Travel with Kaede: honest travel guides for Asia and Latin America
Travel notes from the road.
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
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A letter from each new country I land in — where I stayed, what it cost, what didn’t make the reel.
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.
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Brand partnerships
Long-form features for destinations and brands that respect slow travel — written for SEO, scoped for trust.
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UGC + Creator content
Vertical short-form video licensed for your paid social channels. Filmed on the road, edited to your brief.
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Ambassador + Affiliate
Long-term partnerships with brands I actually use on the road. No one-and-done posts — only the real fit.
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