Discover Vanuatu's hidden jewels on and around Aneityum:

For many years, tourists have discovered Aneityum via Cruise Liners dropping in for day tours of Mystery Island. Now you can enjoy all that Mystery Island AND Aneityum has to offer by accessing both islands via Port Vila and Tanna:

Mystery Island - offers visitors a 'Robinson Crusoe' style gettaway which can be customised to your every need. Activities and places to go include:
  • Reef Snorkeling - Mystery Island is an atoll with expanses of calm waters protected from the Pacific Ocean by the outer reef. Depths vary from very shallow - 0.5M to approximately 6M in some areas. The waters surrounding the island are a marine sanctuary and therefore there are no fishing activities inside the outer reef. Consequently there are myriads of fish and mollusc species to be viewed and photographed.


  • Beach Walking - Mystery Island is approximately 800 metres in length and approximately 70 metres wide. A leisurely stroll will see you walking around the island in about 1 hour and 40 minutes (depending on your level of relaxation, the number of photographs you stop to take, or the number of different views on offer that you wish to simply stop to enjoy and appreciate).


  • Mystery Island Markets - when Cruise Liners visit Mystery Island for Day Visits, the Market Place springs into life with Stalls offering many locally made trinkets and Lobsters cooked right before your eyes. There are activities such as live String Bands, fish feeding, sail canoe rides and guided snorkeling adventures around various locations inside the reef.
On the 'mainland' which is Aneityum itself, there are many experiences to be enjoyed both on land and on water:
  • Guided tours of Missionary John Geddes artifacts and ruins (circa 1840).
  • Guided Photographic Tour of the island's 84 species of Orchids
  • Reef Fishing - Aneityum has excellent reefs lurking outside the Marine Park
  • Game Fishing - the open waters around Aneityum attracts many species of pelagic fish including Wahoo, Spanish Mackerel, Mahi Mahi (Mai Mai), Yellow Fin Tuna and Marlin.
  • Guided Tour of ancient Petroglyphs (rock carvings)
  • Witness pumice stone rising to the surface over an active underwater volcano (occurs intermittently)
  • Visit Blow Holes along the rocky coastline