Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Port Vila

We're slowly getting the pictures from our trip downloaded. Here's a sample from Port Vila (which you of course knew is the capital of Vanuatu).

While I never got to go swimming, at least I had a good view of the harbor from my meeting (incidentally, this picture makes Port Vila look far less chaotic than it actually is):


Gretchen took a ferry to a nearby island one day and made a couple of new friends:


One of the most fascinating things we saw was the market, which caters primarily to local people and is open 24 hours--the women working there (and they were all women) sleep, often with their children, on the floor next to their food stalls. It's dimly lit, but you can get a sense of it here:


There were all sorts of exotic tropical fruits and vegetables for sale, as well as these beautiful flowers: