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Vanuatu is the only country in the world that boasts more
blue holes along the eastern side of an island, Espiritu
Santo, than any other place in the world?
Espiritu Santo santo has the largest number of blue holes
in Vanuatu, and Efate has one.
Bungee
jumping was invented by Oxford University’s Dangerous Sports
Club. They were inspired by watching Indigenous people of
Vanuatu jump from 100-foot towers made of tree branches
with vines tied to their ankles. For centuries men on Pentecost
Island in Vanuatu practiced nagol – land diving.
Country most at risk of experiencing natural disasters according
to the 2020 World Risk Report, compiled by the United Nations
Vanuatu is home to one of the world’s most active volcanoes.
Mount Yasur, considered to be the world’s most accessible
active volcano.
One of very few countries without a standing army
The English word ‘taboo’ comes from Vanuatu (Not sure but
many think so)
Kava is a traditional mildly narcotic drink in Vanuatu.
To decline kava when offered it is to decline friendship.
One of the happiest countries in the world.
It is good that "cannibalism" once found in Vanuatu
is over (Canniabalism means (Cannibalism means eating of
human flesh by a human being) |
