Sept 21-27, 2025
The Oaxaca they want to sell you is just one of the many Oaxacas that are now thriving, jostling, and innovating in this future-facing region with roots deeper than time. Not just any tour for any travelers, our League of Travelers adventure in Oaxaca is an expression of the beautiful world of Ana Paulina Garcia. She’ll bring us into her life of creative chefs and distillers and artists—new visionaries in an ancient culture—with the League founder Nathan Thornburgh as her co-host.
Co-founder, Journalist
Nathan Thornburgh
Fermenter, Restaurateur
Ana Paulina Garcia
Overview
The Oaxaca they want to sell you is just one of the many Oaxacas that are now thriving, jostling, and innovating in this future-facing region with roots deeper than time. Not just any tour for any travelers, our League of Travelers adventure in Oaxaca is an expression of the beautiful world of Ana Paulina Garcia. She’ll bring us into her life of creative chefs and distillers and artists—new visionaries in an ancient culture—with the League founder Nathan Thornburgh as her co-host.
R&K Host
Co-founder, Journalist
Nathan Thornburgh, a former TIME Magazine senior editor and foreign correspondent, co-founded Roads & Kingdoms in 2012 and ran the independent media company with Matt Goulding and Anthony Bourdain for years. He is an Emmy- and National Magazine Award-winning producer and editor and has reported everywhere from Russia to Iraq. R&K’s League of Travelers is his latest attempt to marry travel, journalism, and la dolce vita.
Local Guide
Restaurateur, fermentation guru
Our host in Oaxaca is Ana Paulina Garcia, the amazing co-owner of the cultish bakery Boulenc and fermentation shop Suculenta. Originally from northern Mexico, she has made waves in the city’s rich gastronomic scene by transforming Oaxaca’s teeming biodiversity into a wild range of ferments, from cardamom honey and mushroom pate to pumpkin relish and oil infused with local herbs. We can’t think of a better guide to bring us through the city’s bountiful markets, craft studios, and aromatic culinary enclaves. On day three, she’ll even bring us up into the mountains of Cuajimoloyas to hunt mushrooms with her friends and dine on rich mountain cuisine by the wood-fired chimenea.
Refined Hideaway
The latest bit of magic in the growing world of Boulenc, helmed by our host Paulina Garcia and her partners, Pan y Posada is something quite new for them and for Oaxaca City. It is a brand-new boutique design hotel in the very heart of Oaxaca yet with a refined tranquility that permeates each suite. It’s walking distance from every great thing in the city, and the breakfasts, well, this is a baker’s hotel…
Eve S.I was so inspired by the creative people we met… Yes, there is great food, but it’s the people that you will remember.
Amanda C.The connections R&K has in the community made this trip feel like a once-in-a-lifetime experience that could not be replicated by any other company.
Derek S.I loved how Paulina shared her friends…the artists, producers, chefs, guides who are special to her…this is what makes R&K trips so special.
Sept 7-15, 2025
From the misty matsutake-rich mountains of Ma Pin Guan to the hidden Bai enclaves of ancient Silk Road towns, this is a weeklong journey through China’s most varied province, a biodiversity hotspot home to more ethnic groups than any other. Yunnan: land of mushrooms, birthplace of tea. Led by the Chinese writer Jane Yang and Roads & Kingdoms co-founder Nathan Thornburgh, we begin in Shanghai and end in Dali, traversing four ancient towns that ring the storied Lake of Erhai—culminating in an extraordinary multi-course dinner in a secret restaurant for Chinese chefs.
Writer, Entrepreneur
Jane Yang
Co-founder, Journalist
Nathan Thornburgh
Oct 18-25, 2025
The only part of Spain never to fall to the Moors, Asturias remains defiant, delicious, distinctive. Our collaborator José Andrés comes from these mountains, and his ideas, passions and people are woven throughout this magical weeklong journey from the coast to the hills and back again.
Fixer, Producer, Explorer
Alejo Sabugo
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