A bright green rice field stretching to a line of trees, with the sun low on the horizon

Where culture rests, and adventure begins.

Small-group loops through Isaan, in northeastern Thailand. You stay in farming villages with local guides, and your visit supports the communities that host you.

See the four loops Meet the farmers

“When the rice rests, culture begins.”

Lao proverb

Isaan is Thailand’s rural northeast. It has its own language, music and food, and it shares most of them with Laos, just across the Mekong.

20 provinces 22 million people, about a third of Thailand Read about Isaan

Four loops through Isaan

Every route is a circle, so you finish where you started. Accommodation, local guides and cultural experiences are included on all of them.

Heritage Circle

7 days · from ฿12,500

Mekong Frontier

5 days · from ฿9,800

Rice Keeper’s Path

3 days · from ฿7,200

Mekong Expedition

10 days · from ฿15,000

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A plate of green papaya salad beside a bowl of sticky rice and grilled chicken
Som tam, khao niao, kai yang

Its own food, music and festivals

The food is sour, hot and fermented. Mor lam singers tell stories to the sound of the khaen, and before planting, villages fire rockets at the sky to ask for rain.

Discover Isaan
Somporn left a city job to come home to the family farm. She now leads a cooperative of 25 women selling straight to Bangkok buyers.

Somporn Thanakit · Khon Kaen

Guests on our loops stay and work with farming families like hers.

Meet the farmers See the impact
Four farmers in wide straw hats cutting rice by hand with sickles beneath tall trees
Harvest by sickle, Surin Province
View from a sandstone cliff across forest to the Mekong river and the hills of Laos

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