Gourmet Travel New Caledonia
Looking for a holiday destination that is truly breathtaking? Fancy somewhere with a beach and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and atmosphere of a metropolitan city. A ideal holiday that offers all of this is a trip to the French colony of New Caledonia, located 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 balmy 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 biggest coral lagoon in the globe. Sailing charters are freely 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. There are also lots of other outdoor activites 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 city, Noumea, also known as the Paris of the Pacific. Noumea offers delicate gourmet French food and wine along with the other benefits of a active cosmopolitan town. The restaurants here are some of the finest in the South Pacific. Claimed by France in 1853, New Caledonia has a well-defined French influence when it comes to food and wine.
There are plenty of places 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 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 try out a dish favourite with the locals, bat stew.
New Caledonia is the holiday destination you want to be: a sailing holiday, a gourmet holiday, or a time to just relax by the beach.
