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MUST SAVE: UnTours Provence recommendations 👇

🍈 Spend a morning at the market in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
It's one of our favorite in the region. Tables piled with Cavaillon melons, olives, chèvre, lavender, honey, tapenade, saucisson…

🍷 Get to know Côtes du Rhône wines
Our UnGuide Anne happens to be a sommelier in her spare time and loves sharing her passion with UnTourists. Ask her what to taste, which vineyard to visit, or why one bottle tastes completely different from another grown just a few villages away.

🧺 Put together a very Provençal lunch
Start with a baguette from the bakery with the longest queue. Add market tomatoes, goat cheese, olives, and a chilled bottle of rosé. Then find somewhere beautiful to sit, like beside a fountain in a village square or under a plane tree with the sound of church bells in the distance.

💚 Why go with UnTours?
Our Provence Food & Wine UnTour combines curated culinary experiences with the freedom to explore independently.

You’ll unPack once in the Provençal countryside, join experiences led by local chefs, artisans, and winemakers, then spend the rest of your time wandering hilltop villages, pottering through markets, and discovering your own favorite corners of southern France.

We designed it for travelers who want to go beyond sightseeing and understand Provence through the people who cook, grow, pour, and preserve its traditions.

If you’d like to see how our Provence Food & Wine UnTour works, you’ll find the details at the link in our bio.

There are some places that are genuinely hard to get to any other way. 🌊

🐧 Antarctica, for one.

🇳🇴 The remote Norwegian coastline above the Arctic Circle, where the Northern Lights do things on a clear winter night that still feel impossible even when you're looking directly at them.

🇮🇳 The Ganges at dawn, watched from a vessel that Antara hand-built specifically for India's rivers, with local chefs cooking in the galley and every rupee staying in the communities you pass through.

For places like these, a small ship with a genuine commitment to the places it sails is probably the best way we know of to actually be there rather than just pass through.

That's what we went looking for when we built this cruise collection. It took a while to find the right ones but we think we did.

You can view the full collection here: untours.com/travel-styles/cruises And if you're not seeing the destination where you'd love to cruise, drop a comment below and we'll get searching 💬

We found one of the best places in Europe to watch the 2026 solar eclipse. It involves a 16th-century winery, a hilltop picnic, and a private spot in the Rioja vineyards.

Here's the thing about a total solar eclipse. You can find a viewing spot, hope for clear skies, and stand in a field with a few thousand strangers. Plenty of people will do exactly that, and it'll still be extraordinary. But your UnGuide Jon has been living in Bilbao for years, and he had a different idea.

He's designed the day around the eclipse path. It starts in the underground caves of a family winery where wine has been made since the 16th century, followed by a tasting, then a hilltop picnic. Then your own private spot, away from the crowds, with someone alongside you who can explain what's happening as the temperature drops and the birds go quiet and the sky above the Rioja vineyards goes dark in the middle of the afternoon.

If this sounds like how you'd want to watch the eclipse, the full plan is here: https://www.untours.com/basque-country-the-total-solar-eclipse-northern-spain

Only a few spots left! The UnTour you need to book is the Basque Country for August 8-15 (the eclipse is on August 12)

Paris has a version for people who are passing through, and a version for people who stay a little longer. 🇫🇷

The passing-through version is wonderful. The Eiffel Tower at dusk, the Seine at golden hour, a café crème at a pavement table. No complaints.

But the staying version is the one we love.

It’s having an apartment in a cute little neighborhood and discovering that the boulangerie around the corner makes the best baguette on the block. It’s finding yourself on a first-name basis with the cheese vendor at the market. It’s wandering into the Rodin Museum on a Wednesday morning simply because you feel like it. It’s lingering longer than planned in a neighborhood of the city because there’s nowhere else you need to be. And it’s getting recommendations from someone who actually lives there.

If you’ve experienced both versions of Paris, you know exactly what we’re talking about.

Which version have you had? 👇

New to UnTours? We’re the world’s first B Corp travel company, and we’ve been doing slow travel since before it had a name. Every UnTour includes a private apartment in a liveable neighborhood, an UnGuide who helps you find the places that the locals love, and everything you need to feel at home from day one, including a transit pass and a museum pass. Head to https://www.untours.com to find out more.

How to decide which Christmas markets to go to this year: Alsace, Vienna, or the Rhine? 🎄👇

✨ Choose Alsace if…
You love the idea of wandering from village to village, discovering markets tucked between half-timbered houses and decorated squares. From Strasbourg and Colmar to tiny towns with their own holiday traditions, Alsace is full of festive food, handmade decorations, and plenty of Christmas atmosphere.

