Local Living Tours & Trips in Southern France

Stay at the 18th-century Hôtel Charembeau farmhouse for four nights and check out Forcalquier's 200-stall market with your tour leader. Sample local Banon cheese with a producer and try olive oil tastings at the Jaubert family's Les Grandes Marges farm in Valensole. Walk through medieval Lourmarin's narrow streets and see the fountains of Bonnieux's High Church.

Try farm-to-table cuisine in Occitanie with a traditional lunch near Pont du Gard, then check out Nîmes' Roman amphitheater and UNESCO-listed Maison Carrée. In Lyon, wander the cobblestone Traboules passages and visit Basilica of Notre Dame de Fourvière for great views.

Walk medieval Viviers' streets and see the 11th-century Cathedral of St. Vincent, then head to Les Andelys beneath Château Gaillard's limestone cliffs. At a local organic farm in Provence, you'll learn how lavender oil is made and create your own cream to take home.

Cruise the Rhône and Saône rivers aboard the 5-star Scenic Sapphire through Provence and Burgundy. Walk medieval streets in Viviers and Tournus, see the UNESCO-listed Palais des Papes in Avignon, and try truffle foraging with a local farmer and their hound near Chalon-sur-Saône.

Chef Fabien Morreale prepares a special Provençal dinner in Arles, then you'll see spots where van Gogh painted 'Starry Night Over the Rhône'. Walk Viviers' medieval streets with sun-faded pastel buildings and taste local wines in Tournon below its 16th-century castle.