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I thinking of travelling on my own, and considering options for a trip in 2016. I have heard some good things about Today's Woman Traveller , does anyone have experience using this tour group?

I travelled my first time with them in 2015 to Vietnam and Cambodia. I went on my own not knowing anyone else on the trip. Several of the ladies had travelled with Today's Woman Traveller on previous trips, forming friendships that carried over into new destinations. Their enthusiasm and positive comments set the stage for this amazing journey. We were fourteen ladies on this inaugural trip. We quickly became friends and continue to stay in touch and meet up from time to time. I will be doing the next two trips with women I met on this trip. Every part of this trip was memorable and unique: from sailing Halong Bay, supporting our guide's clean water project in Cambodia, to Miss Vy's cooking school in Hue. There was flexibility in the tour, time to chill, time to tour - I loved every single minute and can't wait to pack my bags for the next adventure. I would highly recommend Today's Woman Traveller to any woman considering setting off on her own or with others to explore the world. Anjie

I would be very circumspect about trusting a reply to a specific named company where the poster had joined just today to say how wonderful and unique it was.

Also that it was perfect, no rough spots, queries at all. And no detail.

I had a look for this companies reviews but could find no independent ones.

I tried to look at the premises on Google Street View but couldn't find it. It was however an average surburban/rural area with some industrial units.

Debbie Lloyd - Canadian Woman Traveller, Kingston Ontario http://www.cwtraveller.ca/about-us/2-debbie-lloyd Owner and Founder - The Travel Broker & Cruise Centre, Canadian Woman Traveller. Seems to be the same woman same place different title.

So we have 3 companies headed by the the same lady in the same rural premises. I just feel confused by the number of different business from the same small building and none BBB acredited. It could be fine, think if it was me I'd check the T&C's throughly. Many larger companies run into cancelation due to lack of applicants or travelling alone because the holiday hasn't been booked by anyone else.

I've travelled with companies and on my own, happily either way but I do choose large, well established ones for my own peace of mind

Excellent investigative work, Suebovington.

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Ann B, TripAdvisor is just one area to get reviews. I would also recommend you ask them for one or two references from Ottawa region and either speak to the reference by phone, or better yet, ask them out for a coffee. This allows you to ask more specific questions about how well the company and tours are run.

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Linda, I have just looked at the pricing. That’s a hell of a lot of money for a package which doesn’t include your international air travel. I am pretty sure you could do something similar for a lot less money by arranging it yourself. Of course, the bonus of going on this tour is that you’d have travel buddies. Your call on what’s more important.

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I thinking of travelling on my own, and considering options for a trip in 2016. I have heard some good things about Today's Woman Traveller , does anyone have experience using this tour group?

I would be very circumspect about trusting a reply to a specific named company where the poster had joined just today to say how wonderful and unique it was.

Also that it was perfect, no rough spots, queries at all. And no detail.

I had a look for this companies reviews but could find no independent ones.

I tried to look at the premises on Google Street View but couldn't find it. It was however an average surburban/rural area with some industrial units.

I've travelled with companies and on my own, happily either way but I do choose large, well established ones for my own peace of mind

Excellent investigative work, Suebovington.

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10 Adventure Travel Groups for Women

Ranging from hardcore outdoor adventures to luxe glamping-style getaways, these trips have a no-guys-allowed policy.

Lila Harron Battis is a freelance writer and editor. She was previously a senior editor at Travel + Leisure .

Girls just want to have fun — in the wilderness, that is. That's the idea behind these travel groups for women and nonbinary adventurers. Whether you're a thrill seeker keen to kayak some rapids or a wellness enthusiast more interested in practicing your yoga poses in the serene outdoors, there's a female-focused trip or retreat for you.

With the guidance of these adventure tour operators, you can learn a new skill, conquer a physical challenge, explore new surroundings, and meet some amazing people along the way. So buckle your helmet for a days-long cycling trip or strap into your harness to take on a scenic climbing route with a supportive group.

Adventures in Good Company

This tour company specializes in small-group expeditions in more than 100 destinations on every continent except Antarctica. Adventures include climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, camping on the Sea of Cortez, and kayaking in Greenland. Trips are categorized by activity level, on a scale of one to five, ranging from gentle activities for beginners to itineraries for the very fit. Adventures in Good Company welcomes all women — including trans women — and nonbinary people "who identify with the women’s community."

AdventureWomen

Operating since 1982, this trusted female-focused group leads hikes through the Himalayan Mountains, transports travelers to the Galápagos Islands by private yacht, and facilitates multisport adventures in the Canadian Rockies, among some 60 other options. You might opt to go alone and meet new friends or treat your mom to one of its mother-daughter trips . Tours range from moderate to active, high-energy, and challenging.

Balanced Rock

Balanced Rock hosts groups of women in Yosemite National Park. These trips lean less toward the adventurous and more toward the spiritual, "inspir[ing] healing and wellness through yoga, hiking, Ayurveda, creative expression, and community." The nonprofit runs a variety of programs throughout the year, including annual Women of Color retreats. Trips are for "any individual who self-identifies as trans, woman, nonbinary, intersex, two-spirit, and/or genderqueer."

Damesly trips — ranging from Cuba to Bhutan, Uzbekistan, the Grand Canyon, and beyond — cater to "creative and professional women" between 30 and 65, though any woman 21 or older can join. Offerings include high-energy adventures and self-discovery workshops alike. The groups are kept small (12 maximum), making for an intimate experience. And you can bet this women-owned business supports as many females as possible along the way.

Explorer Chick

Explorer Chick 's trips include hiking, snorkeling, kayaking, rafting, rock climbing, and sometimes even whiskey tours, glamping, or survival workshops. Destinations range from Uganda to Patagonia to Croatia, among many others. Women of all ages are welcome as long as they're physically capable of the itinerary. The only demographics this group discriminates against are "mean girls" and "Debbie Downers."

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Fit & Fly

Instructor-led daily workouts anchor Fit & Fly retreats to sunshiny locales like Bali, Morocco, and Mexico City (also Iceland — not so sunshiny). Fitness opportunities might include a surf lesson, a glacier hike, or yoga in the desert. Accommodations are high-end and comfortable — ideal for post-workout recovery — and time outside of "class" often involves good food and spa treatments.

REI Women's Adventures

The outdoor retailer REI invites any traveler who identifies as a woman on adventures in U.S. national parks and beyond. Choose between backpacking in Joshua Tree, kayaking in the San Juan Islands, camping in Bryce Canyon, section hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, and more. You won't need a passport for any of them. Activity levels for said trips range from two ("easy active") to five ("strenuous"). One major selling point of an REI Women's Adventure ? Members get a discounted price.

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WHOA Travel

The concept of WHOA is apparent in the name: "Women High On Adventure." These itineraries are for women who want to climb mountains. This is your chance to hike to great heights in Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand, to ice climb a volcano in Iceland, or to scale a trio of peaks in Ecuador. Tours are also offered in Patagonia, Antarctica, Peru, and more. Some trips, billed as WHOA Plus, are just for "curvy" or plus-sized women.

Wild Women Expeditions

This Canada-based tour operator welcomes wild women "of all ages, sexual orientations, and identities" on trips in every corner of the world. Adventures might include taking a dinghy to see Greenland's glaciers up close, horseback riding in Mongolia, or sailing the Nile River in Egypt. Wild Women Expeditions has hosted girls and women from eight to 86 in more than 30 countries and on every continent.

Intrepid Travel Women's Expeditions

Intrepid Travel is the biggest adventure travel company — and one of the most eco-conscious, earning the reputable B Corporation certification for its social and environmental efforts. It isn't totally women-focused, but it does host a number of women-only adventures to Jordan, Pakistan, India, Morocco, and beyond. These trips are specifically designed to create immersive, hands-on experiences such as traditional weaving in Morocco's Amejgag village and cooking with Tibetan refugees in Nepal. On these expeditions, visitors get the chance to support female employment opportunities and women-owned businesses.

