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Experiential Travel – Exploring More Enriching Ways to Travel

Experiential travel is about exploring more enriching ways to travel for us – it’s about making travel more meaningful and memorable and that’s our mission here on Grantourismo and our focus for the year ahead.

Experiential travel is a style of travel we’ve been doing for many years – actively engaging and interacting with locals, and getting hands on and learning things when we travel. But for the next 12 months on our grand tour of the world, we’ll be immersing ourselves even more than we ever have.

Experiential Travel – Exploring More Enriching Ways to Travel

Learning how to identify bush tucker and track animals with an Aboriginal guide at Monkey Mia, how to be an elephant-training mahout in the Golden Triangle, and learning about Bedouin culture over glasses of tea with a family in their goat-hair tent at Jordan’s Feynan Eco-Lodge are some of the experiential travel opportunities that have formed our most memorable and meaningful travel experiences of the last few years.

Along with learning about ancient rock art from an indigenous artist in Arnhem Land, how to cook Thai food with a Thai chef in Chiang Mai, how shirts and leather bags are handcrafted on a bespoke walking tour in Rome, what it takes to be a ‘Master Chef’ in a Michelin-starred kitchen, strolling with a shepherd watching his flock and making bread with the village baker in Northern Cyprus, and bird-watching from an airboat in remote Bamurru Plains… you get the picture.

This isn’t a new way of travel for us. We’ve both travelled in engaging and interactive ways with local communities, thanks to childhoods that were very different, childhoods that were filled with travel.

What all of these experiences have in common is that we were actively doing things and learning stuff by engaging with locals. Rather than just looking at sights, we were interacting with people to learn about their history, country, culture, language, traditions, customs, art and crafts, cuisine, and everyday life. And we came away feeling all the more enriched because of those experiences, and so made it a habit to seek them out whenever and wherever we travelled.

Experiential travel – along with slow travel and local travel – have made our travels all the more meaningful and memorable. Hence our motto, which has become our mission.

One of the most frustrating aspects of working as guidebook authors has been not having enough time to do more of these things – especially when part of our research for books has been to identify these kinds of experiences, classes, courses and tours – which is why experiential travel became one of the major focuses of our Grantourismo Project and will be a focus of the site into the future.

For us, the thirst for more authentic local experiences was partly a response to a growing materialism we’ve witnessed on our travels in recent years, and partly the result of our frustration with the globalisation and the homogenisation of the world. The more we’ve travelled the more we’ve witnessed things becoming the same, and the more we’ve wanted to search for and experience what’s different and unique about places.

We predict that experiential travel will be a growing trend. We are already starting to see tours including more interactive learning experiences in their itineraries, from cooking courses in Venice to flower arranging classes in Tokyo.

Further evidence is the rise of travel businesses such as Context, which specializes in offering more meaningful tours, learning activities, and ‘walking seminars’ that are right up our alley. Not to mention superb magazines such as Dutch publication Ode, about “the people and ideas changing our world for the better”, and San Francisco’s Afar, a new magazine whose mission is similar to ours: “to inspire and guide those who travel the world seeking to connect with its people, experience their culture, and understand their perspectives”.

Still, there are far fewer people travelling experientially and travelling in a more meaningful and memorable way, than there are people travelling with the same old sightseeing and bucket-list mindset. We’d like to see that reversed and that will be our goal hereon, in 2010 and beyond.

Like the Grand Tourists who went to Europe to learn how to speak Italian or French, how to draw or paint, how to fence, play boules or do archery, we’re going to spend our Grand Tour learning and doing things in the hope that we can inspire you to do the same.

Expect us to be doing thing from cooking tajine with locals in Morocco to learning flamenco guitar in Spain, anything that’s local, that’s connected to the place we’re visiting, that gives us an insight into a culture and its people, and helps us get under the skin of a place.

As we’ve also talked about in other posts, we’ll be learning to live like locals wherever we go and giving back wherever we can, as we explore a more enriching way to move. We hope you’ll join us on our journey.

