8 Cooking Classes to Build a Trip Around

1.Jungle Adventure-Group Trekking & Bamboo Cooking

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

Walk 10 to 12 kilometers through bamboo forest, rice fields, farmland, and hill villages with an English-speaking guide. Wat, James, Mo, and other guides are known for humor, plant knowledge, and bamboo craft. Lunch is cooked with handmade bamboo tools, followed by a waterfall swim and hot spring soak.

“Awesome experience! The guides were incredibly nice, we visited local villages and tribes along the trail in the jungle. The cooking experience with bamboo was great, the food was delicious and we also got to try local liqueur. If you are in Chiang Rai, you should totally try this, it has been a unique experience, totally recommended!”

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2.1 Day Trekking Group Tour With Bamboo Cooking / Chiang Rai

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 51 reviews · from $58Top rated

Spend about eight hours trekking 15 km through Chiang Rai’s jungle and mountain paths, visiting Lahu and Akha villages, a Chinese tea village, Huay Kaew Waterfall, and a hot spring. Guides such as James, Wat, Sam, Eat, or Tee may lead the walk, with bamboo-cooked lunch included.

“This was a great day of hiking, sometimes quite challenging as we partly climbed up a mountain stream bed in the jungle. We learnt so much about the rural environment and the lives of the inhabitants of the villages we passed through. Read more”

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3.Pu Luong 3-Day Adventure: Trekking, Cycling & Local Cooking Class

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 26 reviews · from $219

Spend three days in Pu Luong with local guides such as Nga and Sunny. Hike through rice paddies, cycle between Thai villages, learn silk weaving and home cooking, ride a buffalo cart, relax by Hieu Waterfall, and raft along Cham Stream with lunch.

“Well organised tour to less touristy part of Vietnam. Homestay was very nice, and a good mixture of relaxing and activities. Would recommend, especially if you are interested in seeing rural village life”

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4.Full Day Trekking & bamboo cooking Tour in Chiang Rai

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 7 reviews · from $57Best value

Spend about nine hours trekking near Chiang Rai with a guide, crossing bamboo forest and Lisu, Akha, and Lahu areas. Learn bamboo cooking, make simple cups and chopsticks, swim at a waterfall, and finish at a hot spring. Guides may include Sammy, Marley, or Moe.

“The trip was wonderful, with a swim in the waterfall and a finale at the hot springs. Lunch was exceptional and truly evocative, and we had the best guides we could have hoped for, super kind and helpful”

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5.Chiang Rai Jungle Trek & Bamboo Tube Cooking Adventure

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 5 reviews · from $58

Spend eight hours hiking 10 to 12 kilometers through Chiang Rai's bamboo forests, villages, and tea country with an English-speaking guide. Cook a Thai lunch in bamboo, swim at a waterfall, meet Lisu, Akha, and Lahu communities, then soak at Pasoet Hot Spring. Small groups are limited to eight.

“The guide did a great job and created a great experience. Highly recommended.”

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6.Chiangrai: Group Trekking with Bamboo Cooking

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 5 reviews · 1 day · from $59

Spend a full day walking 10 to 12 kilometers through Chiang Rai’s hills, Lisu, Chinese, Akha, and Lahu villages. Your local English or Spanish-speaking guide leads a bamboo cooking class, waterfall stop, tea plantation visit, and hot spring break. Bring sturdy shoes, swimwear, and insect repellent.

“NO ES EN ESPAÑOL Pros: la actividad está bien, los guías son estupendos y la cocina con bambú ha sido exótica, curiosa y rica. Durante el trekking hay paisajes muy bonitos. Contras: no es un trekking para principiantes, se vende mas sencillo de lo que es, hay tramos muy resbaladizos y peligrosos. Y en la actividad pone baño en cascada y termas pero nosotros no hemos hecho nada de eso… y hemos cargado con bañador y toalla todo el camino para nada. Como opinión personal, creo que no es adecuado para niños, tampoco personas con dolencias físicas ni que no estén acostumbradas a la montaña.”

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7.The Adventure of Trekking & Bamboo Cooking

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 3 reviews · 8 hours · from $57

Spend eight hours in Chiang Rai’s countryside with an English or Thai-speaking guide. Trek 10 to 12 kilometers through bamboo forest, visit Lisu, Chinese, Akha, and Lahu villages, cook lunch in bamboo, swim at Huai Kaeo Waterfall, and finish with a hot-spring soak.

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8.One Day Trekking Chiang Rai Jungle Adventure and Bamboo Cooking

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 3 reviews · from $57

Spend a full day near Chiang Rai with ParnTrek, visiting Lisu, Chinese, Akha-Lahu villages, tea plantations, and a waterfall. Your guide, including Jimmy on some departures, teaches you to cook a traditional lunch in bamboo. Pickup, transport, water, and lunch are included.

“The operator did not respond to any of my messages about pickup or meeting points and nobody communicated anything with me.”

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