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Using your vacation to learn something new and interesting:

Cooking classes

Garden design

Martial arts lessons

Art history instruction

Hands-on crafts lessons

Architecture

Pottery and ceramics

Jewelry design

Private dance lessons

Music lessons

Painting

Language immersion

Traditional healing

Meditation

Sports

Wildlife conservation

History

Archaeology

Paleontology

Wine

Private, customized learning activities

Does a cooking class in Italy sound like fun? How about pressing your own olive oil in Greece? A surf lesson in Bali? Martial arts in China? Perhaps you’d like to learn to work clay in a traditional pottery village in Japan or paint your own porcelain in Austria?

These are just a few of the hundreds of private and personalized hands-on experiences we can incorporate into our tours in destinations around the world. Let us know what you’d like to learn, and we’ll organize your private touring around lessons that last from as short as an hour to as long as a week or more.

We work closely with a wide range of local professionals—artisans, chefs, artists, professors, dancers, musicians, martial arts instructors, scientists, naturalists, archaeologists, historians and more—to ensure that you receive the level of instruction appropriate to your abilities and interests.

Contact us at (800) 214-8144 to start customizing a luxurious international tour that focuses on your specific interests.

Booking Information >

All Artisans of Leisure tours are private and depart daily.

Please Contact Us for more information regarding the above tour, or to begin customizing your own itinerary.

The Artisans of Leisure Style of Travel:

Private touring with your own personal guides and drivers
Preferred rooms in the very best luxury hotels
Firsthand, sophisticated destination knowledge and recommendations from our travel specialists
Itineraries that are customized according to your interests and schedule
Artisans of Leisure upgrades and amenities
A seamless travel experience, including all logistics, skipping lines during touring whenever possible, restaurant and spa reservations, performance tickets, private airport transfers, internal transportation, VIP and fast-track airport assistance in many destinations
Around-the-clock support in each destination during your trip
Unique, insider travel experiences and access to the Artisans of Leisure network of experts around the world

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Testimonials

You all did an absolutely superb job with our Japan trip…we liked best the sumo tournament…and geisha dinner, a not to be missed experience! The ikebana class was lots of fun and very educational.
~ L.C., Naples, FL

We had a lovely Morocco trip. The cooking class was a highlight for us – we loved having our own private class.
~ K.C., Johns Island, SC

We had a wonderful time in Asia!!! Highlights in Indonesia were seeing village life and culture in Bali, including a village tour of tofu-making and pottery making.
~ T.T., New York, NY