Eat Smart Culinary, Cultural, & Safari Tour to Eastern India - March 2-17, 2025

Eat Smart Culinary, Cultural, and Safari Tour to Eastern India
Tour Dates: March 2 to 17, 2025

Join local culinary travel professionals, Joan Peterson and Susan Chwae on this multi-day tour as we travel through Eastern India's culinary gems and Central India's forests. The Eastern part of India is fertile, mysterious and still untouched by the impact of over tourism. A stay at the restored boutique hotels in the countryside of Bengal is an opportunity to visit and experience this area at your pace and interest. There are tribal cultures to be seen, traditions to be experienced, food to be savored and rural vignettes to be photographed. Pench National Park in Central India, named after a river that cuts through the heart of the jungle and creates a dramatic setting with large boulder like rocks, dotted with teak and ancient varieties of fig trees.

Have the option to extend your journey to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal, the Crown of Mughal architecture in India. The origins of the city of Agra can be traced to the days of Mahabharata, the epic poem of Great India when it was called Agrevana, meaning 'the edge of the forest.' Agra served as the capital for the Mughal Empire during the 16th and 17th centuries and flourished as a center of art, drawing inspiration from Persian, Islamic, Turkish, Byzantine and Indian styles. It has been immortalized ever since by the Taj Mahal - a magnificent marble mausoleum that epitomizes love, yet Agra has so many more monuments that tell a rich narrative of the tides and times of this era.

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FOR A MINIMUM OF 8 PARTICIPANTS, MAXIMUM OF 12 PARTICIPANTS
$9,465 per person
$12,665 per person, single occupancy

Optional Extension to Agra to see the Taj Mahal
$810 per person
$1020 per person, single occupancy

25 % Deposit Required:
Non-refundable deposit* in Double Occupancy - $2,366 per person
Non-refundable deposit* with Single Supplement - $2,914 per person
*Your deposit is refundable until you have been notified that the tour has been filled and your deposits have been sent to our India tour operator, at which point your deposit is non-refundable.
Balance due 90 days prior to departure.

TOUR LEADERS:
Joan Peterson is the publisher of the EAT SMART series of guidebooks designed for travelers and cookbook lovers. To date she has written guides to the cuisines of Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, Poland, Morocco, Sicily, India, Peru, and Norway. ​She has traveled extensively for many years, and leads culinary tours to Croatia, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Norway, Peru, Portugal and Sicily.

Susan Peterson Chwae began her career in the travel industry in 1997 when she joined the family’s publishing company. Since the inception of the company’s tour business, Susan has worked intimately with destination management companies and tour operators to create luxury culinary and cultural travel experiences. She and her business partner/mother provide tour leader expertise on all of their tours.