27 Awesome Women Travel Groups who organize Women Only Tours

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Women only tours and specialty tours for women are a thing of the future.

Luckily, the future obviously already arrived.

Whether you’re a single woman, you just need to get away from someone for a little while or you’re a lesbian couple.

All women are welcome in these women travel groups.

I guess the concept doesn’t require much explaining! And there’s also no need to explain the reason for the existence of the concept. I don’t even need to tell you why this concept is getting more popular than ever.

Meanwhile, women only tour agencies keep popping up everywhere. Even though the concept is not new at all!

In fact, it has been around for decades. We just feel that is hasn’t gotten enough attention just yet.

That’s why we dedicated a post to highlight all of these agencies that celebrate women and offers them a getaway surrounded by other women!

Rei Women’s Trips - Adventure trips for women only

The REI Women’s trips are all extraordinary adventures to tons of different destinations all over the world. These women’s special tours are guided by women and designed for all-female travel groups. When booking one of these trips, you’ll get some adventure, culture, great food, and perhaps a few interesting surprises. On top of that, you’ll meet other adventurous women from all over the world.

The women travel groups include adventures like the Lares Trek to Machu Picchu , kayaking trips , hiking trips , camping trips , and even a safari in South Africa . One thing is certain: you will end up having a great bunch of new friends after joining one of these women travel groups.

Purposeful Nomad

Purposeful Nomad offers women’s only travel groups with a purpose. They encourage ethical travel and they support local operations. Their concept stands for meaningful travel while contributing to local culture. With Purposeful Nomad, you can travel to destinations like Ecuador, Guatemala, Cuba, India, and other destinations with a rich culture. During a Purposeful Nomad trip, you’ll be able to experience local life and culture by getting up really close to the local communities.

This US-based travel agency is completely operated by women and they specialise in responsible travel for women travel groups. They offer trip to a handful carefully selected destinations and the tours sell out quickly. If you want to join one of these unique tours, you better be quick!

Read this Purposeful Nomad review by The Globetrotting Teacher

Girls’ Guide to Paris & Beyond - Women’s Only Luxury Tours

Girls’ Guide to Paris & Beyond Women’s Only Luxury Tour company reach far far beyond Paris. While they began with tours of France they have since expanded to Morocco, Italy, Bali, Japan, Germany and Switzerland with still a huge selection of trips heading to France. Their groups are small, typically 6-12 with all meals and wine included. Founder, Doni Belau says:

“ I come alive when I travel, do you? I love to help other women experience the sensation of wonder because it helps us see a larger world of possibilities within our own lives. Girls’ Guide to Paris & Beyond is an invitation travel luxuriously in a small group with like-minded women (no more than 12) and explore another part of the world in style while we explore another part of ourselves. Our tours are all-inclusive down to the glasses of champagne, wine, sake or beer included with your meals & we never charge a single supplement. ”

Origin Travels - Adventure and culture for womxn

Origin Travels is an ethical travel agency for women where you can book super cool and adventurous tours to some of the coolest bucket list destinations in the world.

Their tours take you to places like Guatemala, Peru, India, Morocco, Costa Rica, and into the wilderness, accompanied by experienced local guides. Expect to be introduced into the local life and to learn a lot about the culture.

The interesting thing about Origin Travels is that they strive to empower women, travelers, as well as local women. They have an open attitude towards straight women, lesbian women, and every person who identifies as a woman, which totally resonates with our blog ethics!

Trips consist of small groups of women and have a perfect balance between adventure and freedom to explore on your own.

And we have some great news! We can offer you a 40$ discount on your next trip with Origin Travels by using the discount code: ONLYONCETODAY . So what are you actually waiting for? 😉

Sight and Soul Tours for women

This US based travel agency organises luxury tours and vacations for women only. With Sight and Soul , you can travel to nearly anywhere in the world and join a tour group that consists only of women. This tour agency doesn’t cater specifically for lesbian travelers, but lesbians are obviously welcome! With Sight and Soul, you can book tours with women travel groups to the most splendid destinations all over the world. They offer tours to New Zealand, South Africa, Europe, South America, … Anything you can think of!

Sight and Soul is a US based women only tour company. They only offer ‘female only travel groups’ and the entire agency is female operated. This company has been around for over a decade and they gained a lot of exposure over the years. Tours sell out pretty quickly, so if you want to join one of their tours, act quickly!

People from all over the world are welcome to join the Sight and Soul Tours!

Adventure Women - Active women only tours

Adventure Women offers adventure trips and packages for women all over the world. Trips vary in length between one and three weeks. They have in common that there will be only women in your group and you will have loads of fun! Aside from multiple destinations within the US, you can also travel to interesting destinations around the world, like Galapagos, New Zealand, Africa, Asia, …They offer different packages like hiking, rafting, island hopping in the Mediterranean, and even a Trans-Siberian Adventure.

Adventure women has been around for over 30 years and they are completely operated by women. The company is US based and they’re specialised in women travel groups.

Wander Tours - Women Travel Groups

The brainchild of Wanderlust and Lipstick travel site Beth Whitman is called Wander Tours . This women only travel agency offers holiday solutions with all women travel groups to destinations like Papua New Guinea, Bhutan, Europe, South America, Africa, … and so many more interesting destinations.

Wander Tours is US based and female operated. Each year, a carefully selected set of destinations is added to the website and these tours sell out quickly. The women travel groups are small in order to improve the experience of the traveler and minimise the impact on the environment.

Olivia Travel

Olivia Travel is mainly a cruise travel agency for lesbian women. With Olivia, you can book a variety of cruises, river cruises and adventurous trips. Therefore, Olivia is the largest lesbian travel agency. Book a cruise through the Caribbean or the Mediterranean Sea. Check out various riverboat cruises in Europe or get your adrenalin pumping during an African Safari.

This tour agency is based in the United States and completely operated by women and for women.

Walking Women

Walking Women is a travel agency that organises walking and hiking holidays for female travel groups. They also offer travel group excursions for lesbian women. Their holiday destination include a lot of destinations in the UK, but they also offer walking holidays to destinations in Europe. Intensity grades and difficulty of the tours is clearly displayed and you can book a tour according to your physical shape.

Walking Women is a travel agency based in the United Kingdom. The owner and guides are all female.

Women from all over the world can book tours with Walking Women and chances are good you’ll meet women from all ages and locations during these tours.

The Women’s Travel Group - Women only luxury travel

All tours organised by the Women’s Travel Group are small group tours with limited spaces. The concept is a little different from the other women only travel groups. They’re in fact designed to give you a different experience. Furthermore, they offer women’s special tours to destinations like Mexico, Italy, South Africa, Madagascar, India, and many more destinations.

The Women’s Travel Group is an all female enterprise that organises luxury tours for women. This US-based company is founded by Phyllis Stoller, who started the female tours 27 years ago. Apparently, customers book tours year after year and they keep coming back for the fabulous formula with excellent hotels and fine dining.

The women’s Travel Group welcomes travelers from all over the world to join their tours.

Women’s Travel Club

This small group tours company for women offers tours for women travel groups to destinations all over the world. With Women’s Travel Club, you can book trips to destinations on each continent, ranging from relaxed holiday experiences to active adventures.

Women’s Travel Club is also a US based travel agency that is operated by women, specialising in custom travel formulas for women. All the fellow travelers in your group will be like minded women looking for a fun vacation.

The Women’s Travel Club invites women from all over the world to join their women tour groups.

Adventures in good company

Adventures in Good Company also offers adventurous trips for female travelers. All of the offered tours are an adventure in their own way. Some involve white water rafting or kayaking, while others are hiking trips or horseback riding trips. The trip information informs you about the level of fitness you need in order to make your trip successful. Guides , as well as guests are all women. With Adventures in Good Company, you can book trips to any continent and there’s tons of choice for destinations in the US and its National parks.

This company is based in the United States and is operated for women by women.