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About Lara Dunston

A travel and food writer who has experienced over 70 countries and written for The Guardian, Australian Gourmet Traveller, Feast, Delicious, National Geographic Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller, Travel+Leisure Southeast Asia, DestinAsian, TIME, CNN, The Independent, The Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, AFAR, Wanderlust, International Traveller, Get Lost, Four Seasons Magazine, Fah Thai, Sawasdee, and more, as well as authored more than 40 guidebooks for Lonely Planet, DK, Footprint, Rough Guides, Fodors, Thomas Cook, and AA Guides.

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  1. laurenkmcleod says

    January 11, 2010 at 3:14 am

    Hi Lara,

    Great post, it sounds like you guys have been doing some serious travelling! I think one of my favourite travelling experiences was donkey racing through the city centre of Aswan, Egypt. Even though we were stumbling around as if we were 8 months pregnant afterward, it was so much fun, I’d do it again in a second.

    I’m keen to know where else you have been and what activities you did to really “experience” the culture and people, instead of boring, traditional sight-seeing!

    We’re soon to launch an experiential and adventure travel site, to stay updated become a fan of our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/globetrooper

    Looking forward to reading more from you guys this year,
    Lauren

  2. Julie says

    January 11, 2010 at 7:57 pm

    One of my favorite things to do is visit artists and artisans in their homes or workshops and watch them working in their own environment, talking with them about how they carve statues of saints (in Puerto Rico) or how they hand make dyes for wool (in Mexico).

    I also really enjoy witnessing local politics- rallies and demonstrations offer a quick and intense way of staring to get an understanding about the local power structure and where ordinary citizens fit within it.

  3. Audrey says

    January 11, 2010 at 8:02 am

    We love trying new foods. And while we spend a lot of time in markets and asking locals about what dishes to try, some of our best food experiences while traveling have been in cooking classes. Getting into a kitchen helps demystify the cuisine and helps you learn the basics of cooking techniques and how to use ingredients. Probably the best course was our first – a Thai cooking class in Chiang Mai. We returned home to Prague with a bag full of ingredients and cooking utensils; our friends joked that we ran the best Thai restaurant in town.

    Learning a language while on the road is another great experience, especially if it involves a home stay where you can learn about regular life from inside a home.

    I think experiential travel is becoming more popular, especially for people who are a bit traveled already. There is only so long that seeing temples, churches or museum stays interesting before you want to learn how and why things are done in that country by experiencing it firsthand.

  4. Terence Carter says

    January 11, 2010 at 8:25 am

    Hi Audrey,
    Chiang Mai is a real touchstone for a lot of travellers who are interested in cooking. I’m doing some posts on Thailand’s food this week on my own blog…
    Getting beneath the skin of a city is just what we’re after.
    We love Prague, by the way, Thai food would be the last thing on our minds there, but I don’t blame you for wanting to cook your own! It’s a great cuisine.

  5. Terence Carter says

    January 11, 2010 at 8:52 pm

    Yes! We love visiting artists too. Did a lot of it in Australia last year — there is nothing quite like buying a piece of art directly from the artist. In fact, We have a painting by the Aboriginal artist, Thompson, who is showing us the rock paintings in the photograph above.
    I’ve made a habit of going to visit musical instrument makers as well. In Egypt, Syria, Turkey and Italy, I’ve gone to watch (and occasionally buy!) instruments being made. I love that hand-crafted, unique aspect to it, such as the violin-maker in Cremona who only made dozen instruments a year and every day would put one coast of lacquer on the body of a violin for several weeks!
    Funnily enough, we have managed to get tangled up in demonstrations as well, some of them violent such as one in Athens, Greece, which was nasty. We love the passion of peaceful protesters and kind of miss being in one place long enough to get involved in local politics!
    Thanks for your thought-provoking comment, I might see if I can rustle up a gallery of musical instrument photos…

  6. Paul K. Sholar says

    January 12, 2010 at 9:36 am

    Just wondering whether you distinguish “experiential travel” from “heritage travel”. I would beware of the former term being mistaken for “adrenaline rush travel”. You are talking about “learn-something-from-the-locals travel”, which is what I like to think that all “heritage travel” is about. I don’t know whether either of these last two terms is more inclusive.

