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The Best Cooking Tours and Vacations Around the World

Get a taste for local culture and dine on global cuisine – from sushi to momos – on these specially curated Trips.
Nick Dauk
5 May 2023
There’s no better way to introduce yourself to the diverse cultures and flavors of our planet than with a deep dive into local cuisine. Is your passport hungry for more than just the typical city break? We’ve got you covered. Pack your appetite, as these are the best cooking tours and vacations around the world – from chocolate tasting in Ecuador to mastering the art of sushi making in Japan.
1 . Fill your soul and stomach in Sicily

You haven’t truly eaten your way through Italy until you’ve savoured the flavors of Sicily. Thankfully, this tour has got your back and stomach. Slow-paced wandering is the best way to fill your stomach, stopping for street food tours in Syracuse and full-on feasts with a cooking lesson in Palermo. Don’t just nibble on a slice of Sicily; get a taste of the whole island on this ten-day TRIPS by Culture Trip culinary tour.

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2 . Make your own cuppa in Sri Lanka

Your world cooking travel tour must include a stop in Sri Lanka. The village market in Kandy, full of local produce, is enough to inspire your next week’s worth of family dinners. Don’t just look; grab ahold of ingredients for a hands-on Sri Lankan cooking lesson that doubles as your lunch. Sprinkle in a visit to a spice garden, and a cuppa at a tea estate, and you’ve got yourself this twelve-day TRIPS by Culture Trip tour of Sri Lanka that’ll leave your stomach and soul satiated.

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3 . Amp up your sushi skills in Japan

What’s more impressive than coming back from a holiday in Japan with great photographs? Returning with the skills to make sushi. This two-week tour of the Land of the Rising Sun includes a sushi-making class in Tokyo. Sake shots and sumo sightings are also on the menu, as is a trip to Osaka and Hiroshima. Venture to East Asia for the best sushi you’ve ever tasted on this extensive TRIPS by Culture Trip Japan tour.

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4 . Chocolate is always a good idea in Ecuador

Cooking tours are the best way to kick off a vacation, as scrumptiously presented by this TRIPS by Culture Trip journey through Ecuador. Before trekking into the Amazon and Andes, you’ll attend an Ecuadorian cooking masterclass at the Altamira restaurant in Quito. Their chefs will show you step-by-step how to prepare traditional plates, then you’ll devour said plates. Save room for dessert: this early day in your eight-day tour has a chocolate-tasting session as its cherry on top.

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5 . Breaking bread with Tibetan refugees

It’s about time you’ve added “can cook momo dumplings” to your CV. Journey into the Nepalese Himalayas and visit a Tibetan refugee camp, where they’ll be more than happy to teach you how to make these steamy meat or veggie-filled dumplings. You’ll also have an opportunity to cook your own traditional lunch in the company of Seven Women Centre’s members in Kathmandu. Bring these new cuisines to your kitchen table and gorge on other activities on this travel and cooking TRIPS by Culture Trip tour of Nepal.

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Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel – and the direction Culture Trip is moving in.

Culture Trip launched in 2011 with a simple yet passionate mission: to inspire people to go beyond their boundaries and experience what makes a place, its people and its culture special and meaningful — and this is still in our DNA today. We are proud that, for more than a decade, millions like you have trusted our award-winning recommendations by people who deeply understand what makes certain places and communities so special.

Increasingly we believe the world needs more meaningful, real-life connections between curious travellers keen to explore the world in a more responsible way. That is why we have intensively curated a collection of premium small-group trips as an invitation to meet and connect with new, like-minded people for once-in-a-lifetime experiences in three categories: Epic Trips, Mini Trips and Sailing Trips. Our Trips are suitable for both solo travellers and friends who want to explore the world together.

Epic Trips are deeply immersive 8 to 16 days itineraries, that combine authentic local experiences, exciting activities and enough down time to really relax and soak it all in. Our Mini Trips are small and mighty - they squeeze all the excitement and authenticity of our longer Epic Trips into a manageable 3-5 day window. Our Sailing Trips invite you to spend a week experiencing the best of the sea and land in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean.

We know that many of you worry about the environmental impact of travel and are looking for ways of expanding horizons in ways that do minimal harm – and may even bring benefits. We are committed to go as far as possible in curating our trips with care for the planet. That is why all of our trips are flightless in destination, fully carbon offset - and we have ambitious plans to be net zero in the very near future.