Noumea New Caledonia

The 1st stop on our Cruse was the town of Noumea. It is in the country of New Caledonia. It was one of the biggest dumps I have ever been in. I am not sure why the ship even stops there. There are pretty spots there but they are surrounded by a not so pretty town. There was a garbage strike there which wouldn't help the matter any. New Caledonia is a French colony as you can tell by the french flag flying below. It was also very expensive there. It was $16 for a beer in a pub.


They did put on a Christmas play. It was pretty good except it was in french.

One of the stores we dropped into. It was neat because the man in the photo sewed up all the clothes shown in the shop. There were lots of stores that carried these kinds of clothes.

An old church.

The highlight of Noumea was that the ship hired this local dance troop. They did there cultural dance and had a really good fire show. My camerea refused to take a good photo of that.