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We go where the road ends and real connection begins.

Every country has a side most visitors never reach. It might be a desert camp in Africa, a mountain village in Asia, a river town deep in Latin America. In Colombia, where we begin, it is glaciers near the equator, rainforest that runs into the Pacific, red desert canyons, and granite hills you reach by small plane and then by river. We build small-group journeys to the corners most visitors miss, and we go where culture lives.

Ciudad Perdida terraces above the jungle valleys of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta

Colombia, in seven places

One country, a lot of different worlds. These are the places we are building the pilot journey from.

01

Adventure

Ciudad Perdida

Four days on foot through the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to a city built about 1,200 years ago, older than Machu Picchu. We walk it with Kogui and Wiwa guides, who tell you what the stone steps mean before you climb them.

4 DaysKogui & Wiwa Guides
Stone steps on the trail to Ciudad Perdida
02

Nature

Tayrona

The world's highest coastal mountain range meets the Caribbean. Jungle, boulders and quiet coves, reached on foot.

Jungle CoastOn Foot
Tayrona coastline where the jungle meets the Caribbean
03

Nature & Culture

El Chocó

Rainforest that runs straight into the Pacific, on one of the wettest coasts on earth. Reached by small plane or boat, and home to Afro-Colombian and Emberá communities.

Pacific CoastSmall Plane
Rainforest running into the Pacific in El Chocó
04

Adventure

El Cocuy

Glaciers at the edge of the tropics. Snow peaks, high páramo, thin air and a lot of silence, in the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, a mountain range sacred to the U'wa people.

AltitudeGlaciers
Glaciers and páramo in the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy
05

Nature

Cerros de Mavecure

Three granite hills rising out of the jungle above the Inírida River, far in the east of Colombia. A plane, then the river.

River AccessDeep East
Granite hills of Mavecure above the Inírida River
06

Nature & Culture

Amazonas

River, forest and the people who live along it, in Colombia's far south.

River & ForestWildlife
River and forest in the Colombian Amazon
07

Culture & Nature

The Coffee Region & Tatacoa

Green mountains and working coffee farms, then a desert of red and gray canyons under one of the darkest skies in the country.

CoffeeDark Skies
Coffee farms in green mountains and the Tatacoa desert

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Why ELSEBOUND

Eight years on the road taught me one thing: the journey is only as good as the people you go with. I keep every group small, and I only take you where I love to go myself.

6 to 10Travelers per journey
8 yrsLiving as a nomad
146Countries and counting
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