New Caledonia Gourmet Holiday Destination
Do you want a vacation that is truly extraordinary? Fancy somewhere with a beach and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and ambience of a metropolitan city. A ideal holiday that offers all of this is a trip to the French colony of New Caledonia, situated about halfway between Fiji and Australia.
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 warm weather. If a sailing holiday is what you are seeking for, New Caledonia is based in a part of the Pacific that has the greatest 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 coastline, past numerous small islands that dot the ocean around the New Caledonia. There are also heaps of other outdoor activites such as 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 city, Noumea, also known as the Paris of the Pacific. Noumea features fine gourmet French food and wine along with the other benefits of a active cosmopolitan town. Some of the best restaurants in the South Pacific can be found here. Colonised by France in 1853, New Caledonia has a distinct French influence when it comes to food.
Noumea has over hundred restaurants, 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 specialty of the Island, including spiny lobster, prawns, crab, and mangrove oysters. One of New Caledonia’s national dishes is Bougna, which is fish or chicken, mixed with sweet potatoes and bananas wrapped in banana leaves and then grilled covered in sand on hot stones. For the adventurous traveler on a epicurean vacation, you can try a dish popular with the locals, bat stew.
You can make a vacation to New Caledonia anything you want it to be: a sailing holiday, a gourmet holiday, or a time to just relax by the beach.