Women from all over the world can book tours with Adventures in Good Company.

Explorer Chick

The Explorer Chick women’s special tours are adventurous and exciting. All of the trips involve nature, outdoors and loads of beautiful scenery. Even though most tours take place in the United States, they also offer quite a few adventures outside the US. With Explorer Chick, you can expect women only travel groups, women only guides, and ambassadors leading the way. Destinations include tons of trips in the US, Canada, Patagonia, Norway, Peru, and more.

Explorer Chick is an all female travel agency, based in the US. The company is completely made by women and they keep the women travel groups in mind when designing their adventures.

Women from all over the world can book a tour with Explorer Chicks!

Wild Women Expeditions

Wild Women Expeditions is an adventure travel agency for women. During these expeditions, you’ll get in close contact with nature and end up have quite a few new friends. The Wild Women Expeditions are designed for female travelers.

They’re US based and they’ve been around for nearly 3 decades! Sustainable travel and creating a community of amazing women are 2 important goals for the company. They are all female operated and they want to empower women as much as possible.

Damesly is a boutique women only tour agency. They offer a select number of tours that are tailored for women. Since there aren’t dozens of tours, they sell out even quicker. SO if you want to reserve a spot on one of the women travel groups, be quick!

Operated completely by women entrepreneurs, Damesly strives to create a community of traveling women. The company is US based, but they offer tours to destinations all over the world.

Women High on Adventure

WHOA Travel or Women High on Adventure is a cool female operated travel agency. With destinations like Mount Kilimanjaro, Everest Base Camp, and Machu Picchu, adventure is guaranteed. WHOA Travel tries to get you out of your comfort zone into the next one! Joining an adventure with WHOA will most likely be a life changing experience.

Women High on Adventure is a United States based company. The entire company is running on female power only.

WHOA welcomes travelers from all over the globe, so chances are good you’ll end up meeting new friends from various places in the world!

As an Adventure travel tour agency, Living Big caters experiences for women who want to travel, but not alone. With their travel groups for women, they provide experiences to female travelers and bring them together at the same time. Destinations include wonderful experiences on all continents. Living Big organises hosted experiences that your can join as an individual, but you can also have a custom private trip designed for a group of friends.

Living Big is a US based company, operated completely by women and for women!

Women from all over the world can book a spot on the Living Big adventures!

Goddess Retreats

Goddess Retreats , as the name already implies, offers retreats for women only. These retreats can be yoga retreats for women, surf retreats, fitness, spa retreats., snow retreats, … anything you can imagine! These holiday packages are designed by women, for women. After joining a Goddess Retreat, you will feel like a new person and have lots of new friends. All retreats are organised in Bali, with the snow retreat being located in Japan.

Goddess Retreats is based in Australia and this travel agency is powered completely by women.

Woman Tours

Women tours is a bike tour company for women only. With Women Tours, you can book a cycling holiday in 3 different fitness categories: leisure, moderate, and advanced. For most tours, it’s possible to get an eBike to make things a little easier for yourself. Bike tours with Women Tours are available for women of all ages and abilities. Destinations include places in the United States, Europe, South Africa, and Tanzania. Some of the tours cover great distances during a trip. You can rest assured that you’ll get an amazing experience with stunning views and great company!

The Women Tours travel agency has been operational for over 20 years. The company is based in the United States and completely powered by women.

Women from anywhere in the world can book a women only tour with this travel agency!

Fit and Fly Girl

The Fit and Fly Girl travel agency offers retreats for women. These retreats mainly focus on wellness, fitness, and culture. Destinations include Costa Rica, Palm Springs, Mykonos, Ibiza, and Morocco. When booking a women only retreat with Fit and Fly Girl, you get stylish accommodations, great and healthy food, fitness and wellness arrangements, entertainment, and much more. A fantastic holiday package!

Fit and Fly Girl is a US based travel agency for women, completely powered by women.

The Fit and Fly Girl retreats can be booked from all over the world.

Wander Woman - Women Only Specialty Tours

Wander Woman is a travel agency that has been around since 1998, so they know exactly how to handle things for you! These women only tours are designed for adventurous women who want to visit some of the most beautiful destinations in the world. They work with small groups only. Trip types vary from relaxed island hopping trips in the Mediterranean to archeology tours and custom tours.

Wander Woman is a part of the Eurynome Journey travel agency. With this women only tour agency, you can travel to Europe, the US, Asia, and other destinations!

Wander Women welcomes female travelers from all over the world!

Travels Together - Unique adventures for women

This female-operated travel agency opened its business in 2008, but has tons of travel experience before that. Travels Together offers unique trips and off-the-beaten-path experiences for women.

Destinations like Cuba, Montenegro, Galapagos, or Spain are all possible with Travels Together. But it’s also possible to inquire custom tailored trips with the organisation.

Intrepid Women’s Expeditions - Explore local culture

Intrepid currently offers a formula called Women’s Expeditions . These travel tours are for female travelers only. These all-female adventures are especially catered for women and they provide special insights into the life of the women in different cultures.

With the Intrepid women only tours, you can travel to Morocco , Iran , Jordan . These destinations have been carefully chosen in order to offer traveling women an insight in the life of local women. This type of travel to these destinations would not be possible with mixed travel groups.

We sure hope that Intrepid will add tons of different women only travel groups to other destinations as well.

Canyon Calling - Adventures for women

Canyon Calling is a travel agency that organises adventurous women only tours. With this tour agency, you can travel to destinations all over the world with an all-female group. Even though many trips are located in the United States, they also offer a variety of destinations in Europe, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

Canyon Calling is a US based travel agency that caters adventure trips for women only. The company has been around for more than 20 years.

Women from all over the world are welcome to join the Canyon Calling tour groups!

Wildland Trekking

Wildland Trekking is a travel agency specialised in hiking and trekking. They offer women’s hiking trips where only women are present. Guides are female, hikers are female too! These women’s special tours are only a part of the specialty trips Wildland Trekking offers. They also have an option to book family hiking tours and private hiking tours.

Wildland Trekking is a US based company that offers hiking tours in the US. Aside from women’s hiking trips, they also offer family hiking experiences.

Guests on the Wildland Trekking tours are international and people from all over the world are welcome to join the tours.

Byond Travel

Byond is a travel agency, based in Bangalore, that organises multiple types of trips. They offer biking trips, health and wellness trips, and women only trips. They cater these trips for women only because of the growing demand and the growing number of solo female travelers.

Because the Indian location of the travel agency, most of their customers are Indian as well. But don’t let that stop you to book a trip with them. They actually get tons of positive reviews and they have loads of tours to offer for women only. This agency offers some of the top women’s travel groups and tours in India .

Frequently asked questions about women only tours

What about singles supplements for single travelers.

All the tour agencies we mentioned before, have this amazing thing in common! They want you to avoid paying a singles supplement as a single traveler.

Single travelers can either choose to pay a single supplement for a single room, but solo travelers are encouraged to share a room with a fellow traveler without paying a singles supplement.

I’m not from the US. Can I join these tours?

Yes! Most of the above mentioned travel agencies welcome international travelers. Even though we couldn’t find too many travel agencies with women only tours in Europe or for that manner, outside of the USA, you can still join the tours.

We contacted all of these agencies to ask them if international travelers are welcome. All of the agencies that replied to us, have answered positive to that question. So don’t let borders hold you back and just choose one of the amazing and adventurous tours and send them an inquiry!

Are these lesbian Travel Groups?

The Women Only travel groups mentioned in this article are not specific lesbian tours. Although many of these tour groups are frequently booked by single lesbian women or lesbian couples, they are not designed for lesbian women. However, you should not let this hold you back from booking one of these tours.

All the above mentioned tours welcome all women, without judging people for any reason. Women of all ages, race, sexual orientation, and fitness level are welcome to join the women only tours.

How do I find lesbian tours?

Check out this article with the best lesbian tours agencies and lesbian cruises !

