Female Solo Travelling

  




 Many, many women travel alone and they love it.However, solo female travel can be a bit of a cha   Solo Traveler specifically for women who want to travel alone. It's designed to point you to the most relevant information for female solo travelers.But first, let's talk about solo female travel. Here's what one of our readers and a solo travel newbie, Wendelyn, has to say

Inspiring Solo Female Travelers for Over a Decade

Solo Traveler was launched in 2009 to fill an online void. There was very little information for female solo travelers at that time. As someone who, after years of family travel found herself traveling solo once again, I was determined to offer a personal voice and solid advice to women wanting to travel solo.

Since then, the community of women traveling solo has grown. At one point, women found Solo Traveler by googling, "is it weird to travel alone". Now, that question just doesn't come up. It is common for women to travel solo. Yet, it is not easy for everyone to begin.Every week we receive emails from women taking their first solo trip. It is such a pleasure to receive them and learn how Solo Traveler has helped them on their journey. I hope this site, the many posts specifically for women and those for everyone, the Deals page, our newsletter and theWits and Wonder Travel  will be equally valuable for you.

Why Women Travel Solo

The Solo Travel Site on Facebook has over 230,000 fans and 63% of them are women. A Booking.com survey found that 65% of US women are taking vacations without their partner. This is consistent with my experience. I see women traveling solo far more often than men. In one case I was on a train in India and, randomly, there were four female solo travelers in one row. A Brit, a Canadian and two Americans.

We asked the female members of the Solo Travel Society why they travel solo:

- 46% said freedom, independence and the chance to do what they want when they want
- 22% said they weren't willing to wait around for others
- 15% said to challenge themselves and gain confidence. Solo Travel let's you go travel your way

You can hear the joy of solo travel in the voices of these travelers.

Top 10 Tips for Solo Female Travelers

We are sometimes asked to narrow down our top tips for women traveling solo. Taking some from how to travel solo as a women, others from our safety advise and still more from our lifestyle pieces for women, here they are.

  1. Choose your destination with Intent. You can travel better simply by understanding why you want to go where you want to go. Dig down. The initial inspiration may come from a book you read or a movie you watched, but surely there’s more to the story. Understand your intent, what’s drawing you to the destination, and you’ll have a more enriching travel experience. 
  2. Plan your first night well. At minimum, have a place to rest your head on the first night of every destination on your trip and plan to arrive by mid afternoon. It’s important to have the time to find your hotel or hostel in daylight and time to change your accommodation if you determine that this is not the place for you. 
  3. Visualize the necessities but no more. Traveling solo does require attention to details. Visualizing how the practical aspects of your trip fit together, from departure to transfers to accommodation, help you travel with less stress. But stop imagining what the trip will be like at that point. Be open to opportunities as they arise. It’s impossible to travel without any expectations of a destination, however, the less you are driven by specific expectations the freer you will be to travel in the moment.
  4. Pack light. You’re going to save money and be more mobile if you pack light. It requires a bit more planning to have a wardrobe that stretches from hiking boots to high heels but it can be done. Choose a base color (black, brown, beige, navy), a contrast color (white, beige…) and a color or two to accessorize and pull it all together. 
  5. Keep your accommodation to yourself. Your accommodation is your safe haven. Don’t tell people where you’re staying. If they ask, it’s easy to be vague.
  6. You do not have to eat alone. From cooking classes to day tours to themed dinners, there are so many ways to have company over dinner if that's what you want.
  7. Protect your documents, cards and cash. Keep your passport and other important documents secure. Have backup copies on you and at home with your trusted contact.Meet other women travelers. You can build friendships with women around the world. My favorite way is by staying at hostels
  8. Take a break from technology. Women lead busy lives. To really relax you may want to back off social media for a while.  A break from screens and technology, both of which can be incredibly addictive, will help you discover yourself more fully. 
  9. Stay local, buy local, meet locals. By planning well you will have a better understanding of how to be supportive of the local economy. Buy local crafts, eat local food, stay in locally-owned accommodation so that the profits don’t leave the country. And as you do all of this, connect with locals. This will give you much on which to reflect.


Your Specialist for Women who Travel Alone

To say experts may be a bit much but, as women, Tracey and I have a lot of experience traveling solo. We've been doing so for many years.

I went on my first solo trip in my twenties. I spent two weeks in Europe and, to tell you the truth, I was flying by the seat of my pants. I could have used some of the advice in the articles below. Since then I've enjoyed many years of solo travel. And, as a woman traveling alone, I've experienced the good and, on occasion, the bad. All of which has prepared me to write and publish Solo Traveler.

How'd we come to publish Solo Traveler? Well, for me, a love of travel, personal loss and an empty nest all conspired for me to travel solo more and begin Solo Traveler in 2009. As for Tracey, on her very first trip abroad, which was with a friend, she learned that solo travel was for her. As friends, it was natural for us to work together on Solo Traveler.


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