Off limits to Westerners till relatively recently, Vietnam is the South East Asia that Elvis knew.

Set amidst emerald-green rice fields and lush orchards, Khum Lanna gives you a luxurious home-stay experience combined with a cooking school specialising in traditional Northern Thai cuisine. A celebration of heritage, food and lifestyle, the Culinary & Wellness programme combines cultural exchanges with local communities with Thai cooking classes, herbal steam baths and massages.

Thailand's cultural and social roots are firmly set in the countryside, in fact, when Mahatma Gandhi said of his home country "... the real India is in the villages". He could just as easily have been referring to Thailand, a country whose political and cultural birth was in the "million rice fields" of the ancient Lanna Thai Kingdom.

This one week mountain bike tour explores the extraordinary relationship between South East Asia's greatest river, the Mekong, and the ancient city of Angkor Thom, once the world's largest city. Following tracks and riverside trails we encounter rural Mekong communities before visiting the awesome temples ruins of Angkor.