A Perfect Gourmet Vacation
Do you want a holiday that is truly extraordinary? Fancy somewhere with a beach and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and ambiance of a metropolitan city. A ideal holiday that provides all of this is a trip to the French colony of New Caledonia, situated between Australia and Fiji.
As New Caledonia is situated further 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 located in a part of the Pacific that has the most remarkable 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 coastline, past numerous small islands that dot the ocean around the New Caledonia. The island also has 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 delicate gourmet French food and wine along with the other benefits of a bustling cosmopolitan town. You can find some of the South Pacific’s best restaurants here. Claimed by the French in 1853, New Caledonia has a well-defined French influence when it comes to food and wine.
Noumea has well over hundred palces to eat, ranging from sidewalk cafes to high-class bistros. French cuisine is easy to come by, but other choices 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 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 traveller on a gastronome vacation, you can try out a dish popular 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.
