CURATING HOW TEAMS DISCOVER COLOMBIA AND LATIN AMERICA.
We design and curate, corporate retreats and bespoke journeys across Colombia and Latin America — for teams who care less about the itinerary and more about what it leaves behind.
A note before the itinerary
People rarely remember the hotel. They remember the conversation over dinner, the walk through a market, the story shared at the closing circle. We design for those moments — and quietly take care of everything around them.
Designed for
What we design
Offsites, leadership retreats and team weeks — designed around what your company is trying to become.
Ideal for
Founders, People & Culture, Executive teams
A few things we've designed
Private travel across Latin America — curated route by route, host by host, meal by meal.
Ideal for
Executives, boards, small private groups
A few things we've designed
One-day or one-evening moments — dinners in unusual places, tastings of things you haven't met, workshops with artisans, encounters that don't exist on any platform.
Ideal for
Incentives, board dinners, client hosting
A few things we've designed
We co-design the day with the community before we ever propose it to you — what happens, who takes part, on what terms. And we contract what they provide: the food, the transport, the market, the cultural presentation. Nobody gets visited. Everybody gets paid. It's the part of our work we're least willing to do badly.
Ideal for
Foundations, NGOs, purpose-led companies
A few things we've designed
How we work
01
We start with a conversation — not a proposal. What is this trip really for? Who is going, and where are they in their year?
02
A quiet, opinionated draft. Route, rhythm, hosts, moments. We show you a story before we show you a spreadsheet.
03
Two or three rounds together. We push back, you push back. Every choice earns its place.
04
On the ground, you notice the care and nothing else. Every host has been briefed. Every transition thought through.
05
We close well. What worked, the photographs, the small notes people wrote — and a way to carry it back into the work.
What we carry
No two gatherings carry the same list. We agree in the brief what's ours and what stays in-house — and then it's genuinely ours. No follow-up, no chasing, no wondering at midnight whether someone confirmed the bus.
Where you sleep
Rooms chosen for rest, not for rate. Held, confirmed and checked before anyone arrives.
Where you work
Venues and meeting rooms that hold a working session properly: screens, sound, power, bandwidth. Tested days before, not during.
How you move
Domestic flights, ground transfers, boats. Timed so nobody waits and nobody has to run.
What you eat
Restaurants held, private chefs briefed, and every dietary need carried from the first form to the last table.
What you do
Tastings, tours, workshops — and the unstructured hours between them. Both are designed.
What people are told
Every attendee hears from us before they pack, while they're here, and after they've gone home.
What they take home
Welcome kits and objects worth keeping, made and sourced here. Your brand where it belongs, and something of the place in everything else.
Who's there when something changes
Someone from Kurao is on the ground the whole time. When a plan moves, you hear it from us first.
What's left afterwards
A debrief, an honest report, the photographs and a recap film — so the week keeps working after the week.
Calm on the day is made weeks earlier. None of this is improvised.
One gathering, in full
A trading community, brought to Colombia in December — Medellín, Guatapé, Cartagena.
3
Cities
35
People
7
Days
4
Working sessions
3
Tours
7
Restaurants
1
Rum tasting
1
Private island
2
Colombian Christmas traditions
Eighteen of them needed to trade live to a public broadcast from a rented house, so we installed dedicated high-capacity internet three days early. One guest was vegan; across seven days and seven restaurants she never once had to explain herself, because we had already done it. They arrived in time for the "Alborada," the welcome to Christmas in Colombia, and on the final evening we took everyone out for "Día de las Velitas" to light candles before dinner — outside, at the hour it's actually done.
They rated the week 4.9 out of 5.
What they wrote afterwards had almost nothing to do with logistics.
“I had such an incredible time with so many deep, authentic conversations that I will never forget. What a fantastic group of people! Thank you Sam and everyone else for putting up with my vegan ass at all of the restaurants and making sure I got fed!”
“This journey has been more than just an adventure — it has been an opportunity for growth, learning, and connection. I have learned so much from each of you: about culture, resilience, kindness, and the beauty of embracing different perspectives. Thank you for making this trip a dream come true.”
Why Kurao
The kind that shows up in what isn't said, what isn't rushed, and what isn't there.
We live here. Our address book are friends, not vendors.
We start with what you want your team to feel, then build backwards from there.
We take a small number of clients each year. Every gathering has our full attention.
Small hotels, private homes, family kitchens. Nothing feels like a conference floor.
Chefs, guides, healers, farmers, artists — people we know by first name.
Every itinerary leaves income where it went, not photographs.
SAMANTHA DIAZ — FOUNDER & CURATOR
The person behind Kurao
Samantha is the friend everyone calls when planning something meaningful. She grew up in Colombia between long family lunches and other people's kitchens, learning early that the best gatherings are built out of attention — to a place, to a table, to the person across from you.
For ten years, she produced gatherings for others, and with every project, she refined her own way of doing things — connecting travel, events, local partnerships, cultural experiences and impact into one intentional approach. She started Kurao to bring all of that together, and to show Colombia through a different lens.
She'll be the person you speak to first, the person your team meets on arrival, and the person quietly making sure nothing feels rushed.
Start a conversation
Tell us a little about your team and what you're planning. Samantha reads every message personally and replies within two working days.