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Vegano Italiano Tours, a joint project of Tierno Tours and Green Earth Travels, returns with two terrific travel tours for 2016. The first is a week-long tour of southwestern Italy\u2019s renowned Amalfi Coast and overlooked Cilento Coast July 2\u20139, with visits to Herculaneum, Padula, and Roccadaspide. The second week-long tour goes through the stunning region of Puglia in southeastern Italy, with visits to Bari, Matera, and Alberobello, September 24\u2013October 1.<\/p>\n
Whether Amalfi\u2019s breathtaking views or Matera\u2019s rich history, travelers will enjoy stepping away from their regular routine to visit Italy, one of the world\u2019s Top 3 travel destinations. Travelers can admire the lemon-laden terraced gardens along the entire coast of Amalfi while sipping on some limoncello liqueur, or marvel at the fact that Matera is the only place in the world where people can boast about living in the same houses of their ancestors of 9,000 years ago.<\/p>\n
The regions of Puglia and Cilento are equally enthralling. Whether savoring the former\u2019s locally produced olive oil, artichokes, tomatoes and mushrooms as well as its Baroque architectural monuments in Lecce and other archeological areas, or the latter\u2019s Greek temples (some of the best-preserved on the Mediterranean) and its pre-Byzantine tombs.
\nEach tour includes a special guest from vegandom that will share cooking demonstrations and more. In July, that is Julieanna Hever, while in September, it is Miyoko Schinner. Both of 2016\u2019s special guests are accomplished professional vegans with well-received vegan tv shows and their own books, hailing from Southern and Northern California, respectively.<\/p>\n
Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, CPT, aka the Plant-Based Dietitian, joins the first tour July 2 through 9. Julieanna hosts Z Living\u2019s What Would Julieanna Do? tv show. She\u2019s the author of the very recently released book title The Vegiterranean Diet, and previously The Complete Idiot\u2019s Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition. She\u2019s also VegNews Magazine\u2019s nutrition columnist.<\/p>\n
Travelers joining Julieanna will stay two nights in breathtaking Sorrento on the Amalfi Coast, sail to the caves of Palinuro down the Cilento Coast, visit four UNESCO World Heritage sites, marvel at (and happily moan about) meals with fresh made vegan pasta and pizzas, plus discover hidden treasures and roads of Southern Italy from local guides.
\nSeptember 24 through October 1, special guest Miyoko Schinner will impart her culinary knowledge and talents with travelers. Miyoko heads Miyoko\u2019s Creamery, selling handcrafted, artisanal cheeses based on her bestselling cookbook, Artisan Vegan Cheese. She shares her passion for delicious vegan cuisine in classes around the world, and co-hosts Vegan Mashup, seen on public television.<\/p>\n
People on Miyoko\u2019s tour will spend a day among the Trulli huts, stay two nights in the heart of \u201ci sassi\u201d of Matera, sail the Adriatic Sea, enjoy olive oil like never before, and experience a truly one of a kind travel meets culinary tour.<\/p>\n
Travelers want to choose Vegano Italiano Tours for a comfortable, all-inclusive, immersive vacation seeing and tasting Italy as very very few have before. They will come and forge lifelong friendships amidst tremendously beautiful backdrops. Book today and make this one more thing to be thankful for, toast to and celebrate this season. Salute!<\/p>\n