Apprenticeship travel
You've been a tourist everywhere. Be an apprentice somewhere.
Another city. Another checklist. Another camera roll you'll never open again. If travel has started to feel like shopping, there's a different way to go somewhere. Stop visiting places. Shadow a master of a craft or profession. Step into their life. Because one life isn't enough.
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Four signs you're traveled out
You know the feeling before you have a word for it.
- 01You spend more time planning the trip than remembering it.
- 02Your photos look exactly like the brochure that sold you the place.
- 03You come home tired, not changed.
- 04You've seen a hundred places and belonged to none of them.
This isn't the end of travel for you. It's the end of watching it from the outside.
A different way to go somewhere
You don't experience culture by booking a tour. You experience culture when you step into it.
For a few days you take one person's profession as your own. A leather master in Tuscany. A glassblower in Venice. A coffee farmer in the highlands of Panama. You keep their hours. You shadow their day, and learn skills by doing, not by seeing a demonstration of it. You leave with a story that is truly yours.
Not a class. Not a tour. Like an apprenticeship, but for fun.
The apprenticeships
Unlimited opportunities to become an apprentice.
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We'll be in touch the moment the next apprenticeship opens. If you told us your dream apprenticeship, even better. We read every single one.
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A note from the founder
The day it began.
In 2015, in Panama City's Casco Antiguo, I walked up to Sr. Julio at his raspao cart and asked if I could work beside him for a day. He had built his cart from scratch. He read his customers like a seasoned observer of people, and switched between broken English, Portuguese and French depending on who walked up. By four in the afternoon I understood something I could not have learned any other way. Intentional curiosity can lead you to see a life from the inside. And you come away changed by it.
That was the beginning. Apprenti Trips is built for people who have always been curious about the lives they see from the outside, and are finally ready to understand one from within. You already know what it feels like to be a visitor. Come find out what it feels like to belong.
Anna Patricia, founder of Apprenti Trips