About
Shantitur
We are ShantiTur, a distinctive travel agency with a rich history of exploring the world and Southeast Asia since 1995. We love to travel and share that passion with more people.
In 2013, we began creating both group and custom trips with the purpose of immersing you in the experience of the places we visit as a true traveler.
We seek out less traveled destinations for a closer connection with nature and a more genuine encounter with local people, combining them with world-renowned landmarks. We choose accommodations that align with 4-star standards or higher, sometimes opting for boutique hotels or eco-resorts that offer a unique and comfortable experience.
ShantiTur promotes responsible tourism: respecting local customs, inspiring ecological awareness, and supporting local communities. Our goal is to leave a positive footprint and create life-lasting memories, sometimes even resulting in paradigm shifts.
Our team
Meet Our Team
Testimonials
Dan Szurman (USA)
Celebrating Love - 2024
This was an experience of a lifetime. The entire trip was well organized. Having an itinerary beforehand, without worrying about the planning and knowing where we were going and what we were going to do, made the trip very enjoyable. Every day was filled with amazing activities. There were options to do activities that I would have never done on my own. I got the chance to meet new people within the group and enjoy time with family in a way that would not have been possible without this trip. The sights of the trip were incredible. Every day was something new, and there was no dull moment. This was one of the best, if not the best, vacations of my life.
Gabriela Aurora Fernandez (Argentina)
Dream Trip - 2016
The trip with Shantitur is a truly enriching experience for several reasons: firstly, the proposal to approach coexistence as a daily learning opportunity that allows us to know ourselves through others. Additionally, feeling accompanied in such distant geographies.
Having the possibility to enjoy beautiful moments of solitude when one needs them. The most incredible thing about this trip is getting to know the places but also, and fundamentally, getting to know their people. Mitxisechanchi. Each of the experiences and people we met, thanks to the proposal Fernando makes, are a treasure that no other group trip I know of offers.
Intense from every angle. When I recall it (re-cordis from Latin, to pass through the heart again), I live it again.
Marta Morandini (Argentina)
Magic Indonesia - 2018
I had wanted to visit Indonesia for a long time but was hesitant to go alone. When I found ShantiTur’s beautiful videos, I got very excited. I thought it was great to join a group, but I felt that it was very young people and, being older, I would feel uncomfortable both physically and emotionally… but I was very wrong. The ages were varied, and the physical part was not strenuous. Everything was at a good, careful pace and really very fun, so much so that I think next year I will sign up for the Dream Trip.The name ShantiTur gave it is perfect: “Magical Indonesia” because it truly is. We went to beautiful places. For me, it was a transformative cultural encounter. The landscape, the local people so nice, the group too, with very special people. Fernando is a very good guide who chose special places. Everything was very harmonious. This trip really did a lot of good for my soul. Thank you! Thanks to Fernando and ShantiTur.
Ricardo Muñoz y Graciela Iglesias (Argentina)
Dream Trip - 2014
We have seen and experienced so much in just three weeks… Impressive! So much effort, dedication, and love put into the organization of the trip, into the details, etc., and for that reason, the trip has been something totally different and intense that takes time to assimilate. Something that impressed me and seemed very special and different was the close contact we had with the ethnic groups, which left me with unique and unforgettable sensations. It seems to me that the transformations that such trips entail occur with these magical moments and those experiences where one learns to be more sensitive, more human, and to travel on a deeper level.Thank you, Shantitur, for an unforgettable and profound trip that touched my very heart!
Daniela Ripiani (Argentina)
Dream Trip - 2016
An unforgettable journey of body and soul, wonderful and transformative. A different proposal that invites you to delight the senses with aromas of spices, intense flavors, paradisiacal postcards, and to awaken the heart by getting to know other cultures, travel companions, and oneself. Throughout the experience, you feel the love with which this trip is organized, taking care of every detail and each traveler.Eternally grateful, I would go back a thousand times!!!
Laura Cremades (Argentina)
Dream Trip - 2015
This trip was a blessing. Because I traveled through beautiful, surprising, mystical, and unforgettable places. But it was also wonderful because it was a shared adventure. And shared magically, precisely, with the people I needed to meet. Each and every one of them. There was a saying that illuminated this trip from the beginning: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with companions.” And so it was.
Margarita Valles (Argentina)
Orange Route - 2018
What can I say about this trip called “ORANGE ROUTE” that we did with ShantiTur along with the most incredible person I have ever met in my life (our guide Fernando), I was lucky enough to see incredible places!!! Wonderful people!!! With their customs and culture so different from ours!!! I couldn’t have asked for more, and besides, I fulfilled three dreams that I had pending on that unforgettable trip: participating in the morning offerings to the monks in Laos, taking a balloon ride, and visiting the White Temple in Chiang Rai (it was not included in the trip, but I was able to visit it anyway).
Beatriz Arlandis (Argentina)
The Dream Trip - 2016
I am amazed by the choice of people and places. A truly profound, pleasant, adventurous, almost initiatic journey. Getting to know Hanoi and Ha-Long in particular was revelatory. I felt deeply connected to its inhabitants, its streets, its smell. Climbing the hills around Sapa and seeing its inhabitants weaving, its children with their beautiful happy faces. Observing their humility. And in the visit to the War Museum in Hanoi, the emotion of our guide, that gentleman with his honor, his just words made me rethink so many points of view not only regarding wars but also the Homeland, the Nation, humility, and patience. Listening to him talk about the conduct of the Vietnamese people, the respect towards their leaders, the passion for life, the resilience that it teaches. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Carmen Figueroa Helgueta
Magic Indonesia - 2018
This is the third time I have traveled with SHANTITUR to Southeast Asia.
This time the destination was INDONESIA, which is a magical country, its people, its food, its landscapes, are an invitation to connect with nature and the spirit it holds.
The truth is that this trip was really transformative for me, the opportunities to connect with nature and with ourselves that we had at all times were wonderful.
It truly was a journey of encounter and integration, of meeting my physical and spiritual “self,” and integrating with the other “selves” who accompanied me on the journey and will remain forever in my heart.I still have a couple more routes to experience with ShantiTur, and I am sure I will take them soon…Thank you, Fernando and ShantiTur, for these experiences.
Mireya Jiménez Florín (Chile)
Magic Indonesia - 2018
In summary, this trip is about connection, learning, happiness, encounters, and deep emotions. It truly exceeded all expectations. Beautiful landscapes, warm and cheerful people. A life experience that everyone should give themselves. A wonderful guide who becomes your brother on the journey and anchors in your heart forever! A magical feast for the senses and the soul. In short, FULL HAPPINESS!!!
José Gabriel Dalessandro (Argentina)
Dream Trip - 2014
I love to surrender to life and experiences. For me, it was very nice, and I felt supported in doing so on a trip with Fernando’s proposal (Shantitur) which he does as a life mission.
The itinerary seemed very balanced to me. A wonderful experience in which we connected with what is lived in that part of the planet where culture and customs are so different from ours.
Caroline Casseli (Paraguay)
Dream Trip - 2017
It is as the proposal says: “The Dream Trip”. Impossible to return as the same person.
I learned to love perfect strangers, to protect them like family, to want to be a better person. To live in the present.
I would return to all the places.
