Baie de Jinek

Lifou

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September 21st 2007
My next destination was the island of Lifu in the Loyalty Islands. Again we went there with Betico. It took us around 6 hours to get there. We stopped first on the island of Mare (4 hours) and then we went to Lifu. One way ticket costs 7000 CFP (around 60 EUR). In Lifu we were camping in Motel chez Rachel. It’s a good place for camping, it’s about 100 m from the beach in the city of We (capita ... read more

Oceania » New Caledonia » Loyalty Islands Province

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Settled by both Britain and France during the first half of the 19th century, the island was made a French possession in 1853. It served as a penal colony for four decades after 1864. Agitation for independence during the 1980s and early 1990s has di... ... read more