A Perfect Gourmet Vacation
Do you want a holiday that is truly unique? Fancy someplace with a beach and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and atmosphere of a metropolitan city. A perfect holiday that offers all of this is a trip to the French settlement of New Caledonia, located between Australia and Fiji.
This island is located farther south compared to other South Pacific islands, benefiting from southeast trade winds, lots of sunshine and balmy weather. If a sailing holiday is what you are seeking for, New Caledonia is located in a part of the Pacific that has the largest coral lagoon in the world. Sailing charters are easy to find 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. There are also lots of other outdoor activites like scuba diving, snorkel diving, horseback riding, canoeing, and kayaking.
If you were thinking of a gourmet holiday, you can get everything you could want on New Caledonia. New Caledonia’s capital city, 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 cosmopolitan town. You can find some of the South Pacific’s nicest restaurants here. Colonised by the French in 1853, New Caledonia has a well-defined French influence when it comes to food and wine.
Noumea has over hundred palces to eat, ranging from sidewalk cafes to elegant bistros. French cuisine is easy to come by, but other selections 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 the national dishes is Bougna, which is fish or chicken, mixed with sweet potatoes and bananas wrapped in banana leaves and then steamed covered in sand on hot stones. For the adventurous traveler on a gourmet vacation, you can try out 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 on the beaches.
