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Tell us your dream
One conversation, no form.
A 30-minute call with a trip designer — no templates, no 40-field form. Tell us what you want the trip to feel like, not where you think you should go.
A travel studio · Est. 2010
The world, written
by hand.
Sixteen years of itineraries nobody else would write — hand-drafted by designers who live in the places they send you, delivered by humans on the ground from Fez to Hokkaidō.
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Sixty countries · twelve hundred stories
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Studio manifesto
A trip isn't a PDF. It's a fixer in Fez who knows which riad still serves the old tagine, a skipper in Milos who moves the anchor when the wind turns, a car waiting at 4 a.m. because the volcano is finally clear.
60+Countries
1,200+Itineraries
98%Would book again
16 yrsOn the road
How it works
Three steps between you and somewhere you'll remember.
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We craft the itinerary
Written by hand. Always.
Your designer draws on a 16-year network of fixers, skippers, private guides, and chefs. You get a draft inside 72 hours — a real document, not a generated PDF.
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You pack your bag
We handle everything else.
Flights, ground transfers, permits, tables, concierge, a real person on WhatsApp in your time zone. If the volcano closes, we already have plan B by the time you wake up.
Signature experiences
Small moments you won't find on a booking site.
Every itinerary we write has at least three of these — hand-booked, never outsourced, always with a real person on the other end when the weather changes.
Private ritual
Tea with a monk at dawn
Daitoku-ji · Kyoto
Aerial
Heli over the blue-ice tongues
Perito Moreno · Patagonia
Overnight
Berber camp under the Milky Way
Erg Chigaga · Morocco
Chase the light
Aurora expedition with a photographer
Þingvellir · Iceland
Stay
A villa hidden in the jungle canopy
Ubud · Bali
Overnight sail
Drifting a Norwegian fjord after midnight
Geirangerfjord · Norway
Harvest
Pressing oil at a 500-year-old Tuscan estate
Val d'Orcia · Tuscany
Underwater
Private dive with a marine biologist at dawn
Raja Ampat · Indonesia
Kind words
Great trips don't happen without a team on the ground.
BLOOMBERG
“We've been booking with ant·byte for six years. Every trip keeps topping the last — this year's Hokkaidō week was the best holiday of my life.”
PM
Priya Menon
Repeat traveler · 11 trips
MONOCLE
“The guide they paired us with in Kyoto wasn't a guide — she was a friend we happen to know now. That's the magic nobody else is selling.”
DG
David Grau
Creative Director
CONDÉ NAST
“I've been using boutique agencies for 25 years. Ant·byte is the only one that never once sent a PDF. Every single touch is bespoke.”
WM
Wallis Mills
Travel editor
STRIPE
“The Patagonia itinerary they wrote for us is locked in a drawer at my house. Best three weeks of my life; I read it back on bad Mondays.”
JF
Jonny Fruits
Engineering lead
NOTION
“Three honeymoons in, because we keep finding excuses. Their Bali week was better than the first. The second. The real one.”
ED
Eric Davies
Founder
QUINTESSENTIALLY
“I trust them with my clients' biggest anniversaries — and I'm picky. They handled a 40-person surprise in Marrakech without one wobble.”
HK
Hana Kobayashi
Private concierge
BAIN
“They rebooked a cancelled heli-ski morning into an impromptu Jozankei onsen afternoon with the best lunch of my trip. That's the job.”
TA
Tomás Alvarez
Partner
AIRBNB
“Zero friction, zero churn. I just forward them a date range and they send back a plan I'd pay to read as fiction. That's the whole review.”
LO
Leah Okonkwo
GM
HARVARD
“The Galápagos liveaboard they found us isn't listed anywhere online. Twelve days, six islands, and a naturalist who called every bird by its Galápagos name. I checked.”
DJ
Dr. James Osei
Professor of Biology
SHOPIFY
“We told them our budget was flexible and that we wanted to feel something. They sent us to Bhutan. I didn't check my email once in eleven days. That's a miracle.”
SB
Saoirse Brennan
CEO
SEQUOIA
“My entire team of twelve did the East Africa fly-in. Fourteen camps, zero complaints, one buffalo charge from a safe distance. Best offsite we've ever done.”
MW
Marcus Webb
VP Operations
NATIONAL GEO
“I've been a travel journalist for fifteen years. I still can't explain how they got us a private morning at Machu Picchu. I suspect they know someone.”
CR
Carmen Reyes
Senior Correspondent
BLOOMBERG
“We've been booking with ant·byte for six years. Every trip keeps topping the last — this year's Hokkaidō week was the best holiday of my life.”
