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Are you looking for a holiday destination that is rightfully unique? You might be considering of somewhere that provides beaches and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and atmosphere of a metropolitan city. A perfect holiday that offers all of this is a trip to the French settlement 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 looking for, New Caledonia is situated in a part of the Pacific that has the most remarkable coral lagoon in the globe. 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 hoping for a gourmet holiday, New Caledonia has almost everything you could want. New Caledonia’s capital city, Noumea, widely known as the Paris of the Pacific. Noumea features fine gourmet French food and wine along with the other benefits of a bustling cosmopolitan town. The restaurants here are some of the finest in the South Pacific. Colonised by the French in 1853, New Caledonia has a distinct French influence when it comes to food and wine.

Noumea has well over 100 restaurants, ranging from sidewalk cafes to elegant bistros. French cuisine is easy to come by, but other alternatives 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 epicurean vacation, you can try out a dish common with the locals, bat stew.

You can make a vacation to New Caledonia anything you want it to be: a sailing holiday, a gourmet holiday, or a time to just relax on the beaches.