El Camino Travel

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31/08/2026

The cook who teaches you her family’s recipe in a kitchen that’s never once been staged for a menu. The weaver who’s spent decades perfecting a craft passed down through generations, and still makes room to show you how it’s done. The guide who knows his country’s history because he’s lived it — complicated parts included.

Meeting them is the whole point.

Every El Camino Travel itinerary starts with a relationship, not a landmark — real access, real people, and the time it actually takes to know a place instead of just looking at it as bystanders.

That kind of access doesn’t come from showing up. Even for a confident, well-traveled group, it rarely happens on its own — it takes years of relationships most people don’t have the time, or reason, to build. We’ve spent over a decade building them in some of the world’s most remote corners and communities, the places that often feel hardest to access precisely because so few people have gone before us.

If that’s the kind of travel you’re after — the people, the context, the parts that rarely make it into a guidebook or a trending reel — you’re who we built El Camino for.

28/08/2026

Meet Emily Brungard, El Camino bold women traveler.

She’s a social media strategist and content creator whose passion lies in food—where it comes from, how it’s made, how it connects us. She’s also the woman behind Indy Food | Taste Indianapolis, an Instagram account she started in 2019 because she was tired of seeing chains and non-local businesses get all the attention when Indianapolis’ food scene had so much more to offer. What began as an excuse to eat out and get to know the people behind the counters has grown into a genuine community—she’s posted every three days for seven years and counting. She’s since expanded into hosting bake sales that bring Indy’s best small bakers together under one roof, including one that raised over $1,000 for a local organization fighting food insecurity.

We sat down with Emily to talk about community—the kind she’s built in Indianapolis, one bake sale and one small business at a time, and the kind she finds on every El Camino trip, from a Georgian supra to a market stall in Senegal.

As Emily says, it always comes back to the same thread: community—supporting and nurturing it, celebrating it, building it, giving back to it.

Swipe through to meet her.

11/08/2026

Sri Lanka is one trip. We design nine more like it every year.

Every trip is designed with the same intention: deep relationships with the people hosting us, real connection with the strangers you’re traveling alongside, and a photographer handling the documenting so you don’t have to.

Right now, we still have spots open on Vietnam, Brazil, and Northern India for end of year 2026 travel.

We’re also about to launch our full 2027 lineup and we’re heading back to Sri Lanka in 2027.

If you want to be first to know when trips open up for booking, sign up for our newsletter — link in bio, or at elcaminotravel.com/newsletter.

Big announcements coming soon!

Who is the El Camino Travel woman? We get asked this question a lot, so let us introduce you to her.She’s usually the fi...
27/07/2026

Who is the El Camino Travel woman? We get asked this question a lot, so let us introduce you to her.

She’s usually the first among her friends to go somewhere. Not because she’s trying to prove anything — it’s just how she’s wired. She’ll take the harder trek, the less-charted region, the dish nobody else at the table will order.

She’s not looking to live the same life in a different location — the same comforts, the same access, just with a better view. She wants to be stretched, pushed a little past what’s familiar, awed by something bigger than she expected. She travels to be stimulated — culturally, intellectually, creatively.

She knows she’s a guest — in a private kitchen that’s usually just for family, in an artist’s studio, in a weaver’s workshop where a craft has been passed down for generations. She doesn’t take that lightly. Being welcomed in means something back from her too — real attention, real presence, not just showing up to “look.”

She seeks the guide who’s genuinely passionate about their country — who wants to talk about what makes it complicated, not just what makes it beautiful. She asks questions. She wants the history and the context, the parts that aren’t always easy to sit with. She doesn’t need a place made more palatable for her. She wants it as it is.

She’s not chasing a version of the world that’s been made easy for her. She’s chasing the real one, even when it asks something of her in return.

Especially then.

And she’d rather do this in community — surrounded by women who are chasing the same thing.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to meet you. If you’ve got the photo-reply feature on, share a photo in the comment below of a travel moment where you really embraced the El Camino woman mentality. If not, tell us instead — the story, the place, what it changed.

We can’t wait to meet you.

05/07/2026

Meet Sophia D**g, El Camino bold women traveler.

