ADVENTURE ISLANDS
With its cloud-topped peaks, hidden green valleys, lagoons and the sweet fragrance of the tiare flower, New Caledonia is the Pacific you’ve always imagined. There’s a charming mix of French and Melanesian culture: warm hospitality sitting beside European elegance, gourmet food beneath palm trees, sand, resorts and bungalows. And it’s a tropical playground of rainforest and reefs, where adventures are writ large on ridiculously untouched landscapes. Read on for five ways to channel your inner explorer while seeing all corners of this incredible archipelago.
Swim with the fishes
Covering 1.3 million square kilometres, New Caledonia’s Natural Park of the Coral Sea protects the world’s second-longest double-barrier reef and the world’s largest marine lagoon, surrounding the main island of
