Port Villa

Port Vila, often known as Vila, is the capital and largest city of Vanuatu, located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Port-Vila is the island group's commercial center and is located on Mélé Bay on the southwest coast of Éfaté. Despite its French exterior, the town's population is multicultural, with Ni-Vanuatu, British, French, Chinese, and Vietnamese residents. The town features hospitals, hotels, casinos, marketplaces and shopping areas, a sports stadium, a cultural center, a teacher-training institution, a University of the South Pacific campus, and various meat- and fish-processing businesses.

Port Vila is a breathtakingly concise but forceful city that stands on the gorgeous Vila Bay and a sequence of lagoons, beaches, and off-coast islands. It's a little ragged around the edges, with a few traffic-heavy high ways allowing access to a plethora of souvenirs, shops, and seaside restaurants and cafes with numerous lingering French influences. Underneath this façade is an odd mix of vacationers, cruise ship day-trippers, expats, and yachties, as well as ni-Van drawn from all around the islands. This is Vanuatu's busiest metropolis, offering a dizzying array of travel and adventure activities, as well as numerous superb restaurants, pubs, shops, banks, and marketplaces.

Location: Efate, Shefa, Vanuatu