The following lists just a few of the activities we recommend you do when you visit Santo.
For more information visit the local tourism website Espiritu Santo Tourism Association.
These are some of our favorite activities:
Horse Riding
Our manager Megan also runs the local horse riding at Santo Horse Adventures only a couple of minutes from Tides Reach.
Ride through the forests and finish with a walk through the stunning sandy beach outside of Tides Reach Beach House and Lope Lope. Megan will take all levels of riders and its something we highly recommend.
Contact Megan on (678) 777 4700
Email santohorseadventure@gmail.com
Millennium Cave Tours
This is one of the best rated activities on Santo, and is a fantastic day combining a bush walk, cave tour and floating down a stunning river.
This is a full day tour requiring some level of fitness.
Free pick up is available
Contact the company (678) 547 0957 www.millenniumcave.com
Island Fishing Santo
100% Locally owned and operated. Test out your skills with Fabrice Moderan, who was born on Santo and will take you to some of the best fishing and snorkelling spots on the Island. Fish locally or for game fish in a number of different locations.
Contact Fabrice on (678) 774 0536 or email fabricemoderan@hotmail.com
Champagne Beach and Blue Holes
No visit to Santo is complete without a visit to Champagne beach and some of the stunning blue holes along the way. A number of tour operators run tours or you can drive yourself.
Diving
Santo offers some amazing diving and is a key destination from divers fro around the world. One of the most famous is the SS President Coolidge is close to shore making it easily accessible, and is a large virtually intact shipwreck. The Coolidge was sunk by a friendly mine, and lies n 20-70 meters of calm waters clear waters.
Diving in Santo image courtesy diveplanit.com
Million dollar point is where the Americans drove millions of dollars of jeeps, tanks and other equipment into the ocean after the second world war when agreement could not be reached on their value. This site can explored either by diving or by snorkeling off the beach.
There are a number of other dives including reef dives, and other wreck dives around the island.
A number of professional dive operators work in Santo:
Allan Power Dive Tours
Contact on (678) 36822 or email apower@vanuatu.com.au
Santo Island Dive
Contact on (678) 7758082 www.santodive.com
Coral Quays Fish and Dive Resort Absolute Adventures
Contact on (678) 36257 www.coralquays.com