If you have an appetite for good food and great experiences, G Adventures’ food-focused tours are for you. These foodie adventure tours serve up local cuisine and unique culinary escapades with a side of treks, showstopping views, and cultural experiences. You learn a lot about a country from its cuisine, from cooking techniques rooted in tradition to flavours that showcase local produce.
Here’s a roundup of the best adventure tours for food lovers who want more flavour in every step. Whether you’re trekking to Machu Picchu or wandering through Thai night markets, these trips make it easy to explore culture through your taste buds.
Southeast Asia: Hilltribes & Street Food
Where: Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore
Why this G Adventures tour is great: Food-focused travel takes a front seat on this Southeast Asia tour. Learn about and try local ingredients on two night market crawls, plus multiple day market visits. Indulge in traditional home-cooked meals with a hilltribe in Thailand and at a homestay on Chenderoh Lake. Taste chicken rice, nasi goreng, khao soi (Thai curry noodle soup) and other must-try Thai dishes and the other countries they call home. Plenty else will whet your appetite over the three weeks, including a hot spring visit, cave exploration, hiking in the forest, and snorkelling.
Foodie highlights: Chiang Mai and Koh Samui night markets, home-cooked hilltribe dishes, and an optional tea plantation visit.
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Local Living Italy—Tuscany San Gimignano
Where: Italy
Why this G Adventures tour is great: Live like the local community on this foodie adventure tour, which in Italy means eating well. Amid the rolling hills and medieval villages of Tuscany, indulge in wine tasting and hearty home-cooked meals and learn the ropes of Italian cooking for yourself. The delicious Italian cuisine is fuel for walks along medieval city walls, day trips to Florence and Siena, time in Rome, and more dreamy reasons to visit Italy.
Foodie highlights: Wine tasting, home-cooked dinners, and a half-day cooking class with a local chef.
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Active Galápagos & Machu Picchu
Where: Ecuador, Galápagos Islands, and Peru
Why this G Adventures tour is great: Hiking, cycling, surfing, and snorkelling are punctuated by exceptional Peruvian food moments on this culinary travel tour. Expect a cooking class in Cusco and multiple opportunities to sample Peru’s street food and sip Peruvian pisco. Venture to Machu Picchu on a guided hike on the Inca Trail with local cooks. Elsewhere on this gastronomic adventure, you ascend the Sierra Negra Volcano, tour the Sacred Valley, and have multiple chances to encounter the Galápagos’ unrivalled wildlife, such as tortoises and birds. Talk about working up an appetite.
Foodie highlights: Cusco cooking class and an opportunity to try Peruvian pisco.
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Complete Morocco Active Adventure
Where: Morocco
Why this G Adventures tour is great: Morocco is a feast for all five senses, and this adventure is a hands-on foodie tour that provides new skills to bring home alongside your souvenirs. Put the “chef” in Chefchaouen with a goat cheese-making class and get a rise out of your culinary expertise with a bread-making lunch in Bin El Ouidane. Enjoy meals with local families and plenty of opportunities to sample nationally loved tagines and mint tea. Other highlights include a camel ride, desert camping under the stars, navigating souks, mountain hikes, and shopping for fine leather goods and silver close to where they’re made.
Foodie highlights: Goat cheese-making class, bread-making lunch, a meal with an Amazigh family, and a mountain picnic.
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Epic Japan: Speed Trains & Street Food
Where: Japan
Why this G Adventures tour is great: Board the world-famous Shinkansen bullet train from city to city and use your free time to explore as you please on this foodie travel tour. Between shopping and soaking in healing waters, will you kick back at an izakaya (pub that serves small plates) or participate in a tea ceremony in Kyoto? Perhaps you’ll saunter into the sake breweries of Takayama, flanked by the scenic Japanese Alps? Be sure to sample regional specialties. Highlights include oysters in Mt Misen, Hiroshima, and the famous octopus snack in Osaka.
Foodie highlights: Sake in rural Japan, izakaya stops, and a tea ceremony.
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Sri Lanka: Spice Gardens & Seasides
Where: Sri Lanka
Why this G Adventures tour is great: This food-focused travel tour champions Sri Lanka’s best foods while highlighting the country’s key sights. Between visits to iconic spots like the Temple of the Sacred Tooth and the ancient Sigiriya Rock Fortress, you visit a spice garden and a tea plantation, and indulge in lunch in a Sri Lankan village. You also learn how to cook Sri Lankan bread or desserts while staying in Digana — surely it will be all the sweeter with your helping hand? Elsewhere on this foodie adventure tour, witness wildlife on land and at sea, with an optional safari to see the elephants in Minneriya National Park or a whale- and dolphin-watching boat ride in Hikkaduwa.
Foodie highlights: Spice garden visit, tea plantation tour, bread- or dessert-making class, and a village lunch.
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Greece: Athens and Walking in the Greek Islands
Where: Greece
Why this G Adventures tour is great: Food tastings and island living are served side by side on this travel experience. Embark on food tours on the Greek islands of TÃnos and Naxos — the latter includes wine and a visit to a vineyard. Village-to-village hikes, wandering through historic sites such as the iconic Acropolis and Tinos Castle, plus a full-day catamaran sailing in the Aegean Sea, work up your appetite for tasty Mediterranean treats. Let’s not forget your G Adventures’ tour OMG moment of a hike or drive around Santorini’s crater rim.
Foodie highlights: TÃnos food tour, Naxos cheese and wine trail with vineyard visit, and dinner on a Santorini sunset cruise.
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Peru: Lima, the Sacred Valley & the Inca Trail
Where: Peru
Why this G Adventures tour is great: This tour is perfect for food lovers, with Peruvian cuisine highlighted through empanada making, a traditional pachamanca (earth oven) dinner in Yanahuara, and ample opportunity to taste authentic ceviche. Even the already uber-cool experience of hiking the Inca Trail and seeing Machu Picchu is elevated with special foodie moments from local chefs. Between feasts, hike or bike to some of Peru’s thundering waterfalls and ancient ruins, guided by local experts.
Foodie highlights: Empanada-making demonstration, Sacred Valley meal with locally grown ingredients, and a traditional pachamanca dinner.
Experience it for yourself on: Peru: Lima, the Sacred Valley & the Inca Trail
Why foodie travellers love G Adventures
– Small group sizes mean easier access to local kitchens and quieter spots.
– Local guides forgo the tourist traps and ensure authentic food introductions.
– Community-based tourism supports local farmers, cooks, and families.
– Our active food tours balance indulgence with exploration.
