Our top Thailand tours and excursions

Thailand is overflowing with guided tours and excursions, but not all are created equal. That’s why we only ever recommend the best of the best: the experiences guaranteed to get you under the skin of Thai culture.   

Man cutting down coconuts in Thailand

Introduction to coconuts

Coconuts: not much to know, right? Wrong.

Today’s join-in tour will get you beneath the hairy husk of this humble fruit as you visit a museum, orchard, farm and family-run processing factory. Along the way, follow the coconut from cultivation to peeling, scraping, squeezing, distilling and crafting — ending in products as diverse as coconut oil and household appliances. Of course, you’ll also get to eat plenty of coconut-flavoured goodies, including a traditional sweet dessert you’ll whip up yourself. 

Araksa tea plantation, Chiang Mai

A morning at Araksa Tea Garden

Discover the secrets of growing, harvesting and roasting top-quality tea against the backdrop of the evergreen hills of Mae Tang. 

An hour’s drive outside of Chiang Mai, tucked away in the hills, is one of Thailand’s oldest tea plantations. At over 70 years old (and counting), Araksa’s tea plants haven’t seen a single chemical in over two decades, and consequently produce some of the finest organic white, green, black and herbal teas around. On a morning visit, you’ll get to participate in the tea production process from start to finish — harvesting the leaves, kneading and roasting the tea, and brewing and tasting it yourself — concluding with a beautiful set lunch in the garden. 

Bangkok street market

Bangkok after dark

Bangkok is the city that never stops eating, as you’ll discover on this late-night tuk-tuk tour of the city’s finest street-food spots and drinking holes. 

From Michelin-starred crab omelettes to fishball soup, and from drunken noodles to chive dumplings, Bangkok cuisine is much, much more than just pad thai (though there’s that, too). Zipping through the streets in the back of a tuk-tuk, your guide will take you beyond the usual tourist hotspots and deep into the after-hours food culture of the city, stopping in for cold drinks at hidden bars and street-food treats at thronging night markets. In between bites, you’ll also hop out to explore some Bangkok landmarks — including chedi temple spires glowing golden against the night sky.