New Caledonia by Daniele Somenzi
Stato: NEW CALEDONIA (NC)
New Caledonia (Pacific)
The DC 10 UTA lands on time after 4 hours' flight from Sydney, this after the Air New Zealand was the only airline in the world that you allowed to go about the world without changing the company. and this precisely because the territory of New Caledonia and French Polynesia as the French, here is the French Pacific, but almost all goods coming from France by air or by ship, this is why prices are so high on the island, such as in Polynesia and even in Japan if you want.
Michela and I take a white fiat a rental for a couple of days, seems to esere here in france, not only speaks in French, but also the road signs is obviously written in French.
Many people also come here to visit the adjacent island of pines, is strange in the middle of the equatorial Pacific warm finding pines.
We we will venture north of the island side face Australia for instance, in search of a beach, which is not only mangrove trees there are, however, that I saw for the first time. go with the tide dancer, gives nourishment to these strange plants, are the only living with fresh water and salt water.
We head inside, on the mountains, the land here is very red, reminds me a lot of Australia, certainly millions of years ago, New Caledonia was stuck to the great land of kangaroos.
Return to Noumea, the capital and sleep nell'ostello youth on duty, there are many other nationalities for backpakers mostly British and Australian as well as American and some French, but no Italians.
Walk the next day for the city to understand and take flight with even just a coffee, you pay a part, un'uovo needed for 2 euros.
There are many foreign tourists in transit today, and soon understand why a cruise ship is stuck in port. I would like to make a one day, I thought.
The shops along the promenade are the typical that there are also a forte dei marmi, only that prices are much higher, even here we still are our most popular signatures, Benetton etc..
Going southward, we find a beach to relax, stay until sunset, beautiful sunset pictures with and serenity of the place.
A bed for the second night, the hostel is a little full of people, too much confusion.
Here it is French territory, even the hospitals are well equipped and advanced, Who is wealthy and lives in the outlying islands like the Vanuatu or Tonga, is here to get work or to seek treatment. In 1853 New Caledonia became a French penal colony, in practice, as did the Australians.
The native Melanesian Kanak, demanding independence from the French for decades already, and it was decided that there will be a referendum by 2018, but given that the natives are 40% of the population, that will be difficult to obtain.
The MC donnel douglas DC 10 UTA comes from Sydney and takes us away dall'Isola French
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