COLLETTE is offering a range of world tours that will enable travellers to sample exotic cuisines and culinary delights from the four corners of the globe.
For a tropical adventure, aroma-rich Panama boasts lush rainforests, brilliantly hued birds and spectacular coastlines. Collette’s Discover Panama tour is an opportunity for travellers to savour local specialities in an idyllic setting.
In Gamboa, you can take an excursion to an Embera indigenous village and enjoy a traditionally cooked meal and folklore dance show.
Cruising through the stunning Panama Canal, the tour will stop to visit the Mercado de Mariscos seafood market and try fresh ceviche.
In Anton Valley, there’s the opportunity to bask in the luxuriant natural surrounds of an orange grove while enjoying a picnic lunch, or learn old-style cooking at a clay oven bakery.
Those with a sweet tooth will be in heaven sampling the sweet sugarcane juice guarapa in Chitre’s sugarcane mill.
At one of Panama’s well-known distilleries, travellers will learn about the production of rum and seco before delighting in a tasting session.
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