Travel firm Exotic Voyages has launched a new cuisine tour to various localities throughout Vietnam called ‘A Tribute to Anthony Bourdain: Taste of Vietnam’.

Anthony Bourdain (right) and former US President Barack Obama at a bún chả shop in Hanoi. — Photo thrillist.com

The tour, which lasts 14 days and 13 nights at US$3,755 per person, will offer tourists travel and food experiences in HCM City, the Mekong Delta, Central Highlands and Đà Lạt City, the central coastal cities of Danang, Hoi An and Hue, the capital Hanoi and Hạ Long Bay.

The company has co-operated with tourism expert Diep Nguyen, who worked with Bourdain in Parts Unknown shootings in 2016 in Vietnam, to organise the tour.

Tourists will have a chance to enjoy special food in Vietnam that chef Bourdain loved.

Tourists will not only travel to places where he visited but also have an opportunity to sit and eat at the very tables he used in 2016.

“The experience of a lifetime not only helped me understand the man himself but how his love for my beautiful Vietnam developed over good food and conversation,” said Diep Nguyen. “To say thanks and pay tribute to Anthony Bourdain, the trip is everything I would like to offer for everyone who loves him, falls for, or is curious about, Vietnam, and, of course, loves our food.”

The celebrity chef and author committed suicide in France on June 8, 2018.

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