🎻 Choose Vienna if…
You want Christmas markets with a side of imperial elegance. Vienna brings grand squares, classical music, festive cafés, and markets framed by palaces and historic buildings. Come for the atmosphere, stay for the sachertorte and coffeehouse culture.

🍷 Choose the Rhine if…
You’d rather slow down and settle in. Stay in a town like Bacharach, cross the Rhine by ferry, browse markets in riverside towns, bake Christmas cookies, sip wine in cozy cellars, and end the day somewhere that feels familiar by the end of the week.

There’s no wrong answer.

At UnTours, we love Christmas markets because they’re about seasonal traditions, warm drinks on cold evenings, local food, and the feeling of being somewhere that fully embraces this time of year.

So… which one is top of your list right now?

Learn more about our Christmas market UnTours here: https://www.untours.com/travel-styles/christmas-markets

Our NEW Rhine Valley Christmas Markets UnTour is now open for bookings! 🎄🇩🇪

For one festive week, you’ll get to call Bacharach, Germany home. Picture half-timbered houses, candlelit wine cellars, vineyard hills brushed with winter frost, and the scent of mulled wine drifting through medieval streets.

In true UnTour fashion, you won’t be racing from market to market trying to see everything. You’ll have time to settle into Bacharach, find your favorite bakery, get familiar with the streets, and enjoy the season at a more comfortable pace.

With your UnGuide Hans by your side, you’ll explore beloved Christmas markets in nearby Rhine towns, visit castles and historic villages, bake traditional German Christmas cookies, sip regional wines 🍷, and discover why Germans take their holiday traditions very seriously… in the best possible way.

And yes, there’s built-in free time to linger over coffee and fresh bread from the bakery, circle back to that market stall because you’re still thinking about the hand-carved ornament or hop on a train or ferry to explore another Rhine town that caught your eye.

If your idea of Christmas magic includes warm lights, honest food, good conversation, and a storybook town along the Rhine, this one might be calling your name. ✨

✨ December 8 to 15, 2026
🎄 Minimum of just 4 guests

Could you see yourself spending Christmas season in Bacharach, Germany? Tell us below. 👇

Cruise differently in India.

On this immersive journey, you’ll call the river home, drifting along the sacred Ganges River through one of the country’s most culturally layered regions. From the deck of the beautifully restored Bengal Ganga, Life unfolds slowly here. You’ll watch villages pass by, step ashore for workshops with master weavers and Indigenous artisans, and trace stories carried in cloth, clay, and everyday ritual.

In true UnTours fashion, you’ll have time to settle into the rhythm of the river, get to know riverside towns, and let Bengal reveal itself at its own pace, from terracotta temples and colonial-era enclaves to moments of striking modernity along the banks.

You can shape the journey to suit you. Begin with a five-night land extension through Delhi and Jaipur before joining the ship in Kolkata. Or linger afterwards in Darjeeling, where tea gardens, mountain air, and a winding railway invite you to slow down even more. Or do both.

Family-run and deeply local, our cruise partner reintroduced river cruising to India after a 100-year pause. Hand-built ships, local chefs, community-led excursions, and a low-impact philosophy keep every interaction personal and every rupee close to home.

What questions do you have about a cruise in India? We’d love to answer them.

Ivan has a tip he gives every traveler before visiting the villages around Oaxaca 👇

Many people in the surrounding communities speak Spanish as a second language. Their first language is Zapotec, one of the oldest living languages in the Americas, still spoken daily, still passed between generations.

"Greeting Zapotec people in their language makes them feel happy," Ivan says, "and will help our UnTourists feel more than welcomed."

That detail - that small, human, specific piece of knowledge - is the difference between being a tourist and being a guest.

It's also exactly why Ivan does this work. ❤️

He was born here. He backpacked across Mexico as a young man and came home knowing one thing for certain: he wanted to show his city to people who genuinely wanted to see it.

🌮 If you’re a foodie, don’t miss our next Flavors of Oaxaca Special UnTour running August 29 – September 5, 2026!

Spend 7 days in Oaxaca with Ivan as your UnGuide exploring markets, mole, mezcal, Zapotec villages, Monte Albán, and the stories, flavors, and local context that come from someone who grew up here.

Or visit anytime on one of our classic Oaxaca UnTours.

🔗 https://www.untours.com/destinations/mexico/oaxaca