Travel With Kaede

Travel notes from the road — one reel at a time.

Get to know us

Two passports. One lens.

We’re Jamie and Kaede, a couple of New Zealanders filming our way around Asia and South America. The reels are the polished thirty seconds. This blog is everything that didn’t fit: where we actually stayed, what it cost, and what we’d skip next time.

Jamie is NZ-born Chinese; Kaede was born in Japan and moved to New Zealand at nine.

Slow travel, where we can. In our blogs you’ll find where we went, what we did, where we stayed, and what we recommend. Notes from the road, written down before we forget them.

Jamie
NZ-born Chinese
Kaede
Japan-born, NZ-raised
More about us
Portrait of Kaede in Oyón, Peru
— Videos

Watch my videos

REIWA Izakaya, Lima

Barra Ramen, Lima

Rioba 901, Lima

Viet by Vietnamita, Lima

FOTOGRAFÍA ÁVILA, Mérida

eSIM Card, Lima, Peru

Peruvian Japanese Cultural Centre, Lima

REIWA Izakaya, Lima

CoCo Bubble Tea, Salem Studio

Tama Shokudo, Salem Studio

Newsletter

新しい旅 — get the next one

A letter from each new country I land in — where I stayed, what it cost, what didn’t make the reel.

— Work with meCurrently available

Let’s make something worth posting about.

Brand collabs, creator content, and stories worth taking on the road. If the brief respects the trip more than the photo op, we’ll get on.

  • 01

    Brand partnerships

    Long-form features for destinations and brands that respect slow travel — written for SEO, scoped for trust.

  • 02

    UGC + Creator content

    Vertical short-form video licensed for your paid social channels. Filmed on the road, edited to your brief.

  • 03

    Ambassador + Affiliate

    Long-term partnerships with brands I actually use on the road. No one-and-done posts — only the real fit.