Food Travel to New Caledonia
Are you looking for a vacation destination that is really unique? You might be thinking of somewhere that offers beaches and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and ambience of a metropolitan city. A perfect holiday that offers all of this is a trip to the French settlement of New Caledonia, located about halfway between Fiji and Australia.
As New Caledonia is situated further south than many of the other islands of the South Pacific, its climate benefits from southeast trade winds, plenty of sun, and warm weather. If a sailing holiday is what you are looking for, New Caledonia is situated in a part of the Pacific that has the biggest 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 coastal line, past the many small islands that dot the ocean around the New Caledonia. The island also has other outdoor activities such as scuba diving, snorkel diving, horseback riding, canoeing, and kayaking.
If you were thinking of a gourmet holiday, New Caledonia has loads to offer. New Caledonia’s capital, Noumea, also known as the Paris of the Pacific. Noumea offers fine gourmet French food and wine along with the other benefits of a bustling cosmopolitan town. Some of the finest restaurants in the South Pacific can be found here. Colonized by the French in 1853, New Caledonia has a well-defined French influence when it comes to food.
There are great deal of restaurants, ranging from sidewalk cafes to high-class 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 Noumea’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 traveller on a gastronome vacation, you can try out a dish common 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.
