10-Nights Classic Thailand - Small Group
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2/6/2027
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Discover Thailand through local life, regional flavors and some of the country’s most important cultural and historic sites. From Bangkok’s temples and markets to Kanchanaburi’s wartime history, Chiang Rai’s tea country and Chiang Mai’s Lanna traditions, this journey brings together hands-on experiences, meaningful local encounters and time to explore at your own pace. With your Small Group, you'll travel by tuk tuk, longtail boat and local train, meet local hosts, learn through MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experiences and even stay in distinctive settings, including a floating villa on the River Kwai.
Dining Summary
- 5 Dinner (D)
- 9 Breakfast (B)
- 3 Lunch (L)
- Bangkok: Sit down to dinner at the hotel and take in your first views across Bangkok from the rooftop.
- Chiang Mai: Try khao soi, one of northern Thailand’s best-known dishes, made with egg noodles in a rich coconut curry broth and topped with crisp noodles. Long associated with Chiang Mai, it reflects the flavors and culinary traditions that define the region.
- Chiang Mai: Meet Mr Prapat and his family for a hosted village visit outside Chiang Mai, where you’ll join a hands-on cooking class using herbs and ingredients from the garden. As you prepare northern Thai dishes together, you’ll see how home cooking remains closely tied to local produce and family tradition.
- Chiang Mai: Enjoy your creations with the locally produced ingredients, which might include coconut-infused noodle soup and red and green curries (you’ll make the pastes from scratch) Sit down with Mr Prapat and his family for a farm-to-table lunch served in their village home. Shared around the family table, the meal reflects northern Thai hospitality and offers a direct experience of how food brings family and guests together in everyday village life.
- Chiang Mai: Come together for dinner at 137 Pillars House, a restored teak residence in Chiang Mai’s Wat Ket district with roots in the 19th-century teak trade. Set around the historic Baan Borneo house, it preserves the timber architecture and grounds of a former trading compound for one last meal with your small group.
- Bangkok: Join local vendors in a Bangkok flower market to make a traditional phuang malai garland before bringing your handmade offering into Wat Pho, where floral garlands are presented as a sign of respect in Buddhist worship.
- Bangkok: Visit one of Bangkok’s oldest and largest temple complexes, home to the 46 m (151 ft) Reclining Buddha and long recognized as a center of traditional Thai learning. As you explore the grounds, you’ll see one of the city’s most important religious sites at close hand.
- Bangkok: Explore the Grand Palace, established in 1782 at the heart of Bangkok. This vast walled complex served as the official royal residence from 1782 to 1925 and is still used for major royal ceremonies today.
- Kanchanaburi: Board a local train for one of the most memorable stretches of the historic Death Railway. As you travel through Kanchanaburi, you’ll cross wooden viaducts including the Wang Po Viaduct, one of the line’s best-known surviving sections, built during the Second World War as part of the Thailand-Burma Railway.
- Kanchanaburi: Arrive at FloatHouse River Kwai Resort by longtail boat and step straight into your floating villa on the river. Reached only by water, the resort brings a different side of Kanchanaburi into view from the moment you arrive.
- Death Railway Museum: Visit one of the most challenging sections of the Thailand-Burma Railway, where prisoners of war and Asian laborers cut through the rock by hand in 1943. The pass and memorial site bring into focus the scale of the railway’s construction and the human cost behind it.
- Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya: Discover Ayutthaya, where ruined palaces, monasteries and temple compounds reveal the scale of the Siamese kingdom at its height. Once a major trading capital with links across Asia, Europe and the Middle East, it shows how influential Old Siam became.
- Chiang Rai: Visit Chiang Rai’s best-known contemporary landmark, created by Thai artist Chalermchai Kositpipat and opened to visitors in 1997. Its white exterior and mirrored decoration set it apart from Thailand’s older temple architecture and make it one of the country’s most distinctive modern religious sites.
- Chiang Mai: Visit Wat Chedi Luang, one of Chiang Mai’s most important Old City temples, known for its vast brick stupa completed in 1481. Once home to the Emerald Buddha, it remains one of the city’s most significant religious landmarks.
- Chiang Mai: Visit Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai’s most important temple, in time for sunset. Known for its golden pagoda and hilltop setting above the city, it remains one of northern Thailand’s most sacred religious sites.
- Bangkok: Meet a Buddhist monk at Wat Pho and receive a traditional blessing, a practice still part of Thai Buddhist life today. After presenting your offering, you’ll take part in a temple ritual observed for protection, good fortune and respect.
- Bangkok: Visit Wat Arun, one of Bangkok’s best-known riverside temples, in time for sunset. Rising above the Chao Phraya River, its central prang is decorated with porcelain and colored ceramics, giving this important Bangkok landmark a distinctive silhouette as the light begins to change.
- Chiang Rai: Visit a tea plantation in Chiang Rai and see how another side of northern Thailand is shaped by the land. Learn about the history of Thai tea, watch green tea and first flush black tea being processed, then compare tastings, try brewing your own and sample local honey, homemade pastries and tea ice cream along the way.
- Chiang Mai: W