Est. MMXVIII · Small-group travel · Eight journeys, a year

Small journeys,
carefully made.

We design slow, considered itineraries for travelers who'd rather walk a quiet valley than board a bus. Eight trips a year. Maximum ten guests each.

See this year's journeys Our philosophy

"A slower pace, a smaller group, a guide who knew everyone by name."

— Noor & Haruki, Dolomites '25

Our philosophy

Travel, rearranged.

Most tour operators sell sights. We design days. The long lunch at a farmhouse table. The four-hour walk where you stop and swim. The morning spent drinking coffee with the local guide who grew up in the next valley.

Our journeys run with a maximum of ten guests. They're built around the rhythms of the place — the market days, the weather windows, the seasons you'd miss if you were in a hurry.

Eight carefully chosen regions · 84 trips run to date · 642 happy travelers.

MMXXVI · This year's journeys

Eight journeys. Ten seats each.

See the full calendar →

Featured · 7 nights

The Dolomites, on foot.

Sep 14 — Sep 21

A hut-to-hut walk across the Alta Via 1, with overnights in rifugios that have served strudel for a century. Six walking days. Not a shuttle in sight.

From

€4,940

per guest · 4 seats remaining

May 08 — May 15

7 nights · Japan

The Shikoku 88, quietly.

Five days on the pilgrimage path, two at a mountain ryokan. A temple dinner, a cedar bath, and a lot of silence.

Oaxaca, at the market's pace.

Days of Dead in the villages outside the city. Mezcal with the family still making it, weavings from the loom you're sitting beside.

$4,180

· 6 seats open

Feb 02 — Feb 12

10 nights · Patagonia

Patagonia, end-of-the-world summer.

Estancia mornings, glacier afternoons. A week in Torres del Paine with three nights in the quiet northern circuit.

$7,680

· 2 seats remaining

Jun 11 — Jun 17

6 nights · Faroe Islands

The Faroes, in long light.

Seven days of 21-hour daylight, sea cliffs, turf-roofed churches, and the sort of North Atlantic sheep that watch you walk past.

€4,340

· 8 seats

Journeys run

Max guests per trip

Regions we love

72%

Travel with us twice

The regions

Eight places we return to, year after year.

North Africa · Spring

Kerala Backwaters

India · Winter

Field Notes

Essays from the road.

All essays →

Note 042 · Italy

On walking slowly in the Dolomites, with Giada.

Our local guide on why her grandmother's generation walked this path in silence — and what you learn by doing the same.

Note 041 · Japan

The 88-temple path, stripped of ceremony.

Five days on the Shikoku pilgrimage without pretense — what the real walkers carry, and what they leave behind.

Note 040 · Oaxaca

Sunday in Tlacolula — a market, a grandmother, a mole.

The particular, unhurried Sundays that make a week in Oaxaca feel twice as long as it is.

Our guides

Fourteen people who made this home.

Our guides aren't generalists sent from a call center. They grew up in these valleys, studied these mountains, cooked in these kitchens.

Every journey is led by two: one local, one Kinfolk. The stories you hear are their own.

Meet them all →

Giada Marescotti

Dolomites · Born in Cortina

Tomoya Arai

Shikoku · Zen temple-trained

Lucía Mendoza

Oaxaca · Third-generation weaver

Eirik Mortensen

Faroes · Lived in Tórshavn 22 yrs

— ※ —

We'd done three or four "luxury" tours before. This was the first trip that felt like we were travelers, not cargo. Two weeks later, we booked Patagonia.

Noor al-Rashid & Haruki Enomoto

Dolomites '25 · Returning Patagonia '26

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We answer every email ourselves, usually within a day. We're especially happy to help if you're choosing between two trips and can't decide.

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