{"id":11357,"date":"2016-05-03T03:04:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T01:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=11357"},"modified":"2017-06-01T03:33:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T01:33:33","slug":"better-than-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/travel-stories\/better-than-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Better than Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title says it all already \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Sportmagazin, one of Europe&#8217;s leading industry magazines in German<\/strong>, was curious and wanted to know all about my latest discoveries and if there was a place that\u00a0beat everything else I&#8217;ve seen so far&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was the perfect timing as I had only just come back from an epic trip to New Caledonia, where I had scored some unreal wave conditions on the outer reefs of the largest lagoon in the world!<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not only the amazing wave conditions that make New Caledonia one of the most fascinating places to kite that I have ever visited. It\u2019s an even more picture-perfect paradise for flat-water wind sport lovers and thus all other disciplines like freestyle, foiling, racing etc. With an endless number of spots for all levels and ambitions, a truly magical wind statistic of 220 windy days per year, little islands that boast absolutely perfect kiting grounds into all directions, a semi-tropical climate, toasty warm water temperatures, spectacular landscapes with mountains and unspoilt beaches, New Caledonia is the closest kitesurfers can get to paradise on earth! I had such an amazing time, I extended my return-ticket back to Australia twice \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read about my trip in German below, just download the PDF!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written several articles about this trip to &#8220;Kite-Heaven&#8221;, here&#8217;s another one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/travel-stories\/gruner-fleck-im-sudpazifik\/\"><strong>in German on 12 pages in Kiteboarding Mag,<\/strong><\/a> the French version, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/portfolio\/publications\/travel-stories\/a-new-case-of-addiction\/\"><strong>English on 8 pages in Kiteworld<\/strong><\/a>, and for Spanish click here for the article in Surf a Vela.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy the articles.<br \/>\nCheers,<br \/>\nGabi xx<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title says it all already \ud83d\ude42 The Sportmagazin, one of Europe&#8217;s leading industry magazines in German, was curious and wanted to know all about my latest discoveries and if there was a place that\u00a0beat everything else I&#8217;ve seen so far&#8230; It was the perfect timing as I had only just come back from an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1960,1966,1962,1759,1760,730,840,480,52,611,42],"class_list":["post-11357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-stories","tag-caledonia","tag-chabaud","tag-gill","tag-hannes","tag-kropik","tag-lagoon","tag-new","tag-paradise","tag-sportmagazin","tag-surf","tag-waves"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11368,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11357\/revisions\/11368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}