.

Anna Leask is charmed by the delights of Vanuatu.

Shandelle Battersby checks in to Iririki Island Resort and Spa, Port Vila, Vanuatu.

It was the wettest holiday I can remember. It was as wet as a shag, a wet week, a wet bus ticket nearly all the time and it couldn't have come at a better, wetter time.

Six men have been jailed after leading a 100-strong mob armed with weapons to a lodge owned by a New Zealander in Vanuatu.

We smelt the inside of the Earth long before we saw it. It stormed up our nostrils, scorched our sinuses like a giant helping of wasabi, and made us cough and splutter.

The drowning of a NZ-based doctor scuba diving in Vanuatu has prompted a coroner to issue safety warnings to those exploring the water.

The perfect place to see a volcano erupt is high in the banyan treetops of Vanuatu, writes Peter de Graaf.

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake has struck about 46km northeast of Port Olry in Vanuatu.

A New Zealander living in Vanuatu has appeared in court today facing charges for murdering a local man in what police describe as a vicious, drunken fight over a girl.

A newly married Muslim couple are sharing their wedding gifts with the people of Vanuatu, hoping to set up a sustainable water pump in a remote island village.

Diana Balham comes face to face with a very angry - but very pretty - volcano on the Vanuatu island of Tanna.

Good food, waterfalls and gorgeous beaches are great reasons to visit Vanuatu, writes Megan Singleton.

Further New Zealand aid has arrived in Vanuatu to help in the aftermath of Cyclone Pam.

The death toll from the "monster storm" has risen to 16 and aid agencies have begun a measles vaccination campaign to contain the virus.

A week on from Cyclone Pam some sense of normality has returned - at least in the capital, Port Vila.

A Red Cross leader labelled Polyfest 'cold and mean-spirited' after it initially refused to let the charity collect at the event for Pacific victims of Cyclone Pam.

It was a tale of two villages. In one, rice, food and water provided by aid agencies, in another, nothing at all.

The deputy chairman of Vanuatu's natural disaster committee has launched a stinging attack on NGOs in the cyclone-struck nation.

New Zealand aid worker Andrew Finlay takes Kirsty Johnston around the island of Tanna, where the destruction is wholesale.

The threat of disease from dirty water has affected "absolutely everybody" in Vanuatu in the wake of Cyclone Pam.

The first aid planes arrived to find scenes of "utter destruction" on the Vanuatu island of Tanna, where residents are in desperate need of emergency supplies.