How should I plan my trip?

After booking one of these amazing women only trips, it’s about time to start planning!

Take out your gear, find the best type of luggage , and see if you didn’t forget any essential items you can find in this backpacking packing list .

Then follow these easy steps to plan your trip . We also have a few travel resources to help you on your way.

And, as always, don’t forget to take your travel card with you, in order to pay less commission on foreign currencies!

You might be doing interesting activities, so it’s a good idea to get some good travel insurance !

You’ll probably spend some time relaxing or in transit. For those hours, take a few great travel books with you!

Women travel groups - Conclusion

There is obviously a need for tour arrangements for women only. During our research for this post, we noticed that all of these travel agencies sell out their tours amazingly quick! The concept is not only immensely popular, but it just works!

Another positive lesson we learned during our research is that these travel agencies not only organise women only tours. They also work towards the empowerment of women in the world. The travel world is a very male saturated market and women often have a difficult time finding their way and making it to the top.

For that reason, it’s very important that we have more and more women breaking through in this market. They strive to empower women worldwide. And they also provide valuable jobs for female guides, porters and hospital workers all over the world!

In this article, we gathered loads of tour agencies that focus on women only tours. We managed to find 26 awesome women travel groups and tour agencies. And we really hope you enjoyed this list!

Do you own a travel agency that focuses on women only tours? Let us know in the comments or send us a message so we can check out your website and tours!

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Why older women are increasingly choosing to travel solo

The popular tour company Road Scholar , which has been recognized as one of the best companies for senior tours , recently released a report based on the responses of 600 senior women solo travelers. Why? Because women traveling on their own – especially as part of a tour group – is on the rise. According to the report, up to 30% of the company's tour participants are solo travelers; and of those solo travelers, 85% are women.

While women tend to outlive male partners by six years, the story of why solo travel among women is on the rise is a lot more complicated (and interesting) than the life expectancy gap. Of the 600 solo women travelers surveyed, 60% of Road Scholar’s solo travelers in 2022 were married, and only 6% said they traveled solo because they didn’t have anyone else in their life to travel with.

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So, why are more and more partnered senior women traveling solo? Many said their spouse wasn’t interested in traveling or didn’t want to go to the same destinations. Some said their partners weren’t physically able to travel. “Don’t let a silly thing like marriage get in the way of your passion to learn about the world,” said tour participant Barbara W.

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For some, solo travel is either a necessity or a preference, but many of the women surveyed went deeper to explain the reasons they actually love solo travel: 26% said they traveled solo because it was easier to make new friends when traveling alone.

Independence was a big factor, too:

22% said they enjoy the autonomy
15% said they liked being able to choose their destination
6% said they appreciated not needing to coordinate with someone else’s schedule

Since guided tours provide structure, access, and a built-in community, it makes sense that as we continue to see a rise in senior women traveling solo, multi-day guided tours would be a great fit.

As someone who travels both as a solo traveler and is also always on the lookout for family vacation ideas with my kids and spouse, I find this rise in solo travel, especially among women, thrilling. I think of the older women in my life and want this for them: the chance to continue their adventures and to choose the places they want to go.

While not true for every woman, there’s a tendency for women to do a lot of accommodating in their younger years – making sure partners and children and work all take priority. Solo travel for senior women feels like a wonderful counterbalance, a way of reclaiming one’s interests, autonomy, and sense of adventure.

Why older women are increasingly choosing to travel solo originally appeared on TourScoop.com .

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Angelina Jolie

During her first trip as Special Envoy for the UN, on a layover in Paris en route to Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire, the Hollywood actress noted in her diary that ‘an African man wearing a nice blue suit and a warm smile asked me if I was a journalist. I said, “No, just an American who wants to learn more about Africa .”' That was the Jolie before her dozens of field missions, meeting refugees from Kabul and Darfur as well as the Syria-Iraq border. In Notes from My Travels , she writes: ‘I feel I was not raised to seriously think outside my own country’ and describes her epiphany through exchanges with women in camps, kids begging and market vendors. ‘It will take me a while to recover from this trip and, of course, I hope I never do,’ she remarks on leaving Pakistan. While her column inches may focus on her films, her ex-husbands and her children adopted from all over the world (she has a tattoo on her shoulder of the coordinates of each child’s birthplace), Jolie’s UN work has taken her to more than 40 countries, and she is known to cover all her costs on missions. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said of her work for refugees: ‘I have seen how much they inspire her as she listens to them for hours on end. She has spent many days and nights in camps or at border crossings. I speak on behalf of the world’s refugees to say how grateful we are for her incredible dedication.’

Marie Colvin

With her signature pirate’s patch (she’d lost her eye in a grenade blast in Sri Lanka ), this frontline correspondent defied death numerous times – until she didn’t. In 2012, Colvin was killed in an airstrike while covering the siege of Homs in Syria. Tragically, Marie herself used to say, ‘No story is worth dying for, because there’s no story then'. The American journalist, who reported mostly for The Sunday Times , was known for her swearing, her smoking, her drinking, her PTSD, the La Perla bra she wore under her flak jacket, and her strong belief in the need to bear witness to the atrocities of war from Iraq to Afghanistan, East Timor to Kosovo and Chechnya to Libya. Her writing was spare, incisive, even painful to read. ‘In Basra, they say the day belongs to Iraq; the night to Iran. Iraq’s second city is under siege, and Iranian shells slammed into houses for the 70th successive day yesterday,’ she typed in 1987. Colvin didn’t deny the indecision she sometimes felt; sentiments such as ‘What am I doing?’ in emails to friends were quickly followed by ‘Story incredibly important, though’. ‘Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid,’ she once said. In the foreword to On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin , her sister wrote that she hopes ‘Marie will continue to inspire young women everywhere, as they dream of the difference just one girl can make in the world’.

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah

‘I am an Arab through and through,’ says the queen consort of Jordan, ‘but I am also one who speaks the international language.’ Palestinian by nationality, Rania was born in Kuwait, spent her summers visiting relatives in the West Bank, spoke Arabic at home and English at school. She says she carried hummous sandwiches in her packed lunch, while a classmate brought peanut butter and jam; she imagined theirs would be ‘disgusting’, but when she tried it, she thought it was ‘heavenly’ (a story she wrote down and turned into a children’s’ book, The Sandwich Swap ). It was a small step towards fuelling a desire for east-west exchange and cross-border adventures. She went off to study at the American University in Cairo and was there when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Her family fled to Jordan , she joined them, there hobnobbed with royalty and ended up marrying the future king. In 1999, at the age of 28, she became the youngest queen in the world when her husband took the throne and became King Abdullah II. She has redefined the modern monarch during her world tours of duty — while connecting with nearly five million Instagram and 10.4 million Twitter followers (where her profile reads: ‘a mum and a wife with a really cool day job’). Her charity, the Jordan River Foundation helps rural women find a way to sell their traditional crafts: Queen Rania likes to quote the African proverb: ‘As you educate a woman, you educate the family,’ she says. ‘If you educate the girls, you educate the future.’

Amelia Earhart

It only took a single plane ride at an air show in California and Earhart was hooked: ‘By the time I had got 200 or 300 feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly,’ said the American aviation trailblazer. Working as a truck driver, photographer and stenographer to save for flying lessons, she secured her license and bought a yellow bi-plane she named The Canary , going on to break records, from highest altitude climbs to fastest flights. The gung-ho tomboy teamed up with publicist George Putnam, who she married on his seventh proposal, telling him that marriage is a partnership ‘with dual control’. Some say he turned an average pilot into a legend, but there’s no denying Earhart alone spearheaded her successful attempt to be the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932. Her dream of circumnavigating the globe ‘as near its waistline as could be’ led to her last flight. In July 1937, she vanished over the Pacific. She wasn’t yet 40, and was never seen again.