    A couple of comments about foreign experiential travel: This should be mediated by someone who is knowledgeable about the cultural differences, even dangers, that can come into play when trying to teach a foreigner a batch of local knowledge. And be aware of whether the subject matter you’re learning about is exploitive of the locals, or you. It probably requires more than one visit to a place to begin to get a sense of the customs and beliefs, as well as being aware of the materials used by that society, that are the context of what the locals are teaching visitors.

    Also, please encourage Americans to enjoy experiential travel within our own country. It is surprising and gratifying to learn how much grass roots history and know-how exists all around us, especially in ethnic enclaves of cities and in rural settings.

    Paul K. Sholar
    Twitter: @LAUniqueTravel

  7. Lara Dunston says

    January 12, 2010 at 5:18 pm

    Hi Paul – ‘Experiential Travel’ is essentially about travel that is focused on experiences, on going somewhere to do things and learn things, rather than simply to ‘see’ things on a sightseeing tour, or do nothing by lying on the beach. Yes, adventure travel is one of many subsets of experiential travel, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be focused on adrenaline rush-driven activities, it could be as simple as going away to do a cooking course, going on a yoga retreat or heading to Buenos Aires to learn the tango. Often these kinds of activities are driven by locals, but sometimes it might be a foreign academic who is a specialist in an activity or field leading a walking tour (I’m thinking of one of Context’s walks for instance; see http://www.contexttravel.com.)

    We’re treating the theme of ‘living like locals’ as a separate but compatible one, as we appreciate that not everyone wants to go traveling to do/learn things. Some people to just want to kick back and relax. But I guess what we’re encouraging them to do is do it in a local neighbourhood and step outside the tourist zone, so if you’re looking for a bar to hang out at, head for a local pub rather than an over-priced tourist trap, buy your picnic snacks from a local market, a local bistro instead of a hotel restaurant, etc. All of this of course is much more achievable in a rental located in a local neighbourhood than a city centre hotel.

    Heritage travel of course is another subset, focused on learning about the history and culture of a people and place, and might range from a trip exploring the castles of Scotland to one visiting the hill tribes of Thailand, where you rightly point out is best facilitated by local experts so it’s not exploitative.

    As for encouraging Americans to explore their own country, I’m not sure we’re the best people for that job – we’re Australians who have lived in the Middle East since 1998, and Grantourismo is a project we’re doing with a web-based, and therefore global busines, but one with its physical roots in the UK. (Although they also have an American sister company based out of Austin.) We’re firm believers in travel as a way to open minds, broaden horizons, and promote tolerance and understanding, so I’m afraid we’ll be encouraging people to travel overseas more than they currently do, but we certainly see where you’re coming from and we’re often frustrated by Australians who have been to Bali and Thailand but never seen their own country.

    Thanks for your comments!

  8. Jamie says

    March 11, 2010 at 6:51 pm

    (I’ve missed the past 2 months, so I’m starting from the beginning….sorry if my comments are delayed!)

    I definitely think experiential travel is becoming more popular, as it should. If I were you, I would seek out local artisans/craft people that are of a fading generation. My best experiences in China were when I could sit and watch 60+ year old women hand embroider the most amazing fabrics.

    Just a thought!

  9. Terence Carter says

    March 12, 2010 at 1:09 am

    Hi Jamie, thanks for the tip – that’s exactly what we’re doing this year – and always have done. For example, last year I visited several oud makers in different Middle Eastern countries as well as violin makers in Cremona, Italy. Bespoke and handmade goods are some of our favourite things.
    This year, we’ve already visited artisans in Morocco and we went to a flamenco guitar maker yesterday – we’ll be blogging about that soon!

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/seafood-recipes-for-christmas-eve-and-christmas-day-menus/
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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

You’ll find that recipe and many more Christmas recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/best-christmas-recipes/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/homemade-edible-christmas-gifts/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

If you’re looking for tips to visiting Angkor, Siem Reap and Cambodia, just ask us a question in the comments below or check Grantourismo as we’ve got loads of info on our site. Click through to the link in the bio and explore our Cambodia guide or search for ‘Angkor’. 

And please do let us know if you’re coming to Siem Reap. We’d love to see you here x

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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