{"id":15193,"date":"2025-10-09T02:24:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=15193"},"modified":"2025-10-09T02:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:24:53","slug":"atw-1-day-21-noumea-new-caledonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/09\/atw-1-day-21-noumea-new-caledonia\/","title":{"rendered":"ATW-1 Day 21: Noumea, New Caledonia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Noumea, New Caledonia, from the Luminosa<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

New Caledonia. Another place that I never expected to see. But, after breakfast with Panama and Amy, we saw it. The city, anyway. I am sure there is much more to the country than what we saw in our walking tour, but we are being very frugal – we still have over 4 weeks to go – so walking around suits us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This seems to be a nice city. We saw some homeless people and quite a few vacant stores so it doesn\u2019t seem like the economy is booming. But it is not \u201cthird world\u201d either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We did a lot of window shopping a walked up a small hill to a pretty cathedral. And I had a beer at the port. But one of the reasons I got the beer – other than to slake my thirst – was to get access to the internet. New Caledonia was the first place we have visited on any cruise where our T-Mobile plan didn\u2019t give us internet access. Phone calls were also VERY expensive – $4.19 per minute. Text messages were 50 cents each. I sent a few text messages before I realized how expensive they were. We certainly didn\u2019t call anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Us in the cruise terminal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cathredal in Noumea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlene at the harbor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We were back on board by mid-afternoon. The rest of the day was quiet. I did some reading. We played some cards (I won both games – a rarity).. And, of course, we visited the casino (lose $40, down $810).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Caledonia. Another place that I never expected to see. But, after breakfast with Panama and Amy, we saw it. The city, anyway. I am sure there is much more to the country than what we saw in our walking tour, but we are being very frugal – we still have over 4 weeks to … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[121,131,114,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atw","category-atw-1","category-cruise","category-new-caledonia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3X3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15198,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193\/revisions\/15198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}