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If your dream tour is about adventure, nature, cycling, history and culture, cooking, wine tasting, dining and culinary, shopping, museums and zoos, horse riding sports events, theaters/shows, theme parks, walking and hiking, water sports, whales and dolphins, snorkeling, motor-boating, or sailing; then let this site put color and sparkle into your next destination.

If you don’t speak a foreign language, don’t want to spend a fortune, not interested in studying maps for hours and deciding where to eat – let an escorted tour solve your problems. Click on Specialty Travel, Unusal Vacations, & Adventure Travel link above. See additional travel below.

ENRICHMENT & SPA RETREAT

Experiential learning, Spa, & Wellness Retreats For Body, Mind, &Soul │ La Dolce Vita Retreats
Find specialty travel with experiential learning, spa, and wellness retreats, to enhance the body, mind, and spirit at La Dolce Vita Retreats. Each retreat is a journey of enrichment for women and takes place at the most captivating European locations that provide nurturing and supportive environments.

These specialty travel retreats are held separately at each of the following locations: Cote d Azur, France; Portofino, Italy; Amalfi Coast, Italy; Tuscany (Florence), Italy; Harbour Island, Bahamas.

Educational workshops to replenish your whole being are lead by faculty. Activities include wellness and health, lifestyle, meditation classes, yoga, spa treatments, hiking, painting, history, nature walks, and gourmet meals. With an emphasis on wellness you will be engaged in inspiration and reflection that replenishes your whole being.

Rocky Mountain Learning Vacations Retreat, Specialty Travel for the Body, Mind & Spirit
Experience unique Rocky Mountain learning, specialty travel for the body, mind, and spirit. Choose from high quality themed workshops or retreats amidst the soul inspiring Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Enjoy a personalized workshop or retreat in fly-fishing (novice to expert), wellness retreat (body, mind, & spirit), creative writing in mountain side retreat with an award winning author, journaling workshop in mountain side retreat with Holistic Teacher (use for self-help and self-discovery). This specialty travel retreat vacation location has 320 days of sunshine a year.

Rocky Mountain Retreats and Workshops has been highlighted in the following:

• New York Times - “Travel Section”, “Adult Camps”.
• Travel and Leisure Magazine – “Writer Retreats”.
• ”Journaling Magazine”.

COOKING RETREATS
FRANCE

France Cooking Classes & La Bonne Cocotte with Lydie Marshall
For specialty travel with French culinary classes, try Lydie Marshall. Nestled in the Provence of the bustling town of Nyons,France, students can live and cook in full participatory classes with the well known author of four cook books and culinary master, Lydie Marshall. Her books are: A Passion For Potatoes, A Passion For My Provence, Soup Of The Day, and Slow – Food Comfort, by William Morrow-Harper Collins. She teaches a five day course of seasonal and regional specialties. Her articles have appeared in Food and Wine, the New York Times, Pleasures of Cooking, and Gourmet. Add this to your specialty travel.

ITALY
Badia a Coltibuono. Learn to cook Tuscan cuisine at a Tuscan abbey in Italy while enjoying the first wine resort in Chianti.
Specialty travel tourists and wine lovers visiting the Chianti district from all over the world are now enjoying a new experience. They are staying in a historic abbey and experiencing the magic of an encounter with the magic of a unique venue. They are observing the slow yet intense rhythm of the thousand year old abbey and enjoying house wines.

Tuscany Italian Cooking Course
Specialty travel is available for Tuscany, Italy cooking classes in magnificent villa in Florence. Cooking lessons are on Italian Tuscany food. VillaGaiaCookingAndWine.com-is hosted by Isabel Innocenti in Tuscany, Offering Cooking Courses, food tasting and wine, and Tourism in Tuscany. This is a self-catered, fully furnished villa accommodation for great vacations, providing cooking courses.

Guiliano Bugialli Foods of Italy
For specialty travel with Italian culinary classes try Guilliano Bugialli in Forence, Italy. His public is extremely loyal, returning again and again to his classes on tour and to school in Florence. His charming Florentine accent reminds them that he is the real thing.

He appears in about 45 America and Canadian cities each year, and often in Australia and European countries. His bestseller Foods of Italy has been translated into French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and has its own British edition. In 1987 Foods of Italy was the first Italian cookbook ever, written in English, to be translated back into Italian for the home country.

