Tailor-Made
Tailor-made means the trip is built for you, from the first email to the last transfer. There is no fixed departure to join and no group to fit into: we start with how you like to travel, how long you have, and what you actually want to see, and the route follows from that.
I plan and lead these trips myself. That is a small number each year, because a route that fits one traveller rarely fits the next. You get one person who knows the terrain, the season and the driving times telling you honestly what works — and then booking it.
Some of my travellers photograph seriously. About half come for something else entirely: walking, birds, food, history, or simply time in places that are not built for crowds. Both are welcome here. The only thing the trips have in common is that the pace is yours and the distance is planned rather than improvised.
Featured journeys
Countries
Tailor-Made Trips to Peru
Tailor-made Peru trips built around altitude, distance and the places you actually want to see — coast, Andes and Amazon at your own pace.
Tailor-Made Trips to Chile
Private tailor-made trips to Chile — the Atacama, the lake country, Patagonia and Easter Island — designed and led by the same person, at your own pace.
Tailor-Made Trips to Ecuador
Private tailor-made trips to Ecuador: the Andes, the Amazon and the Galápagos, planned and led by the same person, at a pace that suits you.
Tailor-Made Trips to Cuba
Tailor-Made Trips to Costa Rica
From cloud forest to coast, plan a tailor-made Costa Rica trip around wildlife, photography and the pace that suits you.
Tailor-Made Trips to Colombia
Private tailor-made trips to Colombia — the Andes, coffee country and the Caribbean coast — designed and led by the same person, at your own pace.
Tailor-Made Trips to Argentina
Private tailor-made trips to Argentina — Patagonia, the Puna, Iguazú and the wine country — designed and led by the same person, at your own pace.
One person designs it and leads it. The person who answers your first email is the person standing next to you at the trailhead. No sales team, no handoff to a local agent after payment.
The plan is honest about distance. I will tell you when a route means two long drives for one afternoon somewhere, and I will say so before you book. Fewer places, done properly, is usually the better trip.
You know what happens next. I reply personally, usually within two working days, with a draft route and the reasoning behind it. Then two or three rounds of refinement before anything is booked.
Small numbers. A limited number of journeys each year, private by default, with carefully selected drivers, guides and lodge owners I have chosen over the years rather than whoever was available.