our story

The AdAstra story began when founder, Katriona Shrives realised that life should be filled with adventure. She quit her job in Mobile Tech, and jumped on the next flight to Colombia where she spent nine months discovering hidden gems and meeting the incredible locals. While there, she started to wonder how she could keep on adventuring.

One of Kat’s greatest passions is to bring people together and share experiences and adventures with them. As she started to do this more and more in the incredible places she had found in Colombia, she wondered if it could be done on a larger scale.

Drawing on more than a decade of traveling experience and knowledge, Kat creates adventures to far flung locations, and takes you to places that are truly unique, and off-the-beaten-track. She always aims to work with local families and businesses who really understand the country, and to create memorable adventures that push you to the limit and challenge your comfort zone in all the best ways.

Although she loves an adventure, she also appreciates a little luxury in life. On many of the trips you’ll get special touches, like a private chef, or a masseuse to rub those muscles at the end of a long day, so that you can fully enjoy the adventure!

Most recently she has been setting up adventures closer to home in Wales. These are great mini adventures that combine our passion for hiking and stand up paddle boarding and of course tasty food. 

She is passionate about getting more people adventuring and experiencing the true wonders this world has to offer. Now with 6 years running AdAstra she is delighted to have a group of clients who return year after year to discover new corners of the world.

We have other routes that are less well known such as the lost city trek of Colombia. We also have others that can be organised for private groups that are not on the website so do get in touch if you’d like a little more inspiration.