She’s a software engineer at Netflix, a real estate agent, a travel advisor, and someone who took a gap year after high school and never looked back. An introvert who learned that diving into the unknown is where growth happens.

We sat down with Sophia to talk about her El Camino trip to Georgia—about supras and winemakers, and the moment she walked into local host Keti’s home and realized this was the kind of travel moment that changes you.

Swipe through to meet her.

26/06/2026

Is Mongolia on your bucket list?

Ayubowan! It means “may you live long” in Sinhalese.It’s the greeting we’ve been hearing everywhere — from hotel staff, ...
23/06/2026

Ayubowan! It means “may you live long” in Sinhalese.

It’s the greeting we’ve been hearing everywhere — from hotel staff, from strangers, from the Kandyan dancers we found ourselves moving alongside this morning in the city of Kandy. If you haven’t guessed already or peeped our Stories this week, we’re a few days into El Camino Travel’s first Sri Lanka trip.

We started in Colombo, where we visited an artist cooperative in the middle of the city that had one of the coolest listening rooms I’ve been in. From there, upcountry — tea-covered hills that look genuinely like scenes from The Jungle Book, mist, green, emerald green rolling hills everywhere. And this afternoon, we arrived at the beaches of Trincomalee — just in time for sunset on the eastern coast.

While we’ve been meeting so many incredible individuals along the way, we’ve also been eating extraordinarily well: hoppers, curries of all types, buffalo curd, roti. My first meal off the plane was fish curry at the hotel. As soon as I took my first bite, the spices exploded in my mouth. I took a big inhale, closed my eyes, and remembered exactly why Sri Lankan food is some of my favorite in the world. The flavors are like no other.

Here are a few snapshots from our talented on trip photographer Alina Tsvor

Interested in joining us in Sri Lanka in 2027? Comment below or DM us and we'll follow up with next steps.

xx- Katalina Mayorga

16/06/2026

The Japan in this Reel isn’t the one you’ll find on most itineraries.

This September, we’re taking a small group of thoughtful travelers north to Tohoku — the mountainous stretch of northern Honshu where fewer than 2% of visitors to Japan ever make it. About as far from the Kyoto-Tokyo circuit as you can get while still being on the same island.

Some of what we’re building the trip around:

Climbing the 2,446 cedar-lined stone steps of Mt. Haguro with a yamabushi mountain priestess

A night in a pilgrim lodge that’s hosted travelers for 300 years, over a dinner of shojin ryori — the temple cuisine that helped earn this region a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy designation

Sakata’s wonton ramen, in a shop one couple has run for decades

Meeting the woman about to become the first female head of her family’s sake distillery in five generations

A morning on Matsushima Bay with the oyster farmers who rarely see any of the tourism that moves through

We design around depth, not checklist or distance covered — which is why the group stays small and every application gets read for fit.

🔗 Apply via the link in bio, or DM us with questions.

✨ Bold women travelers don’t all look the same.Some have passports falling apart at the seams. Some are getting on a pla...
05/06/2026

✨ Bold women travelers don’t all look the same.

Some have passports falling apart at the seams. Some are getting on a plane alone for the first time. Some signed up before they felt anywhere close to ready.

What connects them isn’t the miles. It’s the yes. To the conversation in a language they don’t speak. To the dish they can’t pronounce. To the trip they almost didn’t take.

That woman is who we design for. The boldness was hers first. We just gave it somewhere to go.

🔗 Link in bio to apply and join us for one of our trips in 2026! ✨

31/05/2026

What we care most about, as a company, is designing travel that asks something of you.

Travel that pushes you past your comfort zone. That reminds you how capable you actually are. That doesn’t hand you the answer — it makes you work for it a little.

It’s why we say, plainly, that we’re not for everyone.

We’re for the traveler who wants to be changed by a place, not just photographed in front of it. Who’d rather share a meal with a herding family in Mongolia and actually be present than tick another country off a list. Who comes home with better questions than the ones they left with.

In a world this chaotic, that kind of travel might be exactly what you’ve been looking for.

One spot just opened on our sold-out Mongolia departure — September 5–13.

Link in bio to learn more, or comment below and we’ll follow up. xx

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