More from Vanuatu and then back to Scarborough
How long is the wait? Our restaurant with a view Our journey continued in Vanuatu. On L'ORIENT, we refer to our treks into undeveloped places as getting a taste of "village life". On Vanuatu, the outer islands are some of the most remote places we've ever been. We're talking no tourists, no electricity, no roads and only structures made from palm leaves and rope. And lots (I mean lots and lots) of children running around. The stares and instant child mobs we picked up while landing the dinghy ashore were the telltale sign that they don't see cruisers or white people very often, if at all. We were startled by how many kids were around in the middle of the day during the week until we learned that due to a teacher's strike most of the state run schools have been closed... for the past 11 months! Obviously this is a very big problem in a country where 43% of the population is under 18 (in the US that number is 22%). Some children attend religious schools - in...