Jane Goodall

‘How could you possibly love travelling 300 days a year,’ asks English primatologist Dame Jane Goodall, 84, ‘when it’s just hotels and meetings, all the lines at security, the terrible pat-you-downs and how they treat you like a criminal?’ Goodall details her flights for the next few months: Bangkok , Taiwan (which she loves), Beijing , Chengdu, Hong Kong , then Greece , Spain and France . She drags around a suitcase she named the Coffin, full of books, a single-cup electrical-heating element and a jar of Marmite, and always carries a stuffed toy monkey called Mr H. Yet the pioneering researcher-turned-activist doesn’t plan to change her schedule any time soon. Her lectures are near-evangelistic, often provoking tears and ovations. ‘They’ve been selling out, sometimes 5,000 seats in one day,’ she says. Goodall was 10, reading Dr Doolittle and Tarzan , when she decided ‘to live with wild animals in Africa’. After school, a friend invited her to Kenya and she worked as a waitress to save up for her boat passage to Mombasa in 1957. There she met the palaeontologist Louis Leakey who gave her the opportunity to work as a chimpanzee researcher, even fast-tracking her place at Cambridge so she would be qualified. She then spent half a century observing the chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania , tearing up the book on what we thought we knew of animal behaviour and inspiring a cultish obsession with our closest relative in the animal kingdom.

Valentina Tereshkova

In 1963, this Russian cosmonaut blasted off in the Vostok 6 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, becoming the first woman in space at only 26. Tereshkova orbited the planet 48 times and flew 1.2 million miles (barely eating, she says, because the tube-fed food was so disgusting). During the three-day mission, she racked up more hours solo in space than all American spacemen combined at the time. Her call sign was Chaika (Russian for seagull), given to her by Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. On her way up, she said: ‘Hey sky, take off your hat, I’m on my way!’ and was reprimanded by Gagarin, who was listening in. He hardly had cause, given that Tereshkova was game enough to continue the odd tradition he had started of peeing on the tyre of the transfer bus to the launch pad. After her landmark mission, she travelled the world before going into politics, and at 81 Tereshkova is still shaping policy as a member of the State Duma. An advocate of women’s rights, she complained that systems and spacesuits were designed by men for men. ‘A bird cannot fly with only one wing,’ she said. ‘Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.’ She still dreams about going into space and would agree to a one-way Mars mission in a heartbeat. ‘I am ready,’ she affirms.

Martha Gellhorn

Franklin D Roosevelt’s wife Eleanor so admired the chain-smoking war correspondent’s work that she invited her to live in the White House, which Gellhorn actually did for a while. Imagine that happening in 2019. However, life in Washington DC didn’t quite give Gellhorn her fix. Born in St Louis in 1908 to publicly progressive parents, she started out covering the horrors of the Great Depression and, after bunking down in the White House in 1934, wanted to get back to the battlefields of Vietnam , Nicaragua and the Middle East. Conflict was what made this striking beauty tick. She swung between affairs, most famously with Ernest Hemingway . The pair met in a bar in Key West and did eventually marry (with roast moose for the wedding feast). The early days of their life together were spent covering the Spanish Civil War from Madrid’s frequently shelled Hotel Florida, and they tried to build a home in Cuba, listening to Chopin’s Mazurka in C Major while Gellhorn planted a garden of dahlias, petunias and morning glories. But the relationship didn’t last. Lured back to Europe, she reported on the Blitz and joined British bomber crews on raids over Germany. On D-Day, Gellhorn managed to get ashore while the rest of the press corps – including Hemingway – watched from the sea through binoculars. Her shattering writing certainly brought the wider world home in a new way. She described herself as ‘permanently dislocated – un voyageur sur la terre ’ and worked into her ninth decade, covering the American invasion of Panama in 1989.

Kris Tompkins

The extreme conservationist behind one of the greatest land legacies ever, California-born Tompkins chose to carve out her adult life thousands of miles from home, in Patagonia. ‘We would fly almost every day, in all kinds of weather, scoping out new conservation possibilities. We learned to love the landscape – even more so from above. I would attribute a lot of our understanding of the earth from our thousands of hours of flying together.’ She speaks of ‘we’ a lot, referring to her late second husband Doug Tompkins, who died in 2015. Together she and Doug (who both made their millions separately with outdoor-clothing companies – he as the co-founder of The North Face, Inc and she the ex-CEO of rival Patagonia) tirelessly worked to preserve the pristine wilderness and rainforest on both the Chilean and Argentinian sides of the border. And now she’s pushing on with their land-restoration work, recently donating more than a million acres to the Chilean government chiefly in the Patagonia and Pumalín National Parks. ‘Getting people travelling was absolutely one of our goals; we didn’t make everything private and put a lock on it; we wanted people to get out into the wild and fall in love again. If they think a place is fabulous, then they can’t sit back and do nothing to try to protect it; we need deeply rooted responsibility.’ Curiously, she feels like she came late to travelling: ‘I’m not a very good holiday person. There needs to be a reason for hitting the road, associated with work or teaching me how the earth is degrading.’ Upcoming trips include South Georgia Island, one of her favourite places, and sailing through the Northwest Passage – both cold places, but ‘I have pretty good gear,’ she says, smiling.

Freya Stark

Stark was 100 when she died and it was a life that could not have been richer or fuller. Born in 1893, she chronicled her journeys to remote regions of the Middle East in some of the world’s most poetic travel literature, first visiting French Lebanon in 1927, slipping through a military cordon surrounding the Druze, while carrying ‘a copy of Dante’s Inferno , very little money, a revolver and a fur coat.’ She went on to investigate the mysterious assassins of Persia, became the first Western woman to explore Luristan in Iran , followed the ancient frankincense route, ventured to northern Yemen in 1940 and finally settled to live in Baghdad. She was drawn to remote and risky places, choosing to go alone, and remarking that she found confronting danger a way of 'passing through fear, to the absence of fear'. Her seven languages, mostly self-taught, helped her research an impressive body of work that includes The Valley of the Assassins , The Hadhramaut , Letters from Syria , Beyond Euphrates , Riding to the Tigris and The Minaret of Djam — books that have inspired a generation of travel writers with their evocative descriptions of harems and caravans. After her death in Asolo in north-east Italy , the newspapers referred to her as ' la regina nomade '.

The South Sudanese musician is a traveller in the rawest sense, having been a refugee her entire life. Born on an unknown date around 1983, at the height of the Second Sudanese Civil War, she saw her family torn apart. Aged 10, she lost her mother; her father raped and threatened to kill her. She fled to Khartoum but was repeatedly sexually abused by her employers. When she eventually made it to a refugee camp in Kenya and managed to find her brother, Emmanuel Jal, who had become an acclaimed hip-hop artist, the pair recorded a song called ‘Gua’ (meaning peace in their native Nuer tongue); it reached number one in Kenya. Nyaruach also went public with her life story in War Child , the award-winning documentary focusing on her brother’s time as a child soldier. In 2013, she was invited to Aswan, Egypt, to take part in the Nile Project, which represented the region’s best musicians, culminating in a concert in Cairo. Now a single mother of two living in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, Nyaruach is facing travel restrictions, but she and her brother have put out an Afrobeat album, Naath , and are aiming to tour the UK and the USA this year. The music, inspired by traditional folklore, reflects on the resilient culture of their homeland. Nyaruach says that she wants to help prevent women and children of war from losing hope. A hero for our times, surely.

Robyn Davidson

‘Perhaps all Australians have some sense of the desert buried in their psyches,’ says intrepid adventurer Davidson. Her own fascination stemmed from being raised on a cattle station – ‘those early sensual signals of dry air and the smell of arid grass’. She remembers feeling restless, wanting ‘to do something big and challenging’. She moved from Sydney to Alice Springs in 1975, got a job as a waitress and two years later, aged 26, embarked on a nine-month, 1,700-mile trek from the Northern Territory to the coast, across a ‘transcendent landscape’, with her dog and four camels. It was documented in National Geographic , then in her book Tracks (which she wrote at the London home of novelist Doris Lessing) and on the big screen, in the Golden Lion-nominated film starring Mia Wasikowska. Davidson tells of the extreme heat, poisonous snakes and lecherous men – but the journey ends in triumph, swimming with her camels in the Indian Ocean . She was occasionally joined by journalist Rick Smolan, who photographed her progress, and by Eddie, an indigenous man who walked her through the Jameson Ranges. Since Tracks , she has studied and written about nomadic people, and spends several months a year in the Himalayas . She writes hoping her readers too will consider choosing ‘an adventure of the spirit’.

