Veggie Vacations

…and tasty looking at that!! I came across a link to this photo on the Vegan.com blog recently – United Airlines makes a tasty looking vegan lunch!  Check it out!!

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In this article about the woes of vegan air travel, one of the vegan travelers interviewed gave a great piece of advice:  read unfamiliar ingredient labels.  She said she found that many of the cookies sold in the airport on her recent trip to Peru were vegan.  Good advice - I’ve noticed also that outside of the U.S., ingredient labels are often much less complicated.

My game plan for worst-case scenario airport hunger is to head to one of the gift shops and pick up a bag of nuts or trail mix – they usually have 3 or 4 servings in them, so it’s plenty to tide you over.

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You’ve certainly heard of going on a tour of a vineyard and doing the wine tasting, but how about going on a tour of a tea plantation?  Tea is the 2nd most consumed beverage in the world (after water – also green tea is the most consumed of all kinds).  Tea plantations in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kenya, and right here in the U.S. offer either vacation packages or tours and tastings.  Check out the article here.

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From examiner.com, a well-written, polite, and civil letter to Anthony Bourdain (from the Travel channel – if it has a pulse, he’ll eat it) on behalf of vegetarians and vegans everywhere.

Also, speaking of the Travel Channel, I caught the tail end of an episode of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern taking place in Delhi, where he visited a Sikh temple at which they serve free vegetarian food in their community. Awesome! Not so ‘bizarre’ though. Then the next episode started and I was simultaneously nauseated and horrified. I turned the TV off and tried to focus on the chappati and lentil daal from a few minutes ago.

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Welcome to the Veggie Vacations blog, where I’ll be sharing veg-related news from the world of travel as well as my own vacation experiences.

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As vegetarians and vegans, we have learned to plan ahead when venturing out to eat – we ask all the right questions and always have snacks in hand just in case.  Planning a veg vacation is much more complicated than planning the usual night out – that’s why we’re here!  You know that feeling…the one you get when you walk into a vegan restaurant and know that you don’t have to ask any questions, that you can choose from the menu with reckless abandon and no worry whatsoever?  We want you to have that feeling while you’re on your vacation.

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