Epic Destinations

We specialize in trips that change the way you see the world. These are the destinations worth planning around, saving for, and showing up to fully. What's on your bucket list? We're here to get it off the vision board and into your passport.
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  • Lalibela

    You’ve probably heard of the rock-hewn temples and tombs of Petra in Jordan, but have you heard of the rock churches of Lalibela? Tucked into the highlands of northern Ethiopia at nearly 8,000 feet, this small mountain town is home to eleven medieval churches carved directly downward into volcanic red rock, dating back to the…

  • Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

    Standing on the Roof of Africa is both an exercise in persistence and a memory you’ll recount for decades. The highest peak on the continent and one of the Seven Summits, Kilimanjaro doesn’t require technical climbing experience to reach the top. What it does require is time, patience, and a willingness to chill out and…

  • Sahara Overland

    Africa’s Sahara is the largest hot desert on earth, and crossing it overland is one of those experiences that entirely recalibrates your sense of scale entirely. Time and space in the desert are on their own agenda. You adapt to it. Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia each offer their own distinct entry point into a desert…

  • Antarctica

    The seventh continent has no permanent human population, no government, no currency, and no reason to go — except that once you do, nothing else quite measures up. Antarctica is the coldest, driest, windiest continent on earth, and it is breathtakingly, impossibly beautiful. Icebergs the size of city blocks drift past in silence. Penguin colonies…

  • Bhutan

    There are fewer than 800,000 people in the entire kingdom of Bhutan, and until 1974, there were no tourists at all! This deliberate, unhurried relationship with the outside world is still felt everywhere you go. Nestled in the shadow of the Himalayas, it is not an easy country to get to, and most of its…

  • Uganda Gorilla Trekking

    Trekking through the dense jungles of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in hopes of spotting a mountain gorilla family is one of the few travel experiences that genuinely has the power to reframe your place in the world. Little comes close to the moment when you’re sitting six feet from a silverback snacking on leaves, unhurried…

  • Palau

    There are places that stop you mid-breath, and Palau is one of them. I’ve dived in a lot of oceans, but nothing quite prepared me for the moment I dropped below the surface here for the first time. The water is almost absurdly clear, the coral impossibly intact, and the sheer density of marine life…