New Zealand, Slowly: Why the Best of It Can’t Be Rushed
For a lot of travellers, New Zealand gets treated like a checklist: Auckland, Rotorua, Queenstown, Milford Sound, done in ten days flat. It looks small on a map, so it feels like it should move fast. Our travel designers, Storm Keen and Aimee Olson, just returned from weeks on the ground across both islands, and […]
The Secret Way to Explore Australia? It’s Island-Hopping
“I wish the world was twice as big,” David Attenborough once wrote, “and that half of it was still unexplored.” For travelers looking to Australia, we have the key to exploring one of the world’s most mysterious, barely charted places. While our on-the-ground experts have a wealth of land access, from the secrets of Uluru […]
In New Zealand, Always Choose the Helicopter
Flying thousands of feet above New Zealand’s North Island, a helicopter’s blades whir to a beat–chop chop chop–that booms like a drum. That magnetic rhythm that pulls us onward, over crater lakes and tumbling waterfalls, deep greens and craggy peaks. We’re on our way to Mount Tarawera, the (now dormant) site of the largest eruption […]
Fiji, Done Right: The Stopover That Becomes the Highlight
For most North American travellers, Fiji is a dot on the map somewhere between home and Australia or New Zealand – a place to break up a long flight, stretch your legs, and catch some sun before the “real” trip continues. Our founder, Leora Rothschild, just returned from a research trip across Fiji’s outer islands, […]
In the Footsteps of Gauchos
In the Footsteps of Gauchos Among the old guard of Patagonia’s cowboys In a corner of Chile’s southern wilderness, a rider appears among the green-gold grass and grey Andes mountains. He wears a woolen boina beret, high leather boots, and is followed by a string of shiny-coated ponies. He sits on his dark horse like […]
Wild, Wilder Patagonia
Wild, Wilder Patagonia At the bottom of the world, the wind has a mind of its own. It sighs and nestles into your neck, nips playfully at your clothes, demanding your attention. ‘Forget the rest of the world,’ it seems to say. ‘Watch how I move over the valleys and mountains, how I soar above the […]