Her hair may have greyed in her early thirties, but Arnold reached the grand age of 99, having spent her long life behind the lens after she was given a $40 Rolleicord camera by a boyfriend. In New York she shot ‘drunken bums sleeping in the Bowery and sun glinting off rope’ and loved it so much she abandoned a medical degree to become the first woman member of the award-winning Magnum agency, where photographers retain full copyright. Raised in Philadelphia by Ukrainian immigrants, Arnold was mostly self-taught, with a dash of guidance from Harper’s Bazaar art director Alexey Brodovitch. Her photojournalism had a critical social eye, seeking an intimacy with subjects from minority to celebrity, Malcolm X to Marilyn Monroe. When she photographed men, they became ‘flirtatious and fun’ and female subjects felt ‘less as if they’re expected to be in a relationship’. Hers was a life on the road, as seen in the portraits of Mongolian horse trainers, Chinese factory workers, Cuban prostitutes and political prisoners in Russia . When away on assignment she would queue for hours to phone her son. ‘If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given,’ she said.

Laura Dekker

The uniquely determined Dutch-born Dekker is the youngest person to sail solo around the world – she was just 14 when she set off. The challenge to get her out on the water was astonishing in itself: social services tried to stop her because of her age. They went to court and Dekker won; she says those memories keep her up at night more than fears of pirates. The voyage went ahead in 2010, commencing in Gibraltar. What followed were 518 days alone on the 38ft, two-masted Guppy , fitting in her homework and learning to play the flute to pass the time. Every teenage schoolgirl worth her salt read Dekker’s blog, and she celebrated her feat by eating doughnuts on the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten before deciding against going home, sailing on to Whangarei, New Zealand the port where she had been born (her parents had moored here two years into a seven-year sailing trip, and she spent her first five years at sea). Dekker turned her experience into a no-gloss documentary, Maidentrip , and a book, One Girl One Dream . And she’s still living on a boat.

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Born a decade before the Wright Brothers even attempted flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Coleman became the first African-American woman to hold a pilot’s licence. The daughter of a black mother and a mixed-race father, Coleman laboured in the cotton fields of Texas with her 12 sisters and brothers as a child. But unlike most Americans of that era, she finished high school, then went on to study at Langston University, dropping out only because she could not afford the fees. Later, while working as a manicurist at the White Sox Barber Shop in Chicago , she saw pictures in the newspapers of airforce pilots and started to dream. One of her brothers teased her: ‘You ain’t never goin’ to fly. Not like those women I saw in France’ (he had served in Europe during World War I). That galvanised her completely. After all the American flying schools turned her down, Coleman signed up for French lessons and applied to France ’s most elite flight school – where she learnt to fly, as well as to master stunts such as tailspins. On returning to the USA in 1921, she was unable to become a commercial pilot because of her race and gender and worked as a stunt pilot, declining to appear at any air show that refused entry to blacks. Her motto was ‘No Uncle Tom stuff for me’. She overturned social conventions – smoking cigarettes, heading out without a chaperone – and had ‘plans to establish a flying school and teach the Negro to fly so they will able to serve their country better’, but she died before her dream could be realised. She was killed, aged just 34, during a test flight (her mechanic was piloting), when the plane went into a spin and she fell out of the open cockpit.

Hanli Prinsloo

When record-breaking South African freediver Prinsloo gives talks, she demonstrates the slowing down of her breathing, quite fascinating in itself. She also reminds everyone that every second inhalation we take comes from the ocean. ‘It’s not only the trees that supply our oxygen,’ she says. Unsurprisingly, she prefers to travel by boat than plane, but can’t avoid getting on flights given she teaches the sport all over the world — in the company of whale sharks in Madagascar , humpback whales in the South Pacific and orcas in Norway . But her favourite marine creatures are dolphins: ‘they make eye contact, twirl around you until they’re dizzy with the absolute joy of the connection,’ she says. To stay healthy — critical in this line of work — she ‘pops loads of vitamins, drinks gallons of water’ and to avoid coughs and colds uses Uber rather than public transport (regrettably, she adds). It’s been a long journey from her rural beginnings growing up on a land-locked farm, but from an early age Prinsloo had a dream to become a mermaid (she and her sister even had their own mermaid language). She couldn’t afford to attend university in South Africa, but heard you could study for free in Sweden if you spoke Swedish; she moved there, learnt the language in six months and signed up to study acting in Gothenburg. A college buddy introduced her to freediving and Prinsloo showed promise. On graduation, she moved to the Red Sea to dedicate herself to the sport. After smashing 11 world-bests and notching up a staggering breath-hold of five minutes 39 seconds, she gave up competing. Now her time is split between teaching and running her charity I Am Water, that shows underprivileged children living in coastal communities the wonder of their marine backyard, aiming to educate and rouse the next generation of conservationists. ‘I am terrified of our reckless overfishing,’ she says. ‘We run the risk of literally eating our oceans empty.’ Yet she’s always upbeat and positive: ‘It is a complex situation with many challenges, but also many solutions.’

Cheryl Strayed

Obsessed with travel since she was a ‘kid in elementary school, looking at maps on classroom walls imagining all the ways (her) life would be expanded if (she) got to Australia or New York City or South Africa ’, Strayed grew up without money for plane tickets and hotel rooms. She battled with heroin and a messy divorce. But she managed to notch up the miles on the cheap exploring the US in her 1979 Chevy LUV pickup called Myrtle, which she fitted out with a twin-sized futon. ‘I was very bold sleeping in the back… it wasn’t locked… anyone could have come in… but that helped give me the courage to be out in the wilderness.’ And Strayed (her made-up, adopted name for herself) is best known for finding her escape in the wilderness – hiking along the Pacific Crest Trail – which she wrote about in her New York Times bestseller Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found , later turned into the film starring Reese Witherspoon. Oprah Winfrey even relaunched her Book Club in part to share Strayed’s intelligently, elegantly written memoir. Yes, it is a travelogue, but it’s also an extraordinary message on how travelling, exploring, sheer physical movement can be a balm, can bring about meaningful resolution. ‘Barely a day’s passed (since publishing Wild ) that I haven’t met or received an email from someone who’s said to me, “I went and did this because of you, I hiked the PCT or another trail,”' Strayed says. ‘I’m deeply honoured that people read Wild and do that.’ Now married with two children living in a Prairie Craftsman home in Portland , Oregon, she’s trying to give her family the experiences she wished she’d had growing up. ‘I pull the kids out of school and we go travelling for a couple of months. They’ve been to 27 countries. It’s an important part of their education.’ Upcoming, she vows ‘to return to New Zealand, that’s top of my list,’ and ‘I turned 50 last month, so I’ve promised myself I’m going to get myself to Italy within the year.’

