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Do you want a holiday that is truly unique? You might be considering of somewhere that provides beaches and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and ambiance of a metropolitan city. A ideal vacation that has all of this is a trip to the French colony of New Caledonia, situated about halfway between Fiji and Australia.

As New Caledonia is located 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 fancy, New Caledonia is located in a part of the Pacific that has the biggest coral lagoon in the world. Sailing charters are easy to find 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. 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, also 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. Some of the finest 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 and wine.

Noumea has over 100 palces to eat, 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 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, mixed with sweet potatoes and bananas wrapped in banana leaves and then steamed covered in sand on hot stones. For the adventurous traveller on a epicurean holiday, you can try out a dish popular 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.