Ecuador. Since 2007.

We’ve been showing travelers Ecuador for almost two decades. Slowly.

CarpeDM Adventures was born in 2007 from a single Dead Poets Society line and a chance run-in at a Quito hostel. Today we’re the operator Lonely Planet sends you to, G Adventures’ Preferred Daytour Supplier for Ecuador, and the team behind two of the most respected lodges in the Cuyabeno Amazon. We didn’t grow by going faster. We grew by going deeper.

How We Got Here

2007. CarpeDM was born. Prepping for English class in Quito. Dead Poets Society on in the background. Robin Williams as Professor Keating: “Carpe diem. Make your life extraordinary.” The line landed. The name shifted. Not “seize the day.” Doing More. Months later, a chance encounter with the Secret Garden manager led to a meeting with the owners. A handshake. A spare room. CarpeDM was in business…

2008. The first free walking tour. A coffee thermos, a few backpackers, and an Old Town route we figured out as we walked. Word spread fast.

2014. G Adventures, one of the world’s most respected small-group travel brands, named us their Preferred Daytour Supplier for Ecuador. That partnership still runs today. Every G Adventures traveler in Ecuador comes through us.

Along the way Lonely Planet started recommending us. TripAdvisor put us in their Hall of Fame. Kagumu Adventures made us their official Ecuador DMC for educational and sustainability-driven journeys.

Today. We’ve served over 35,000 travelers across day tours, the Amazon, and Galapagos. We’re an investor in two Cuyabeno lodges (Caiman and Piranha) so we can guarantee the Amazon experience end to end. We contribute to the Planeterra Fund for every G Adventures guest and support the Nunkui Project working with Indigenous Amazon communities.

Same city. Same philosophy. We just got better at it.

The Slow Flow Movement

Less rushing. More noticing.

Slow Travel with room for spontaneity. Time to listen to your guide. Room for the unplanned moment that becomes the story you tell at home. That’s Slow Flow, and it’s the language our travelers tend to use when they describe what their CarpeDM trip felt like afterward.

You don’t need more destinations.

You need experiences that stay with you. That’s what we build, one traveler at a time, since 2007.

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