A Perfect Gourmet Vacation
Do you want a holiday that is truly unique? Fancy somewhere with a beach and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and ambience of a metropolitan city. A ideal vacation that offers all of this is a trip to the French settlement of New Caledonia, located about halfway between Fiji and Australia.
This island is situated further south compared to other South Pacific islands, benefiting from southeast trade winds, lots of sunlight and balmy weather. If a sailing holiday is what you are looking for, New Caledonia is located in a part of the Pacific that has the greatest coral lagoon in the world. Sailing charters are available and with the aid 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 offers other outdoor activities such as scuba diving, snorkel diving, horseback riding, canoeing, and kayaking.
If you were thinking of a gourmet holiday, New Caledonia has almost everything you could want. New Caledonia’s capital, Noumea, widely known as the Paris of the Pacific. Noumea boasts fine gourmet French food and wine along with the other benefits of a bustling cosmo town. Some of the finest restaurants in the South Pacific can be found here. Colonised by the French in 1853, New Caledonia has a distinct French influence when it comes to food.
Noumea has well over hundred palces to eat, ranging from sidewalk cafes to elegant 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, combined with sweet potatoes and bananas wrapped in banana leaves and then cooked covered in sand on hot stones. For the adventurous traveller on a epicurean holiday, you can sample a dish popular with the locals, bat stew.
New Caledonia is the vacation destination you want to be: a sailing holiday, a gourmet holiday, or a time to just relax on the beaches.
