Open a story about a lodge among the vineyards of Cafayate and you are one step from the destination it belongs to, with a map of what is around it. From there you reach the journeys that pass through, and from any of them the whole region. That is how a journey is designed, by connecting stories with destinations and routes, and it is how we have rebuilt Kallpa's website.
You can come in through any door, whether a story, a journey, a region, a destination or an interest such as wine or wildlife, and keep going from one piece to the next. We have always written about the places we work in. What has changed is that everything is now connected, so what our team knows from the ground is easier to find and to follow.
Journeys to adapt
The journeys section holds some fifty sample itineraries, from three-day building blocks in a single destination to routes of more than two weeks. Each has the route drawn on a map and the days in order, with driving distances, walks and where each night is spent, and closes with "For the planner": who the journey suits, why it is built the way it is and what to know before proposing it. They are sketched in broad strokes on purpose. Adapt them, combine them, or tell us what you would change and we will design the one your travellers need.
Stories to read and share
Around the journeys there are close to three hundred stories about places, lodges, treks, drives and the people behind them, to browse by region and destination or by interest. They are a good way to look into parts of the map you have not sold with us yet, and every destination page helps when someone new joins your team.
Whatever you find along the way, you can take with you. Every journey and every story saves as a PDF, map included, to keep on file or pass on to a colleague or a client.
Also on the site
The Sustainability page says where we stand as a Travelife Partner and what we have committed to, with the stories of this year's work below it: the first measurement of our carbon footprint and the three hundred native coihues we funded in a Patagonian forest hit by wildfires. The Health & Safety page has been rewritten for the companies that send us their travellers: what we need before they arrive, and what happens on the ground when something goes wrong.
Your price lists are where they always were: the Partner Area button in the menu takes you to the same login, and the links you had saved will take you to the new pages. French, German and Spanish editions are on their way, and our monthly newsletter will bring you the best of the new stories and journeys.
If there is a place, a route or a question you would like us to write about, tell your contact at Kallpa: that is how we choose what to write next.
