Kavabars or Nakamal?: Kava and that's it!
If you get familiar with some Ni-Vanuatu (which is really not difficult and very likely), and if you are a male (sorry girls and ladies) he will probbaly invite you, around 5 pm, to have some kava.If you are a lady travelling with a male partner, the invitation will be probably extended to you as well, for politeness, but in a different way.The gentleman will be asked to join in a kavabar: usually a stall on one side of the road, with kerosene lamps or candle light, where several men stand in silence, very quiet and relaxed; the owner will pour your kava from a bucket or a basin into your shell, for 100 vt (0.7 euro).You will be told to drink it in a gulp; this is before dinner, at best.Kava is freshly made, every day, from the crushed roots of Piper Methysticum: it tastes of licorice and pepper, it looks like muddy water, leaving a mixed sensation of dumbness and warmth to your lips and...


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