Slow journeys to the quiet edges of the map.
Private, tailor-made travel for people who would rather go deeper than further. Drawn by hand in Lisbon since 2011.
Now planning
Winter & Spring 2027
(01) The studio
We are eight people in a small studio in Lisbon. We plan private journeys for two to six travellers, one at a time, around how you like to move, eat and rest. No catalogue and no group tours. Just a long conversation and a trip that could only be yours.
14 yrs
Planning slow travel
62
Countries walked by our team
1
Planner from first call to flight home
(02) Selected journeys
Places we keep going back to
Nov – Mar
Patagonia, End of the Road
Granite towers at first light, estancias with no signal, and a private skipper through the fjords of Aysén.
Chile & Argentina
14 days
From $12,400
Oct – Dec
Kyoto in Slow Light
Temples before the crowds, a ryokan with its own garden, and an evening with a seventh-generation tea master.
Japan
10 days
From $9,800
May – Oct
Skeleton Coast & Sossusvlei
Fly over dunes that run into the Atlantic, then track desert elephants with a guide who grew up on the land.
Namibia
12 days
From $14,200
Jan – Mar
Lofoten Winter Light
Fishermen's cabins on the water, four hours of blue daylight, and the northern lights from your own sauna.
Norway
8 days
From $7,600
(03) The index
Every journey, one line at a time
(04) How it works
Four slow steps, then you go
Most journeys take six to ten weeks to plan. You talk to one person the whole way through, and that person picks up the phone while you travel.
A long conversation
An hour on the phone, or over coffee in Lisbon. We ask how you like to wake up, what you skipped on your last trip and why.
A first draft, by hand
Within ten days you get a written itinerary with maps, photographs and the reasoning behind every stay. No templates.
Refine until it fits
We change it as many times as you need. Most trips go through three drafts. Some go through seven, and that is fine.
Travel with a host
Your planner is on call for the whole journey. Local hosts meet you on the ground, and nothing is left for you to book.
(05) A note from the road
“We stood on a dune at five in the morning and nobody said a word for twenty minutes. That was the whole point, and they knew it before we did.”
Inês & Tomás
Namibia · 12 days · March 2026