Food Travel to New Caledonia
Are you looking for a holiday destination that is rightfully breathtaking? You might be considering of someplace that offers beaches 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, located between Australia and Fiji.
As New Caledonia is located 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 thinking to have, New Caledonia is located in a part of the Pacific that has the most remarkable 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 coastline, past numerous small islands that dot the ocean around the New Caledonia. There are also plenty of other outdoor activites like 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, is often referred to as the Paris of the Pacific. Noumea boasts 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. Colonised by France in 1853, New Caledonia has a well-defined French influence when it comes to food.
Noumea has over 100 restaurants, ranging from sidewalk cafes to elegant 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 the national dishes is Bougna, which is fish or chicken, mixed with sweet potatoes and bananas wrapped in banana leaves and then cooked covered in sand on hot stones. For the adventurous traveler on a gastronome vacation, you can try a dish favourite with the locals, bat stew.
You can make a holiday to New Caledonia anything you want it to be: a sailing holiday, a gourmet holiday, or a time to just relax on the beaches.
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