Eat your Way Around the World: Top 4 Foodie Adventures

There are many reasons why we visit different destinations—from scenic beauty to music and architecture. But did you know that among the top vacation choices is food. Actually, it is the third reason we go, according to a recent U.N. World Tourism Organization report on gastronomy and visitation. Since food helps define a destination’s culture, it makes sense.

This year, explore your food senses while you explore all the adventure that each of these top foodie experience promise. It is a recipe for vacation success!

1. Fly-Fishing in Belize

Find yourself in Belcamp in Belize, fly fishing for tarpon, snook and bonefish in the heart of Belcampo’s agricultural center. Your reward? Farm-to-table dining with the farm’s freshest bounty coupled with locally caught fish and seafood. The tour is offered by Frontiers.

2. Explore Machu Picchu

Savor the flavors of Peru on a culinary tour with Adventure Tours. Explore the Sacred Valle and while there go into the kitchen for a cooking demonstration with the destination’s finest chefs as they prepare traditional Pachamanca in an earthen oven lined with hot stones.

3. Ride on the Ranch

Play cowboy all day long at the 25,000-acre Red Reflet Ranch in Ten Sleep, Wyoming with horseback rides and cattle drives, then dine on gourmet cowboy cuisine each night, delivered straight from the ranch’s organic gardens and beef.

4. Sicily Cycling

No better way to burn off calories so you can eat more than a cycling trip. On this cycling tour with Tourissimo, take in all sights, scents and flavors of western Sicily while riding along with two celebrity chefs who will also join local chefs in preparing some very special meals. (Photo courtesy of Tourissimo)