Garden Tour
The Secret Gardens is a great value, entertaining and highly educational tour. It's a cross between a Ripley's Believe It Or Not and an outdoor cultural centre with amazing and truly bizarre, but authentic custom stories from around the islands and macabre tales, information and photos from the notorious New Hebrides cannibal years.

Here you will learn everything you need to know about the custom, culture, and history with everything from life size posters of pygmy's and cannibals to historical WW2 photos and artifacts. See carvers at work, learn about Vanuatu's chiefly system inside a real chiefs nasara, explore a custom village, learn all about kava in our kava information centre and see tame wildlife including pigeons, coconut crabs, flying foxes, lorikeets, ducks and wild fowl.

Guides are available to take you around but are not necessary as visitors love wandering around the beautiful gardens reading informative posters. It is a favourite with kids too of all ages and we have a special Kids Club day every Wednesday.

There is a beautiful pond and waterfall to sit and relax. Tea and coffee available.

Open 7 days a week from 9am ­ 4pm. Only vt750pp and vt400 for children. Take a bus from town or book through tour operators. Call 26222 or 47869. Email: secretgarden@vanuatudaily.com

Kava and Custom Tour
Guests come early one hour before the sun goes down and they can explore the popular gardens and learn all about Vanuatu¹s strange customs of old, culture and history.

You will be shown the kava information center where you will learn all about what kava is, see kava plants and learn how it is used for medicinal purposes as a herbal equivalent of Valium, which is a relaxant.

As the sun goes down flaming torches are lit up around the gardens and a fire burns in the chiefs nasara area. Kava has been   prepared the traditional way and is served from a large wooden kava bowl in coconut shells, the traditional way.

Sit and relax around the fire in the nasara lit up with kerosene lanterns, tea lights hanging in the trees and hear custom stories told by locals.

Some delicious local kaikai will be available to taste cooked underground or in the fire and bottled water to rinse your mouth out.

After a few shells you will be relaxed and ready to be delivered straight to your hotel where you will enjoy a great nights sleep. You can purchase packets of instant kava from the gardens to take home as a souvenir.

Held every Tuesday and Thursday evening. When you drink kava you do not like loud noise and bright lights so this tour is not for children. Arrive at 5pm ­ leave at 7---30pm

Cost vt1200pp. Take some insect repellent. Bookings essential on 26222 / 47869

Jenny's Island Feast Night
This is a fantastic and unique island feast that has been featured on Australian Channel 9 Fresh TV and in Australian magazines.

Guest arrive before the sun goes down and wander around the beautiful Secret Gardens.

As the sun goes down flaming torches are lit up and you sample kava in our authentic chiefs nasara where a fire is burning and this special area is lit up with lanterns and tea lights hanging from the trees. Custom stories are told around the fire.

After a few shells of kava, the girls will take out the food from the underground oven explaining how it is cooked the traditional way with coconut.

Food is laid out in our WW2 Jenny's Jungle Joint restaurant with slabs of rough-cut logs as tables and includes tasty fish, chicken, red meat and delicious local vegetables and fruit. Rice and salads are available, Juice is also supplied.

Entertainment will be from the local village string band and the Bali Hai girls. You can choose to sit around the cozy fire in the nasara, listen and dance to string band music in the restaurant or sit around the pond area listening to the waterfall.
 
Local beer and wine can be purchased or guests can bring their own alcohol.

Cost includes hotel pick up and drop off, tour around the gardens, kava and food. Alcohol is not included.

Held on Thursday. Arrive 5pm, tour gardens until kava at 6pm and dinner around 7pm ­ 9pm return home. Cost vt2500 and vt1500 for children

Minimum numbers apply. Bookings essential on 26222 / 47869