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Are you looking for a vacation destination that is truly breathtaking? Fancy someplace with a beach and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and ambience of a metropolitan city. A ideal vacation that offers 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 balmy weather. If a sailing holiday is what you fancy, New Caledonia is situated in a part of the Pacific that has the largest 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 coastal line, past the many small islands that dot the ocean around the New Caledonia. There are also lots of other outdoor activites like scuba diving, snorkel diving, horseback riding, canoeing, and kayaking.

If you were thinking of 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 boasts fine gourmet French food and wine along with the other benefits of a active cosmo town. You can find some of the South Pacific’s nicest restaurants here. Colonised by France in 1853, New Caledonia has a distinct French influence when it comes to food.

There are great deal of places to eat, ranging from sidewalk cafes to high-class 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, combined 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 try a dish favourite 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 by the beach.