MEXICO

CULINARY ADVENTURES with Marilyn Tausend

Cookbook author and Mexican culinary guide, Marilyn Tausend, has been conducting specialty travel trips to Mexico for 18 years. They have been highlighted in many publications including; Gourmet, Travel and Leisure, Food Arts, and Bon Appetit. Her newest cookbook, Mexican, was published by Williams-Sonoma in 2003.

Marilyn will be doing a trip to a wonderful retreat hideaway overlooking the valley of Teotitlan del Valley in Oaxaca during one of the major village festivals.

Hacienda Maya
Hacienda Maya features a School of Culinary Arts for specialty ytravel with off the beaten path tours,a large selection of customizing wedding services and event planning,personal chef services for private parties, corporate team building, and music and entertainment bookings.

The Hacienda Maya School of Culinary Arts offers classes with Mayan Chef Pedro Balam Dzul in authentic dishes of the Maya. Mexican, and Mestizo – a culinary experience of flavorful spices and scrumptious dishes such as the Mayan Pibil Sauce, the famous festival dish Mole ( a chocolate chili sauce) and fresh wild Mayan lobster flambéed by the table and accompanied with a Caesar salad.

You can also enjoy other activities such as Mayan Retreats, celebrate a wedding, dine at a VIP Romantic Dinner, Corporate Team Building,bird watching,archeological sites, deep sea fishing, snorkeling, and scuba diving.

JAPAN

A TASTE OF CULTURE. Hungry to learn more about Japan?
This specialty travel combines a TASTE OF CULTURE culinary arts program combines food lore with practical tips and skill-building lessons about Japanese food. Programs offer a unique opportunity for residents of Japan and visitors from overseas to explore and enjoy Japanese culture through its food. Instruction is in English.

FRANCE
WALKING VACATIONS

France walking tours and specialty travel │ French off the beaten path cooking class, wine tours, Michelin Gourmet Dinner, and artisan and art shopping.
Find France specialty travel walking tours and travel plus off the beaten path cooking class, wine tours, and historical treasure hunting as below:

• Walking Everyday –History and Art Walks, Walks with Winegrowers, Castle Walking and other interesting experiences on all tours…
• Learn wine tasting and blending at a workshop with matching dinner and>instructions on Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Provence Tours.
• Creative Cooking Classes with a distinguished French Chef on Bordeaux, Burgundy, Loire Valley, and Paris culinary tours.
• Feasting on a Michelin Gourmet Dinner served with Grand Cru wine.
• Shopping at the Art Craftsmen, Artist, and Antique Markets on Provence and Paris Tours.
• Recreational walks, wine tasting tours & travel at the 1st grown estates at Bordeaux, Provence, Loire Valley Tours.
• Transportation for tours is provided by a 9 person minivan (No Bus).

ARCHEOLOGY
ENGLAND

The Eden Project Cornwall All Year, All Weather Attraction, Eden Project
Discover all year specialty travel with The Eden Project, Cornwall’s premier quality attraction, drawing two million people a year from all over the world. This enlightenment travel is all weather venue in Cornwall with the largest domes in Europe.

Time Travel Tours : Historical UK Tours
Archeology tours feature specialty travel to ancient landmarks and historic sites throughout England, from prehistoric to Tudor.

IRELAND

Orkney Archaeology Tours in Ireland

For specialoty travel, ORKNEY is world famous for its spectacular archeology, the Neolithic village of Skara Brae, Maes Howe chambered tomb, and the mysterious henge monuments of Brodgar and Stenness – part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

INTERNATIONAL

Educational archaeological, cultural, and historic specialty travel tours led by distinguished scholars
Enjoy specialty travel with noted scholars who are spellbinding lecturers that have a strong desire to share their in depth knowledge with you so that you can visual for yourself the importance and influence of significant parts of the world. Distinguished scholars offer highly personalized educational archaeological, cultural, and historical travel tours around the world.

These specialty tours and travel are superbly researched and planned which makes them special. These unusual vacations include person to person service and opportunities to sample the local markets, cultural events, and local cuisine.

Choose from archaeological tours of Central & South America, Asia, Middle East & Arabia , India & the Himalayas, Europe, and North & Sub-Sahara.