Local Living Tours & Trips in Cambodia and Vietnam

Stay in traditional wooden homes on Dong Hoa Hiep Island in the Mekong Delta and get hands-on with rice farming at Living Land Farm in Luang Prabang, where you'll plough fields alongside water buffalo. Cycle through countryside roads to Tra Que village to pick up farming techniques.

Stay in a traditional homestay at Chambok Village and share a home-cooked Cambodian dinner with local families, getting a real taste of rural life. Later, learn noodle-making at Oodles of Noodles in UNESCO-listed Hoi An, then walk through Hanoi's Old Quarter.

Ride your bike through narrow canal paths in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, passing brick kilns and coconut candy workshops in Cai Lay before crossing into Cambodia. You'll check out the UNESCO-listed Sambor Prei Kuk temple complex and stay in 3-4 star hotels.

You'll visit a Khmer family near Tonle Sap Lake and learn traditional straw mat weaving in Dinh Yen village. Cycle through Tra Que Village's organic farms to harvest vegetables with local farmers, then check out Long Xuyen's floating markets by boat.

You'll spend four nights aboard the luxury Victoria Mekong cruising from Can Tho to Phnom Penh, stopping at floating villages and local markets to see authentic Cambodian and Vietnamese life. In Siem Reap, there's a hands-on cooking class where you learn traditional Khmer dishes.

Take a sampan boat through the Mekong Delta waterways, stopping at local cottage industries on Dong Hoa Hiep Island and having lunch in a wooden home. Head to the Cai Rang floating market at dawn to watch traders sell produce from their boats. See stilted villages at Kampong Phluk on Tonle Sap Lake and plant trees at Preak Dak community.