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Are you looking for a vacation destination that is truly unique? You might be thinking of someplace that provides beaches and sailing opportunities, plus the cuisine and atmosphere of a metropolitan city. A ideal vacation that offers all of this is a trip to the French settlement 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 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 globe. 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 numerous small islands that dot the ocean around the New Caledonia. There are also heaps of other outdoor activites such as 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, Noumea, also known as the Paris of the Pacific. Noumea offers delicate gourmet French food and wine along with the other benefits of a active cosmopolitan town. Some of the world-class restaurants in the South Pacific can be found here. Claimed by France in 1853, New Caledonia has a well-defined French influence when it comes to food.

There are lots of restaurants, 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 vacation, you can sample a dish favourite 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.