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This page,    Noumea downtown.
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Centre of the town. Also on the Anse Vata sea side.
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The downtown area of Nouméa preserved partially its low buildings of the colonial epoch. Small buildings stands here and there and there was only one tower in year 2000, and an administrative building which was called, " the aquarium ". The aquarium has at least one advantage: it stacks a certain spot in Nouméa and if you are lost, you can seek it (in the centre on the picture).

The museum of the city shows a large range of top hut arrows, sculptures and other adornments, axes, bamboos engravings and petroglyphs. Also a Kanak hut.

kanak hut top arrow

A gallery is devoted to the Lapita potteries.

Doc. NC tourism

Left hand map : setting of the market and the quay of the Moselle are specified, as well as the beaches. The centre of the city stands on a square facing the harbour, where are moored both the boats to be rented and the shuttle boats for the islands (Loyauté island and île des Pins island).

The market..

..Rasping the coconut.

You can get a coconut grated on the spot for "the fish à la Tahitienne", Tahitian way (*), or for the coconut punch to drink before.

(*) marinated with green lemon.

Some stalls (click).


Go and see coconut tree crab, the coloured lobsters, called "porcelains".. little sharks..

ignammes, tarots, manioc, sweet potatoes, chouchoutes and the strange oranges. 		On the same market square, the quay "de Moselle" offer boats for the small islands "phare Amédée" (headlight) and "le ponton", near the reef).

There are also proposals for bots rentals or big fishing ; who knows, you could get a good surprise.. like below.

A market square very successful which one can attend assiduously: A true pleasure.

Not to be missed, Tahitian groups (small extract " of a guardian of the Camargue"), nor the curios.

Very close to, a pleasant restaurant for having lunch (on the left on the photograph). If it is still there for you..

A small click for a great shock ?
 
Delicate person, keep away.


The shopping area and coconut square..
General sight of the city centre and the market square. 

 


shop "marquise" detail, which was a butchery in its glorious days (Alma street).


The Alma street and its trade..


Magnificent flamboyant tree at the far end up cocotier (coconut) square. Lots of them have been, mainly along the street that line the square.
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Famous royal palm trees, in the edge of the coconuts square.

 A sumptuous corner of the "place des cocotiers (coconuts square) close to a little mall centre and " the Chineses " (on the right) where you will find clothing and curios.
clothing and curios


Place des cocotiers,  at the bottom,
 stepping up ro the kiosk. 		back sight of the "place des cocotiers". kanaks like to sit down and rest there, in the shade of trees ; some have a light meal there, during the pause of the lunch.

Quick meals

What orders these ladies kanaks "popinées" (women) dressed in mission robes ?


sight of Nouméa towards the beaches. (strait ahead this view)
At the far end the cocotiers square, on the right then left, start the road of the "Vallée des Colons" which leads to the north of Nouméa. This road passes close to the mont Montravel (Montravel mount, upper left of picture)), whose name stems from Tardy de Montravel. See "Nouméa".

view of former Nouméa


Southern Nouméa (beaches)


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