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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

Weddings in Vanuatu

Vanuatu has long been a popular wedding destination for couples wanting to elope, those seeking to avoid a huge financial commitment to their big day or people marrying for the second time round. These days, there is an ever-increasing trend for couples, who prefer smaller, or more intimate weddings, to choose Vanuatu as the location for their wedding. Vanuatu is very much the preferred choice for many couples wanting to find inspiration away from home or simply to escape the stress and expense of planning such a significant event themselves.

Vanuatu testimony

I felt automatically at home in Vanuatu and, as luck would have it, Annie was offered a job teaching at Port Vila International School. We decided that it would be an adventure, especially for the kids (then aged 7 and 3). Our 12-month contract extended to three fantastic years, during which time I got to write a lot, including my travel book on Australia, The Small Guide to A Big Country.

After leaving Vanuatu I bought a travel agent's licence to specialize in taking people, particularly honeymooners to this fascinating and rewarding part of the world. What I thought would be a hobby quickly became a business and in early 2004 I visited the Cook Islands and fell in love with another Pacific destination. ---Norm Goldman-----

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when the market for phone-porn became a booming industry a decade ago, many of those businesses set up shop in Vanuatu. Ultimately, the authorities there chased them away, but the aftereffect was that Vanuatu inherited a very sophisticated telecommunications infrastructure. If ever a high-volume Internet business wanted to establish itself in a tax haven with lower-

Vanuatu information

Vanuatu - is a group of islands north of New Caledonia, southeast of the Solomon Islands and west of the Fijian Islands in the South Pacific.

It is a beautiful, peaceful country Vanuatu has been independent since 1980. If you would like to move there you are required to make a positive contribution to the economy. This means investing US$50,000 in an approved investment and also lodge an immigration bond to pay for your repatriation should you make a nuisance of yourself. You can opt to invest the US$50,000 in real estate, however, you cannot own land there. You instead purchase a 55 year lease that is renewable.

The people of Vanuatu speak Pidgin, English and French. The country is democratic and there is no income tax.Than-usual start-up costs, Vanuatu became the ideal place to do it!

CONCLUSION

The list of the happiest countries in the world was headed by the island state Vanuatu located in the Pacific Ocean. According to the rating the worst situation is in African countries and industrially advanced countries. Russia took the 172nd place from 178 possible in “The Happy Planet Index”. From the republics of the former USSR, Estonians and Ukrainians feel unhappier than Russians (173rd and 174th places accordingly).