Dian Fossey

The National Geographic image of a passionate intrepid scientist ensconced among the Virunga volcanoes with a family of affectionate mountain gorillas is not the whole truth. Nor is her 1983 book, Gorillas in the Mist , later made into the film in which she was played by Sigourney Weaver. The American primatologist was also known as a bully, intimidating her staff, behaving erratically, traits further exacerbated by her hard drinking habits. Yet she had her admirers – in wonder at her total commitment, call it obsessive, to these majestic animals that were being heavily poached at the time. After travelling extensively throughout Africa , she founded the Karisoke Research Centre and based herself here in Rwanda’s cloud forest. Of her first ever encounter with the species, she was struck by ‘their individuality combined with the shyness of their behaviour’. But her extreme single-mindedness to protect the animals and her unpredictable ways isolated her. Relationships soured with the local community, with fellow researchers and conservationists. Those who cared about her begged her to leave and take up a university position back in the USA. But her calling was too strong. She remained — and was murdered two days after Christmas in 1985 at the age of 48. The exact circumstances of her death still remain unclear, but she had many enemies. Appropriately she lies in the burial ground of her research gorillas, including her favourite, Digit. On her tomb the plaque reads: ‘No one loved gorillas more.’ It might be difficult to love Fossey, but she made the world love gorillas.

Harriet Chalmers Adams

‘I’ve wondered why men have so absolutely monopolised the field of exploration,’ she told The New York Times in 1912. ‘I’ve never found my sex a hinderment; never faced a difficulty which a woman, as well as a man, could not surmount; never felt a fear of danger; never lacked courage to protect myself.’ Adams helped found the Society of Women Geographers after being refused entry to the men-only Explorers Club – despite a lifetime spent on the road. Born in California , this fearless, multilingual photo-journalist’s first forays took her to Mexico when she was 24, followed by a two-year trip from the Andes to the Amazon, and later crossing Haiti by horseback — documenting her travels in National Geographic magazine. Fascinated by tales of migration, she followed Christopher Columbus’s route through the West Indies, the Spanish conquistadores’ crusades into South America and Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage from Spain to the Philippines, as well as covering World War I from the trenches of France . All that squeezed into 61 years; she settled and died in Nice, perhaps at its Mediterranean loveliest, in 1937.

Jeanne Baret

Born in France in 1740, Baret was the first woman to circumnavigate the globe – disguised as a man, of course; at the time women were forbidden on French navy ships. She’d been working as housekeeper to, before becoming the lover of, naturalist Philibert de Commerçon, who’d been invited to join the round-the-world expedition of Commander Louis Antoine de Bougainville. Feigning to be his male valet, and dressed up in loose-fitting clothes, her chest strapped flat with strips of linen, she and De Commerçon set sail on the Étoile in December 1766. For two years they managed to maintain the fiction, no mean feat given there were 116 men on board living in close quarters. Ship journals are contradictory, but there is some suggestion she pronounced herself a eunuch when suspicions were raised about her gender; other accounts hint at violence and rape. Meanwhile, Baret pressed on with her work, particularly because De Commerçon was sickly on board; in Rio de Janeiro , it was she who ventured ashore — plucking a flower to be named after the captain, bougainvillaea. Over the course of the voyage, the pair collected more than 6,000 botanical samples from around the world, disembarking the ship in Mauritius — the circumstances unclear — to continue their botanical studies.

Junko Tabei

In spring 1975, just after the Vietnam War finally drew to a close and as Diane von Furstenberg’s wrap dresses were selling in their millions and Tammy Wynette’s 'Stand By Your Man' was blaring from Roberts Radios across the UK, a 35-year-old, five-foot-tall Japanese climber became the first woman to scale Mount Everest as part of an all-female team she had put together. Think about the more localised context and her achievements are even more brilliant. ‘Back in 1970s Japan , men were the ones to work outside and women were asked just to serve tea,’ she said. Yet against this backdrop, Tabei started the Ladies Climbing Club and worked more than one job to fund expeditions — as an editor of a scientific journal, a piano tutor and teaching English. Funding requests were blanked with responses such as ‘You should be raising children instead'. Which, by the way, she was. As she climbed Everest, back home her daughter turned three (Tabei drew a birthday cake on a postcard and sent it from High Camp). At the summit, she remembered thinking: ‘Oh, I don’t have to climb any more,’ an idea that didn’t last long. She was first woman to notch up the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each continent. Even after being diagnosed with cancer, she continued to climb. At 76, she had scaled the highest peaks of 76 countries, while promoting sustainable mountaineering and lesser-known climbing areas. She died a year later.

Dervla Murphy

It was soon after her 10th birthday and the gift of a second-hand bicycle from her parents that Murphy resolved to cycle to India . She writes: ‘I have never forgotten the exact spot, on a steep hill near Lismore, where this decision was made. Half-way up, I rather proudly looked at my legs, slowly pushing the pedals around, and the thought came: “If I went on doing this for long enough, I could get to India.”’ That journey, 20 years later, was documented in Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle , passing through Afghanistan (where she says she became ‘Afghanatical’, describing the country as ‘a man after my own heart’) and Pakistan (where she was a guest of the last Wali of Swat Miangul Aurangzeb). Her writing has become unapologetically political: the struggles post-apartheid in South from the Limpopo: Travels Through South Africa ; The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe , exploring the impact of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa ; and Visiting Rwanda , reflecting on the 1994 genocide. A prolific writer, at 87 she’s written 24 travel books covering 54 countries, with adventures such as meeting a tiger when cycling through the Nepalese Terai, watching the emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie single-handedly quell a student riot in Addis Ababa and losing her packhorse – panicked by a leopard – camping in the mountains of Cameroon.

Gertrude Bell

Often called a female Lawrence of Arabia, this Englishwoman was arguably much more. Born into wealth and privilege in 1868, Bell read Modern History at Oxford , one of the few subjects women were allowed to study at the time. She headed off on her travels: spending years moving around the Middle East – from Tehran to Jerusalem to Beirut to Damascus – and became fluent in Persian, Arabic, French and German, as well as speaking Italian and Turkish, and holding titles such as Liaison Officer, Correspondent to Cairo and Oriental Secretary for the British government. At the end of the war, Bell was pivotal in drawing up the borders of modern-day Iraq and shaping the country's politics. She has been described as ‘one of the few representatives of His Majesty’s Government remembered by the Arabs with anything resembling affection’. A mean mountaineer as well, she also spent time in the Alps , summiting both La Meije and Mont Blanc, and had one peak in the Bernese Oberland, Gertrudspitze, named after her. Praise back in the day was hardly that, such as: she has ‘masculine vigour, hard common sense and practical efficiency – all tempered by feminine charm and a most romantic spirit’. Bell lived out her last days in Baghdad, where she took up again archaeology, founding what became the National Museum of Iraq.

Maureen Wheeler

Wheeler grew up in a housing estate in Belfast , but she had dreams far beyond the borders of Northern Ireland. With her new husband Tony, they hit the hippie trail and backpacked from the UK to Australia in the early 1970s – a wholly different time when Kabul was a must-see, many of Thailand ’s beaches were still undiscovered and Bali had but a few rudimentary hostels. When the couple arrived in Australia they were flat broke with just 27 cents in their pocket, but they’d been inspired by their journey. They set about writing a guidebook, which they called Across Asia on The Cheap , sticking it together around their kitchen table with foul-smelling glue, before trying to peddle it to friends and then bookshops. The year was 1972 and Lonely Planet was born, which was set to become the world’s biggest travel guidebook outfit (35 years later BBC Worldwide bought the publishing company for tens of millions). Maureen never stopped travelling, even when she was at her busiest with the company and with her two children. In fact, she wrote Travel With Children as a shout-out to parents who were hesitant to hit the road with their families, including practical tips and, in the latest edition, travel stories written by her kids. Critically, Lonely Planet carries on the mission that independent travel is easy and doesn’t cost a fortune – and that has inspired millions to haul on a backpack and head off across the world.

