Vaiaku
Vaiaku is a village located on the southern coast of the island of Fongafale in the atoll of Funafuti in Tuvalu, which is home to most of the major administrative buildings.
Vaiaku is a village located on the southern coast of the island of Fongafale in the atoll of Funafuti in Tuvalu, which is home to most of the major administrative buildings. However, it is not the official capital, as that title belongs to the entirety of Funafuti.
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Worth seeing in and around Vaiaku
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Tuvalu Sports Ground
Tuvalu Sports Ground is a multi-use stadium in Funafuti, Tuvalu. It is currently used mostly for football and rugby matches.
300 m · stadium · Wikipedia - 02Teone Church
The Teone Church also alternatively known as the Catholic Church of Teone or the Catholic Centre of Teone, is a religious building in Vaiaku on the south coast of Fongafale in the atoll of Funafuti, which is the economic center of Tuvalu in Oceania.
0 m · church in Vaiaku, Tuvalu · Wikipedia
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Getting to Vaiaku
- Stations
- Funafuti International Airport, 500 m
- Wallis Island → VaiakuTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Nadi → Vaiaku1049 km · quickest by road, 30h 31m · $42–60
- Nausori → Vaiaku1059 km · quickest by road, 26h 32m · $26–36
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Vaiaku
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Vaiaku. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Vaiaku – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Vaiaku
- Tekavatoetoesettlement in Fongafale, Funafuti, Tuvalu2.1 km
- Teonevillage on the island Fongafale, Tuvalu2.5 km