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Looking for a vacation destination that is truly breathtaking? Fancy someplace with a beach and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and atmosphere of a metropolitan city. A perfect vacation that provides all of this is a trip to the French colony of New Caledonia, situated between Australia and Fiji.

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 balmy weather. If a sailing holiday is what you are thinking to have, 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. 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, you can find everything you could want on New Caledonia. New Caledonia’s capital city, Noumea, is often referred to as the Paris of the Pacific. Noumea features fine gourmet French food and wine along with the other benefits of a active cosmo town. Some of the world-class 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.

Noumea has well over hundred palces to eat, ranging from sidewalk cafes to high-class bistros. French cuisine is easy to come by, but other options 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, combined with sweet potatoes and bananas wrapped in banana leaves and then baked covered in sand on hot stones. For the adventurous traveller on a gourmet vacation, you can taste a dish common 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.