Karen Blixen

‘I had a farm in Africa , at the foot of the Ngong Hills…’ is probably one of the most evocative film openings, conjuring up a dreamily romantic view of life in Africa, played out by Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. It was based, of course, on Karen Blixen’s memoir Out of Africa , published under her pen name Isak Dinesen. After an aristocratic upbringing in Denmark , schooled there and in Switzerland , Blixen and her Swedish second cousin, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, moved to Kenya , marrying in Mombasa before heading to the Rift Valley to learn Swahili and set up a coffee plantation: ‘Here at long last one was in a position not to give a damn for all conventions, here was a new kind of freedom which until then one had only found in dreams!’ The dream faded, though – Blixen grew weary of her husband’s long hunting trips and affairs, perhaps contracting syphilis from him, which she suffered from throughout her life. They divorced, but she continued to run the farm, now single-handedly, fighting drought, fire and creditors. She fell in love with the English big game hunter Denys Finch Hatton, with whom she travelled all over the country, at her happiest up in the clouds in his de Havilland Gipsy Moth. When his plane crashed, his death, coupled with the failure of the farm, forced Blixen to leave Kenya for good. She was a beguiling conversationalist, husky in voice (she smoked constantly) and with a piercing gaze, and above all was a luminous and prolific writer of books that set travel hearts racing, nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature twice; when Ernest Hemingway won, he suggested it should have gone to her.

Born James in 1926, Morris started his career as a young intelligence officer in Palestine and Italy during World War II and later, as a news journalist, meeting Che Guevara, visiting Hiroshima after the nuclear bomb and reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Of his many scoops, his greatest was Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s Everest climb in May 1953. He received the news of their summiting when James himself was at 23,000ft, dressed in short sleeves, and he scrambled down the mountain to despatch his copy – in code to avoid competitors stealing the story. ‘Snow conditions bad stop advanced base abandoned yesterday stop awaiting improvement’ actually meant success. James married, had children, and in 1972, he became Jan, a transition from man to woman documented in Conundrum, a powerful account that sees Jan and her lifelong partner Elizabeth emerging as heroines to lead their close-knit family. Morris’s essays, biographies and novels, including intimate portraits of Trieste, Oxford , New York , Hong Kong and Venice , have shaped our idea of what it is to go abroad, and what it is to belong. The impressive collection A Writer's World: Travels 1950–2000 reflects the life of a compulsive traveller, although during the final stages of her life before she sadly passed away in November 2020, she was mostly ensconced in her converted stable home in north-west Wales , ‘tired of taking my shoes off at airports’.

Amelia Earhart once toasted her saying ‘I felt an upstart compared to Miss Peck. Her mountain climbing rsum gives me the...

Annie Smith Peck

Amelia Earhart once toasted her, saying ‘I felt an upstart compared to Miss Peck. [Her] mountain climbing résumé gives me the impression I am just a softie. However, I am somehow comforted by the fact that [she] would make almost anyone appear soft.’ Black-and-white photographs of Peck show her heading off on expeditions wearing veiled hats with a brooch at her collar, before she changes her clothes and is snapped clutching an ice axe on mountain summits and zip-lining the Iguazu River. When the American famously climbed the Matterhorn in 1895 aged 45, the headlines focused on her wearing trousers. Fifteen years later she became the first climber to summit Mount Huascarán in Peru (at the age of 58)— pledging ‘to attain some height where no man had previously stood’. The epitaph of the scholar, suffragist and political activist reads: ‘you have brought uncommon glory to women of all time.’

Sarah Marquis

The 46-year-old Swiss explorer first ran away from home aged six, heading into the woods with her backpack and her father’s dog Sultan. ‘I was always a wild kid, the weirdo of the family,’ Marquis says. ‘My mum once called the police. They found me about an hour’s walk away. I’d spent the night in a cave full of bats.’ Marquis has turned that weirdness into a career — as a speaker and writer, recently nominated as National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. She’s not a scientist but likes to have a fact-finding mission to her expeditions, because ‘we need nature today more than ever.’ Her last trip was three months solo walking the west coast of Tasmania , collecting data on plant life for the Australian government; while there, she fell down a gorge, broke a shoulder and continued to carry her 35kg backpack on it for the next three days. Next she’s off to northern Canada to train for an upcoming expedition — by contrast, this time in the desert. The common theme is that she prefers to be alone. ‘I’m not good with teams,’ she admits. ‘People ask me: are you scared? and I say ‘of what?’. When she occasionally returns home, she retreats to a small cabin in the Swiss Alps — before she hears again the call of the wild. ‘I’ve explored our darkest corners through pain and fear,’ she says, ‘and I deal with the things that we don’t want to deal with because that’s what makes you powerful.’

Cristina Mittermeier

From small-town middle-class Mexico , her only travels as a child were once a year to Disneyland in Los Angeles but she was inspired to go further after reading the novels of Emilio Salgari, who ‘painted a picture of places that struck my imagination’. Mittermeier went on to study marine biology, imagining it would be more about ‘pirate ships and swimming with dolphins’ than the realities of ‘fisheries and exploitation’, a strange start for a woman who now runs SeaLegacy, the powerful ocean conservation non-profit. It’s been a long journey. In fact, for this award-winning 52-year-old photographer, it’s extraordinary to think she didn’t pick up a camera till she was 24. Then married to the president of Conservation International whose trips took them all around the world, she borrowed his camera and took a first snap of an indigenous community in Brazil which turned out to become the outside advertising banner for an Amazonian art exhibition at the Natural History Museum of Houston. She went back to school to study fine-art photography, while following her husband with their family to more than 100 countries. Then she started her own expeditions, established the International League of Conservation Photographers and now spends only a couple of months a year at home on Vancouver Island with her partner Paul Nicklen, also a marine biologist and photographer. The rest of the time they’re on the road posting for their millions of Instagram followers . Her latest book, Amaze , is just that, a 250-page book showcasing indigenous people from Ethiopia to Papua New Guinea to Greenland .

Noo Saro-Wiwa

This 42-year-old Nigerian writer grew up in Surrey , which she describes as ‘a bountiful paradise of Twix bars and TV cartoons and leylandii trees, far removed from the heat and chaos of Nigeria’ where you see ‘machine guns, tuxedos, army fatigues and evening frocks together at an airport.’ Her book Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria , is a brave first foray into travel literature; Noo’s father Ken Saro-Wiwa, who campaigned against government corruption, was executed by the military dictatorship of his country in 1995. Noo had spent childhood summers in Port Harcourt on the Niger Delta but after this, she didn’t return for 10 years (except for his funeral and burial), wanting nothing more to do with the country. But in time she began tackling the subject of homeland, the same way she’d approached writing guidebooks (on Ivory Coast, Guinea, Madagascar , Benin, Ghana and Togo for Lonely Planet and Rough Guides) and writes that she came ‘to love many things about Nigeria: our indigenous heritage, the dances, the masks, the music, the baobab trees and the drill monkeys’. ‘I’ve been amazed by how many people have written to me and told me they knew nothing about Nigeria and how I opened their eyes,’ she says. ‘I feel I have a responsibility there.’ She’s now penning a book about Africans who live in China , a country she’s fallen in love with (‘after China, everything feels very boring,’ she says), then plans one on the Niger Delta, followed by Switzerland , which she calls ‘the heart of darkness of Europe’.

Anisa Kamadoli Costa

A rooted New Yorker in every way, down to her immigrant parents (Costa’s mother is from Maharashtra, her father from Karnataka in India ), the Tiffany & Co Chief Sustainability Officer isn’t just sitting comfortably with her feet up on a Fifth Avenue mahogany desk. She spends at least half of the year on the road, personally overseeing her projects for the Tiffany & Co Foundation: opposing a proposed mine on Alaska’s Bristol Bay that would sit at the headwaters of one of the world’s greatest salmon fisheries and leading journalists to the Great Barrier Reef to raise awareness of ocean conservation. ‘Most people just don’t consider how important the oceans are to the world,’ Costa says. Her background includes stints at the US Mission to the United Nations and working for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund with the goal of ‘making sure Americans travel more’. She has spearheaded Tiffany’s support of the virtual-reality film Valen’s Reef about Indonesia’s Raja Ampat marine life (where 75 per cent of the planet’s coral species can be found) and champions the company’s ecological commitment, with all the profits from dedicated jewellery lines funding conservation projects. ‘When I travel I always try to think about the place as a whole, rather than just its airport code,’ she says.

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