Food Travel to New Caledonia
Do you want a vacation that is truly unique? Fancy someplace with a beach and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and ambiance of a metropolitan city. A ideal vacation that provides all of this is a trip to the French colony of New Caledonia, situated 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 looking for, New Caledonia is situated in a part of the Pacific that has the greatest coral lagoon in the world. Sailing charters are freely available and with the assistance 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, snorkeling, 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 city, Noumea, also known as the Paris of the Pacific. Noumea features delicate gourmet French food and wine along with the other benefits of a bustling cosmo town. You can find some of the South Pacific’s best restaurants here. Colonized by France in 1853, New Caledonia has a well-defined French influence when it comes to food and wine.
There are lots of restaurants, 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 specialty 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 traveler on a gourmet holiday, you can sample a dish popular 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.
