Gourmet Travel New Caledonia
Are you looking for a holiday destination that is really unique? Fancy somewhere with a beach and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and ambience of a metropolitan city. A perfect vacation that has all of this is a trip to the French settlement of New Caledonia, located about halfway between Fiji and Australia.
As New Caledonia is located further 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 are seeking for, New Caledonia is based in a part of the Pacific that has the most remarkable coral lagoon in the globe. 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. Other outdoor activities on the Island are 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 active cosmo town. The restaurants here are some of the finest in the South Pacific. Colonized by France in 1853, New Caledonia has a distinct French influence when it comes to food.
There are great deal of places 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 New Caledonia’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 traveler on a gourmet vacation, you can sample a dish favourite 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 by the beach.
