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Cape Lux Travels Announces Culinary Tour of Vietnam & Cambodia

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Cape Lux Travels is thrilled to introduce the fully escorted A FEAST FOR THE SENSES food tour to Vietnam and Cambodia with acclaimed author Kim Fay.

Los Angeles, CA, April 11, 2013 – Cape Lux Travels is thrilled to introduce the fully escorted A FEAST FOR THE SENSES food tour to Vietnam and Cambodia with acclaimed author Kim Fay. With a focus on the two countries’ greatest attractions—Vietnamese cuisine and the Cambodian temples—this unique tour will offer an authentic insider’s journey by combining Cape Lux Travels’ expertise with Fay’s experience living in, traveling around and writing about Vietnam and the surrounding region for the past eighteen years.

Vietnam boasts one of the world’s most original cuisines, which is characterized by a complex blend of textures and flavors. Fresh and healthy, it varies throughout the country’s northern, central and southern regions, revealing a diversity of culinary and cultural influences. With a maximum of just 14 guests, A FEAST FOR THE SENSES invites you to travel through these regions and meet some of the country’s most lauded French, Vietnamese and Cambodian chefs, who will not only share their secrets—they will also invite you into their kitchens to try your hand at iconic traditional dishes. Thoughtful guided food excursions to restaurants, markets and more will be balanced with free time for making discoveries of your own. Rounding out this trip will be a visit to Cambodia, including exclusive culinary outings and explorations of one of the greatest wonders of the world, the Angkor temples, which are featured in Fay’s novel, The Map of Lost Memories.

Taking place from September 27 to October 10, 2013, A FEAST FOR THE SENSES includes 13 nights in five-star accommodations; breakfast daily, 7 lunches and 13 dinners; 3 cooking classes; internal flights within Asia, air-conditioned transport, entrance fees and much more. Fay and Cape Lux Travels’ founder, Jean Wethmar, will accompany the journey at all times. Rates for this exclusive tour begin at $4,350 USD.

Tour Contact:
Jean Wethmar
Cape Lux Travels
jeanw@thecapeclub.com
+61 (0) 7 3814 5448
www.thecapeclub.com

About the Tour Leaders:
Jean Wethmar is the founder of Cape Lux Travels, specializing in customized, themed, fully escorted luxury tours throughout Asia. Cape Lux Travels works in partnership with Luxury Travel Co. Ltd., Vietnam’s first luxury tour operator and full-service travel agency.

Kim Fay is the author of Communion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam, winner of the World Gourmand Award for Best Asian Cuisine Book in the United States, and The Map of Lost Memories, a 2013 finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. She is also the creator and series editor of the To Asia With Love guidebooks.

Contact:
Jean Wethmar
Cape Lux Travels
12/99 Brookwater Drive
Brookwater, Qld 4300
+61 (0) 7 3814 5448
jeanw@thecapeclub.com
http://www.thecapeclub.com

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Steve Taylor From TravelFoodandDrink.com Goes on His Own Culinary Tour Across Europe

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Brno, Czech Republic, February 23rd 2011 — Less than a day after attending the first European Culinary Tourism Conference in Vienna, Austria Steve Taylor the C.E.O. (Chief Eating Officer) of Boston based TravelFoodandDrink.com will be going on his own culinary tour. His focus will be on eating a national dish, or local specialty in each of the six countries he travels through on the train, all within a time frame of less than 24 hours.

This may not be so easy considering he has less than an hour in most of the countries where the train stops. Plus, the temperatures will be near freezing, there will be a language barrier, and he will be carrying his luggage at all times. His culinary tour will start in the pre-dawn hours in the darkness surrounding the train station in Brno, Czech Republic and end around midnight in Ljubljana, Slovenia where the most popular item on the menu at that time of night is a horseburger. Other stops include Bratislava, Slovakia; Vienna, Austria; Szombothely, Hungary; and Zagreb, Croatia.

Steve doesn’t recommend rushing through countries while on a culinary tour, and all of the countries he is visiting are worth spending time in, and discovering their regional foods and the people that produce them. He could have just stayed on the train and not even breathed the air in some of the countries, but decided instead to “taste” every country that he travels through. He also wants to create more of an awareness for an emerging trend in travel called culinary tourism. His website promotes culinary tourism, and encourages those who travel to seek out local specialties, and eat the national dish of the countries they visit. As Steve says “It’s a great way to preserve their heritage and learn more about the people and their traditions, plus you get to eat some great food with an amazing history”. Learn more about the national dishes and local specialties that Steve ate during his culinary tour once his tour is finished on March 5th.

Contact Details: TravelFoodandDrink.com
38 Dustin Street
Boston, Massachusetts
taylorboston@gmail.com
617-584-7577