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Where to Walk: the 4 Best Cooking Classes Worldwide

4 hikes  ·  from $59 a head

Every trip has one free day too few. These 4 cooking classes earn the slot, priced and timed so you can decide over breakfast and still make the trailhead.

Chiang Rai: Jungle Adventure-Group Trekking & Bamboo Cooking - The 9 a.m. pickup and ride into the hills
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Chiang Rai: Jungle Adventure-Group Trekking & Bamboo Cooking

1.Jungle Adventure-Group Trekking & Bamboo Cooking

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 166 reviews · 1 day · from $80Our pick

You’ll hike 10 to 12 kilometers through bamboo forest, rice fields, farmland, tea country, and hill villages with English-speaking guides such as Wat, James, and Mo. Along the way, you’ll swim at a waterfall, help prepare lunch with bamboo tools, and finish with a hot spring soak. Expect about five hours on foot and some steep, slippery ground.

“Amazing experience, highly recommend! Views are picturesque, the route is not challenging, maybe slippery at some parts. Guides have good sense of humour and entertain us all the way. Bamboo cooking is fun, we were not much involved in cooking, just helped with some things, the food was good. We finish our tour at hot springs, enjoyable after active day.”

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1 Day Trekking Group Tour With Bamboo Cooking / Chiang Rai - Meeting Lahu and Akha communities
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1 Day Trekking Group Tour With Bamboo Cooking / Chiang Rai

2.1 Day Trekking Group Tour With Bamboo Cooking / Chiang Rai

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 51 reviews · from $58Cheapest way up

Spend about eight hours trekking up to 15 km through Chiang Rai’s jungle and mountain country with guides such as James, Wat, Sam, or Eat. Visit Lahu and Akha villages, a Chinese tea-growing community, Huay Kaew Waterfall, and a hot spring. Lunch is cooked in bamboo over an open fire.

“Best trekking experience we have done . A great adventure , food was very tasty and very authentic. James , Watt and Sam were very hospitable and fun. The only thing I would say to be aware of if you are nervous of dogs that there are a lot on the trek. However, they were not interested in the you just the other dogs .”

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Skiathos: Dog Shelter Visit, Hike & Cooking Class with Lunch - Meeting the dogs at the Skiathos shelter
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Skiathos: Dog Shelter Visit, Hike & Cooking Class with Lunch

3.Skiathos: Dog Shelter Visit, Hike & Cooking Class with Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 40 reviews · 5 hours · from $83

Spend five hours in Skiathos combining a short dog walk at the local shelter with a Greek cooking demonstration at Maria’s taverna. You’ll receive hotel pickup, meet a shelter dog, enjoy hill views, and sit down to a generous meal with wine and soft drinks. Expect a demonstration rather than a fully hands-on cooking lesson.

“One of the best trips I've had! Everything was wonderful -from walking the dogs to an enjoyable cooking class with amazing food. A special mention to our guide too.”

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Santorini: Cooking Class and Easy Hike - An easy hour through vineyards and deserted chapels
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Santorini: Cooking Class and Easy Hike

4.Santorini: Cooking Class and Easy Hike

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 11 reviews · 4 hours · from $182

You’ll walk for about an hour with an English-speaking guide through Akrotiri’s old vineyards and deserted chapels, then swim at Mesa Pigadia before joining a local chef for a Greek cooking lesson and lunch. Guides such as Sofia, Stratos, and Kosta have helped make this a personal look at quieter Santorini.

“We had a wonderful guide and a wonderful cooking class! Lunch was delicious too.”

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