About Explore Greece

A small outfit,
built on a home
we refuse to leave.

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.

8Regions
12Years afield
60+Routes
5.0Guest rating
The Explore Greece team, after hoursSince 2011 · Peloponnese
Our mission

We 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.

Unveiling the heartbeat of Greece
Since 2011, from Kalamata to the Cyclades.
What we believe

Three things we will not compromise on.

01

Travel that transforms.

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.

02

Light on the land.

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.

03

Rooted in the village.

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.

Guided by nature
and community.

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.

01

Zero-Plastic Initiative

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.

02

The Taste of the Land

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.

03

Supporting Local Economies

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.

04

Leave No Trace

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.

05

Environmental Advocacy

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.

06

Travelife Certified

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.

The people

Four humans,
one stubborn coast.

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.

KaterinaKalamata

Katerina

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
TrifonasAll weathers

Trifonas

Customer 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.

  • Certified Mountain Leader — SAEK
  • Sea Kayak Coach & Moderate Water Leader — British Canoeing
  • Certified Mountain Bike Leader — HATEOA
GeorgeOn the water

George

Head 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.

  • Advanced Sea Kayak Leader — British Canoeing
  • Advanced Sea Kayak Coach — British Canoeing
  • HATEOA Assessor · Sea Kayak Training
  • Certified Mountain Bike Leader — HATEOA
FotisIn the mountains

Fotis

Head 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.

  • Certified Mountain Leader — SAEK
  • Advanced Canyoning Technical Competence · SFP2 — FFS
  • Sea Kayak Coach & Moderate Water Leader — British Canoeing
  • Certified Mountain Bike Leader — HATEOA
Accredited & audited

The groups we answer to.

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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Ready to see
our Greece?

Browse signature itineraries, or send us a short note about where and when. We write back — personally, from Kalamata — usually within a working day.