Gourmet Holiday to New Caledonia
Are you looking for a vacation destination that is truly breathtaking? Fancy someplace with a beach and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and ambiance of a metropolitan city. A perfect holiday that provides all of this is a trip to the French settlement of New Caledonia, situated about halfway between Fiji and Australia.
As New Caledonia is situated farther south than many of the other islands of the South Pacific, its climate benefits from southeast trade winds, plenty of sun, and warm weather. If a sailing holiday is what you are intending to have, New Caledonia is based in a part of the Pacific that has the largest coral lagoon in the world. Sailing charters are freely available and with the assistance of the trade winds you can sail out of the capital city of Noumea along the coastal line, past numerous small islands that dot the ocean around the New Caledonia. Other outdoor activities on the Island are scuba diving, snorkeling, horseback riding, canoeing, and kayaking.
If you were hoping for 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 features fine gourmet French food and wine along with the other benefits of a bustling cosmopolitan town. The restaurants here are some of the finest in the South Pacific. Colonized by France in 1853, New Caledonia has a well-defined French influence when it comes to food.
Noumea has over hundred palces to eat, ranging from sidewalk cafes to elegant bistros. French cuisine is easy to come by, but other alternatives include Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and African food. Seafood is a specialty 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 baked covered in sand on hot stones. For the adventurous traveller on a gourmet holiday, you can taste 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.
