Whether you're on a tight budget or splashing out, the islands have it all.

Paul Rush follows a trail of bubbles to Champagne Beach on Vanuatu's largest island.

Paul Rush tours Efate Island and meets the smiling face of the Pacific.

Now that Cyclone Lusi has gone, the people of Vanuatu are more keen than ever to welcome tourists. Marty Silk finds a cheerful country.

Downed power lines fell into a nearby paddock in Kaeo, while strong winds caused a tree to topple across a road in Parahaki, north of Whangarei.

Paul Rush takes a cruise to Vanuatu for a rare insight into a true subsistence culture.

A New Zealand resident has died in Vanuatu while diving on a wartime wreck.

Paul Rush visits the gourmet capital of the South Pacific.

Elisabeth Easther finds more to love about Vanuatu on every visit.

Sheriden Rhodes goes deep-sea diving and finds a warship.

Vanuatu's waters hid the remnants of war, discovers Roderick Eime.

This remote cluster of low-lying islands sits off the southern tip of Vanuatu's second-largest island - Malekula. The people of the Maskelyne Islands still get around in wooden dugout outrigger canoes and live much as they have for centuries.

On a remote island in Vanuatu, Tessa Chrisp is won over by the locals' modest way of life and extraordinary warmth and humour.

Delightful locals and sustainability on a shoestring make the tiny island of Pele a dream destination, finds Isobel Marriner.