Food Travel to New Caledonia
Do you want a vacation that is truly unique? Fancy somewhere with a beach and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and atmosphere of a metropolitan city. A perfect holiday that provides all of this is a trip to the French colony of New Caledonia, situated 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 looking for, New Caledonia is located in a part of the Pacific that has the biggest coral lagoon in the globe. Sailing charters are available and with the help 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. The island also offers other outdoor activities such as scuba diving, snorkel diving, horseback riding, canoeing, and kayaking.
If you were thinking of a gourmet holiday, you can find everything you could want on New Caledonia. New Caledonia’s capital city, Noumea, also known as the Paris of the Pacific. Noumea boasts fine gourmet French food and wine along with the other benefits of a bustling cosmopolitan town. Some of the best restaurants in the South Pacific can be found here. Claimed by France in 1853, New Caledonia has a distinct French influence when it comes to food.
Noumea has well over hundred 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 speciality 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 grilled covered in sand on hot stones. For the adventurous traveler on a gastronome holiday, you can sample a dish popular 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 by the beach.
