Eight travellers, maximum
Nine needs a second vehicle, a second guide and a schedule. Eight fits one table at dinner, which changes what the week feels like.
Small-group journeys · Four routes a year
Eight people, one guide, no coach
We plan a route around where it is worth waking up, then work backwards to the driving. It is slower. That is the entire product.
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How we travel
Three rules we do not bend
Never more than four hours moving
A day spent covering ground is a day you will not remember. Every leg is planned to end somewhere worth arriving in the afternoon.
The guide stays the whole way
Not a local handover at each border. The person who meets you at the start is the person who sees you off.
Leg 01 — the crossing
Erg Chebbi
Four days of dune, ending each afternoon before the light goes. Camp is moved twice; the rest of the time you walk.
Leg 02 — the ascent
Val Bregaglia
Up out of the heat into larch and granite. Two high nights, one hut, and a lake that is colder than it looks in the photographs.
Leg 03 — the crossing back
The Inner Islands
Boat, not bus. Three anchorages, no roads on two of them, and the only fixed appointment all week is the tide.
Leg 04 — the last light
Cape Sounion
The route ends at a temple on a headland, deliberately, because it is the one place everybody stops talking.
Guides
The same person, start to finish
Our guides have each walked their route more than twenty times, in every season it runs. That is the difference between someone who can answer a question and someone who knows which afternoon the weather usually turns.
They carry the first-aid kit, the permits and the local phone numbers. You carry a day bag.
- 8
- Travellers max
- 4
- Routes a year
- 20+
- Runs per guide
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Ask about a route
- Group size
- Eight, and we do not make exceptions
- Included
- Guide, transfers, permits, all nights
- Not included
- Flights, and the one dinner you will want to choose yourself