Northern Laos especially presents many great trekking opportunities. Not only is the terrain very mountainous and largely swathed in forest, it is also home to a dazzling array of highly colourful minority tribal people who still pursue the traditional slash and burn (swidden) farming methods, unchanged for a thousand years.

On this journey we will set out to discover the essential essence of Southern Vietnamese life - so tropically different in style and history from that of the north.

Discover Thailand through the favourite passion of the Thai's themselves - Thai food. Enjoy a gastronomic tour of the land's finest restaurants, visit Thai markets, farms and kitchens, witness chefs in action, study in Thai cooking schools.

The Mekong Discovery Trail is a network of safe, ecotourism journeys through some of the most natural and least populated parts of the Mekong River basin in Cambodia.