Diane Garvin
Diane Garvin
Travel Consultant specializing in active veggie group tours
Travel Consultant specializing in active veggie group tours
To book your next vacation or active veggie tour, please contact me at: dgarvin@tpi.ca or (613)779-5794. I look forward to hearing from you!
 

 
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Hello and welcome to my virtual office!  You've come to the right place.  This site is home to the very fun and popular active veggie tours.   Active veggie tours are fully escorted first class tours leaving from all major gateways worldwide to exciting destinations around the world.   An active component, at the intermediate level, is built-in to most days' itinerary and all included meals  are vegetarian.
 
Having many friends who are vegetarian and being a travel consultant, I have often been asked if there are any organized international vegetarian vacations.  My friends experiences so far have been tours featuring vegetarian options only which provide very limited choices for them.  My friends feel as if they don't 'get their money's worth' in tours where meals are included in the package price.  In some countries they were left with salad as their only option while other travellers dined on gourmet meals.  This is hardly fair and is the inspiration behind my creation of veggie tours. 

 

Most of my vegetarian friends are also active and do not enjoy sitting on a motor coach for hours on end then getting out and sitting in restaurants to eat various meals, only to get back on the bus to sit for more hours!  Therefore, I’ve added an ‘active’ component to these veggie tours.  At the end of these tours, you won’t feel unwell from sitting for prolonged periods of time and you won’t feel as if you’ve gained 10 pounds.  Instead, you will feel terrific!

Each day of the tour will begin with a buffet breakfast with many vegetarian items to choose from, followed by different forms of activity such as walking, hiking, yoga, swimming, kayaking etc., on various venues, for approximately two to three hours several times during the tour.   The tour director will point out various veggie lunch options at each local.  The remainder of the day will be spent sightseeing via luxury motor coach.   

The group will enjoy tasty and nutritious vegetarian dinners with luscious local wines and delightful beers available to compliment the dinner.  (Vegetarian meals in all my veggie tours will be Ovo-Lacto ones which are no fish, meat or poultry of any kind including their by-products, but will include eggs and dairy products.)  We will bed down for a good night's sleep at first class inns and hotels.
 
Active veggie tours are not just for vegetarians. They are for everyone!  As long as you think you would enjoy the 'vegetarian experience' you are very welcome:) 
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