New Caledonia Gourmet Vacation Destination
Are you looking for a vacation destination that is really unique? Fancy somewhere with a beach and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and ambience of a metropolitan city. A ideal holiday that has all of this is a trip to the French colony of New Caledonia, situated between Australia and Fiji.
As New Caledonia is located farther south than many of the other islands of the South Pacific, its climate benefits from southeast trade winds, plenty of sun, and balmy weather. If a sailing holiday is what you like, New Caledonia is based in a part of the Pacific that has the most remarkable coral lagoon in the globe. Sailing charters are freely available and with the help of the trade winds you can sail out of the capital city of Noumea along the coastal line, past the many small islands that dot the ocean around the New Caledonia. The island also has other outdoor activities such as scuba diving, snorkeling, horseback riding, canoeing, and kayaking.
If you were hoping for a gourmet holiday, you can get everything you could want on New Caledonia. New Caledonia’s capital, Noumea, is often referred to as the Paris of the Pacific. Noumea boasts delicate gourmet French food and wine along with the other benefits of a bustling cosmo town. The restaurants here are some of the finest in the South Pacific. Colonized by the French in 1853, New Caledonia has a distinct French influence when it comes to food and wine.
Noumea has well over 100 palces to eat, ranging from sidewalk cafes to high-class bistros. French cuisine is easy to come by, but other options include Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and African food. Seafood is a speciality of the Island, including spiny lobster, prawns, crab, and mangrove oysters. One of Noumea’s national dishes is Bougna, which is fish or chicken, mixed with sweet potatoes and bananas wrapped in banana leaves and then baked covered in sand on hot stones. For the adventurous traveler on a epicurean vacation, you can sample a dish common with the locals, bat stew.
You can make a holiday to New Caledonia anything you want it to be: a sailing holiday, a gourmet holiday, or a time to just relax by the beach.
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