KalamataKaterina
Founder
Started the company fifteen years ago with a sea kayak, a map and a conviction that this coast deserved better than a postcard. Works behind the scenes now, shaping where we go next.
- Sea Kayak Award — British Canoeing
We design adventure trips and multi-day holidays in Greece — slow, carefully routed, deeply local. The kind of travel that starts with a long coffee and ends at someone's kitchen table.
Since 2011 · PeloponneseWe create immersive journeys that capture the unique spirit of Greece — the light on a stone wall, the salt on your skin after a long paddle, the kind of meal that lasts three hours and ends in song. We travel beyond the obvious, and we do it gently.
We believe the right journey rewires you a little. Small groups, slow days, long tables — the kind of trip that keeps surfacing in your memory months after you get home.
Indelible memories, minimal footprints. Every route is planned to leave the olive grove, the goat path and the sea exactly as we found them — often quieter.
We partner with the families who have farmed, fished and built this coast for generations. If you eat with us, you eat at their table. If you sleep with us, you sleep under their roof.
True discovery should not come at a cost to the land. Six concrete commitments define how we run every trip — audited, not aspirational.
If the olive groves, the kri-kri paths and the monk seals are still here in fifty years, some small part of that has to come from how we travel now.
Filtered water on every trip, reusable bottles for every guest. Single-use plastic has no place in a landscape we plan to hand to the next generation.
Picnics cooked at home by the people who grow what is in them. Fresh, local, seasonal — and a direct line to the small farms that keep these valleys alive.
Family-run guesthouses, village tavernas, the cooperative olive press. Your fee pays wages in the places you walk through — not to a head office on another continent.
Every guide is trained in the seven Leave No Trace principles. Our presence in the canyons and on the coast should be barely noticeable by the time we have gone.
We participate in and fund local conservation — sea-turtle protection on the Messinian coast, reforestation efforts on Mount Taygetos, clean-ups after the winter storms.
We are Travelife Certified — the leading international programme for sustainable tour operators. Our commitments are externally audited against strict social and environmental standards, not self-reported.
We are a small team of founders and guides — certified where it matters, opinionated where it counts, and raised within a day's drive of the routes we run. No franchise, no head office in another country.
KalamataFounder
Started the company fifteen years ago with a sea kayak, a map and a conviction that this coast deserved better than a postcard. Works behind the scenes now, shaping where we go next.
All weathersCustomer Care
Your first point of contact and the reason most trips run on time. Answers questions on land, at sea, and at 10pm when a flight is delayed. Find him on the live chat.
On the waterHead of Water
Runs every sea activity we offer. A paddle connoisseur with an encyclopaedic memory for currents, caves and the exact cove where the wind drops at four in the afternoon.
In the mountainsHead of Land
Jack of all outdoor trades. If you are deep in a gorge, high on a ridge, or somewhere a car cannot reach — Fotis has probably already been there and mapped the way out.
Travelife
Partner · sustainable tourism
ATTA
Adventure Travel Trade Association
Leave No Trace
Certified operator
British Canoeing
Provider & assessor
HATEOA
Hellenic outdoor accreditation
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