PM
Priya Menon
Repeat traveler · 11 trips
MONOCLE
“The guide they paired us with in Kyoto wasn't a guide — she was a friend we happen to know now. That's the magic nobody else is selling.”
DG
David Grau
Creative Director
CONDÉ NAST
“I've been using boutique agencies for 25 years. Ant·byte is the only one that never once sent a PDF. Every single touch is bespoke.”
WM
Wallis Mills
Travel editor
STRIPE
“The Patagonia itinerary they wrote for us is locked in a drawer at my house. Best three weeks of my life; I read it back on bad Mondays.”
JF
Jonny Fruits
Engineering lead
NOTION
“Three honeymoons in, because we keep finding excuses. Their Bali week was better than the first. The second. The real one.”
ED
Eric Davies
Founder
QUINTESSENTIALLY
“I trust them with my clients' biggest anniversaries — and I'm picky. They handled a 40-person surprise in Marrakech without one wobble.”
HK
Hana Kobayashi
Private concierge
BAIN
“They rebooked a cancelled heli-ski morning into an impromptu Jozankei onsen afternoon with the best lunch of my trip. That's the job.”
TA
Tomás Alvarez
Partner
AIRBNB
“Zero friction, zero churn. I just forward them a date range and they send back a plan I'd pay to read as fiction. That's the whole review.”
LO
Leah Okonkwo
GM
HARVARD
“The Galápagos liveaboard they found us isn't listed anywhere online. Twelve days, six islands, and a naturalist who called every bird by its Galápagos name. I checked.”
DJ
Dr. James Osei
Professor of Biology
SHOPIFY
“We told them our budget was flexible and that we wanted to feel something. They sent us to Bhutan. I didn't check my email once in eleven days. That's a miracle.”
SB
Saoirse Brennan
CEO
SEQUOIA
“My entire team of twelve did the East Africa fly-in. Fourteen camps, zero complaints, one buffalo charge from a safe distance. Best offsite we've ever done.”
MW
Marcus Webb
VP Operations
NATIONAL GEO
“I've been a travel journalist for fifteen years. I still can't explain how they got us a private morning at Machu Picchu. I suspect they know someone.”
CR
Carmen Reyes
Senior Correspondent
Meet the studio
Real people, always on the ground.
Each designer lives and works in the region they plan. No franchises, no outsourcing — the person who writes your itinerary is the person who picks up when it rains.
East Africa · Morocco
Maya Okonkwo
“I once moved an entire camp 40km overnight to chase a meteor shower. The clients called it the best night of their lives.”
Desert overlanding, festival timingWrite →
Japan · Taiwan
Kento Arai
“The best ryokan in Japan doesn't have a website. It's on a side street in Yufuin and the owner cooks for eight guests a night.”
Ryokan, omakase, temple staysWrite →
Patagonia · Andes
Sofía Varela
“If the wind is right, we can get you to a glacier nobody's photographed yet. If it isn't, we drink malbec and wait.”
Treks, heli-hikes, estancia lifeWrite →
Iceland · Faroes
Lukas Þórsson
“I'll wake you at 2 a.m. if the sky is worth it. I won't if it isn't. That's the deal — you can sleep through a bad night.”
Aurora windows, fjord routesWrite →
South Asia · Sri Lanka
Ananya Krishnan
“Kerala works best if you arrive with nothing planned after day two. The houseboat captain always knows a canal the maps don't show.”
Ayurveda, spice routes, backwatersWrite →
Brazil · Peru · Cuba
Rafael Andrade
“I once chartered a single-engine plane to get clients to a Peruvian village for a market day that happens once a year. They still talk about it.”
Amazon expeditions, colonial citiesWrite →
From the journal
Stories from the road behind the itinerary.
Field notes · Kyoto
Why we stopped booking five-star ryokans.
After eleven years of ryokan stays, we'd rather tell you about the two-room place in Kibune where the host still cooks the kaiseki herself.
7 minApr 2026
Dispatch · Patagonia
A week of cold in Chilean Patagonia.
What the gear lists don't tell you: it's not the wind, it's how quickly the wind ends a conversation. Notes from the W-trek in shoulder season.
9 minMar 2026
Dispatch · Tanzania
What nobody tells you about safari in the rain.
The dry season photos are all over Instagram. But the short rains bring something else — a stillness and a predator-to-tourist ratio that will ruin you.
10 minFeb 2026
Quarterly dispatch
Four letters a year.
Nothing else.
A printed-magazine-style dispatch four times a year — a feature trip, a field-note essay, a recipe from a guide, and the one place we think you should go next season.