This European country is known for its luxurious desserts and delicious milk chocolate. Travelers can stop by Zürich, Switzerland's largest city, and visit their vast array of chocolate shops. Chocoholics will be happy to know that the city is the birthplace of the world-famous Lindt & Sprüngli!
Visitors traveling to Bariloche can enjoy their chocolate museums, especially along Mitre Avenue, home to places like Torres Chocolates, Chocolate Patagonico, Chocolates Catedral, Mamuschka, and Rapanui. With so many chocolatiers along this street, no wonder Mitre Avenue is nicknamed "The Avenue of Chocolate Dreams."
Visitors can take a factory tour and check out how the world-famous chocolates are made, then spend a day enjoying some rides at Hersheypark. To unwind and relax, Hotel Hershey offers guests 5-star accommodations, including "chocolate treatments" such as a whipped cocoa bath, chocolate fondue wraps, chocolate hydrotherapy, and chocolate sugar scrub. This destination is a dream vacation for the ultimate chocolate lover!
Travelers will find the world-renown Belgian chocolate in Brussels, alongside other decadent treats like waffles (whether it's Belgian or liege waffles), mattentaarten, pastries, stofé, chocuconut, aux marveilleux de fred, and many more! Tourists should also check out the Choco-Story on the Rue de l'Etuve 41.
Travelers who love sweets (but aren't avid fans of chocolate) should consider visiting Istanbul. This Turkish city is bustling with 15.5 million people, as well as some of the best desserts in the world! Head over to Ali Muhiddin Hacı Bekir that is known for their sweet lokum, or Turkish Delight. Visitors should also take some time to sink their teeth into some decadent baklava and halva.
Known as the "Pastry Capital of the World" Vienna offers tourists some of the most delicious pastries out there. Travelers with a sweet tooth can satiate their sugary cravings with a visit to Austria's capital city. Vienna is also known for its chocolates, offering tourists a peek into the history of cocoa at Vienna's Chocolate Museum.
Canada is known for its sugary maple syrups, but Québec City offers tourists much more than the liquid gold! Visitors should check out Québec towards the beginning of Spring to visit a sugar shack to enjoy some local festivities, while basking in some delicious traditional Québécois fare, including some maple taffy.
When in Tokyo, visitors with a hankering sweet tooth should sample local delights like daifuku, taiyaki, Japanese-style crêpes, wagashi, dango, and much more! Chocolate lovers can go wild at the Kit Kat Chocolatory at Miyashita Park. In this chocolatory, visitors can create their own Kit Kat bars or try out some Kit Kat waffles. There are over 200 Kit Kat varieties to try!