Pacific Pearl - Noumea, Saturday

Heading into Noumea!

Deck 14 has the best views

We've docked - time for breakfast!

We've been to Noumea a few times now on cruises but it is still so exciting seeing land and then watching the ship sail in and dock so smoothly! As we'd been here before we didn't need to rush off the ship. We hadn't booked any shore tours and just planned to wander around for a bit, see what was new.

Looking over towards the Cargo Terminal (the Carnival Spirit docks there)

Off the ship and we've got our map, no getting lost!

The Pearl from dockside

New ChinaTown - they were working on it last time we were here (May 2013)

Noumea isn't the prettiest of cities, it does have a lovely harbour and there are a few beaches not far from the ship. There is a hop on hop off bus which you can catch to do an hour mini tour of the city. This takes you past a few places for swimming so we might go there on our next cruise :-) We did the hop on hop off bus last time we were here (May 2013) and did the whole circuit. It's an inexpensive way to see a bit more of Noumea. It takes about an hour. As the name suggests you can hop on hop ff along the way, there were about 7 different stops.

Casino Supermarket - just across from the Cruise Terminal

Nice butt!

Lunch! I loved their stirfrys!

Deck 14 - Charlottes Web on the Big Screen

After the movie we headed down to deck 7 for sailaway. It is a lovely harbour to sail out of and the weather was perfect.

Bye Noumea

After sailaway we headed to the Orient for a glass of wine. We sat outside the Orient and people watched. It was also near to the Art Gallery quite interesting to see how many people buy art on board a cruise ship! You can mark out any paintings you are interested in and then during the next auction, on most sea days, they would bring them out. 

Whinge and a wine time

Just outside the Orient

Next stop Lifou!