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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

New Caledonia Gourmet Vacation Destination

Looking for a vacation destination that is truly extraordinary? Fancy someplace with a beach and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and ambience of a metropolitan city. A ideal vacation that offers all of this is a trip to the French colony of New Caledonia, situated about halfway between Fiji and Australia.

This island is situated further south compared to other South Pacific islands, benefiting from southeast trade winds, plenty of sunlight 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 greatest 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. Other outdoor activities on the Island are scuba diving, snorkel diving, 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, Noumea, widely 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. You can find some of the South Pacific’s finest restaurants here. Colonized by the French in 1853, New Caledonia has a well-defined French influence when it comes to food.

There are plenty of restaurants, ranging from sidewalk cafes to high-class bistros. French cuisine is easy to come by, but other alternatives 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, mixed with sweet potatoes and bananas wrapped in banana leaves and then baked covered in sand on hot stones. For the adventurous traveler on a epicurean holiday, you can try out 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 on the beaches.

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