Oceania Cruisesis expanding its Culinary Discovery Tours to the South Pacific on the award-winning mid-sized luxury cruise shipMarina. Uniquely designed for each port, these tours provide guests with the opportunity to explore local food markets, vineyards and farms in small groups, side-by-side with an expert chef from the ships Bon Apptit Culinary Center. Participants then join the chef in the fully equipped cookery school for a hands-on cooking lesson of the regional cuisine in one of 24 workstations.
These new tours are offered in the Bay of Islands and Tauranga, New Zealand onthe 18-daySouth Pacific Paradisecruise. Departing Papeete, Tahiti on 7th February 2013, the cruise calls on 11 ports throughout French Polynesia, Samoa, Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia before arriving in New Zealand.
The tour in Tauranga, ‘Maori Kai Cooking Demo and Kiwi Fruit‘, explores a flourishing kiwi orchard and is followed by a trip to the lakes of Rotorua for a traditional Maori luncheon featuring native herbs and ingredients used by the indigenous people of New Zealand.
Marinaalso sails three additional South Pacific voyages with highlights that include overnight calls on Easter Island and Bora Bora, cruising the Tuamotu Archipelago and crossing the international dateline.
