Isabelle Fish Do you travel just to tick a box, or do you explore with a focus - food, wine, cycling, hiking, culture. For Isabelle Fish her passion is jewelry. Her passion for jewelry led not only to her own travels, but to leading others on Journeys Through Jewelry with her company Rue Pigalle. I am french but have lived in many countries around the world. I was a lawyer for most of my life but decided in 2010 to open my jewelry … [Read more...]
Writing and Travel
Personally I love to write as I travel - it helps me reflect more deeply on what I see and experience around me. I am working now on some stories of my recent trip to North Queensland - so watch this space! Do you want a trip that is dedicated to writing? Our fabulous new website WomenTravel the World has over 500 tours for women and at present there are four trips which are focused on writing coming up. The Advanced Search page … [Read more...]
Dive deep into New Zealand Culture
Let Koru Enterprises organise your New Zealand trip! Louise Booth created Koru Enterprises whilst living in Brisbane, Australia. She was homesick for her native country of Aotearoa, New Zealand, and created an online boutique NZ tour and artisan gift e-commerce company. Arriving back home in 2018, I based myself in the stunning Hawke’s Bay region, close to where my mum was born in Dannevirke. This is the perfect base to take … [Read more...]
Kim Love India Travels
Kim Thanlinder first came to india in 1989, crossing the border from Nepal and arriving in Varanasi, a sacred city on the banks of the Ganges. India was so intense,exciting and overwhelming. At times I felt I was dreaming. I spent 3 weeks on that first journey and knew I wanted to come back. It took me ten years to do so. So trips followed to Rajasthan, karnataka and up to the Himalayas and Ladakh, little Tibet. Kim fell in love … [Read more...]
Story of Laxmi Sunar – Woman Trek leader in Nepal
Laxmi Sunar, a 35 years old from Jumla, which is one of the remote districts of Nepal belongs to a low caste family. She never attended school. At the age of 15, her neighbors arranged marriage for her in Mugu, the west Nepal. Laxmi had two daughters age seven and five. Her husband left her and married off to another woman. But Laxmi did not get along with her mother-in-law. During her husband’s veterinary course he married another women. He … [Read more...]
Travels Together for Women
Robyn Matra writes about how she started Travels Together ... in 2008, after a lot of solo traveling and a lot of conversations with female friends and women I met while traveling who all wanted the same thing – to travel with age-appropriate and like-minded women. Gone were the days of wanting to party all night. They wanted real, genuine experiences to untouched and undiscovered destinations with local, … [Read more...]
A Girls gotta have fun…
Cooking? Washing? No thanks I need a HOLIDAY Do you ever dream of just running away for a few days? Australia based Girls Fun Tours have put together some trips that you can say YES to. Struggling daily to balance the demands of a 'fast paced' life that we all seem to have - family, friends, work... Each of us needs to find our soul, maybe take the time we need to be the best person we can be - for ourselves and for our … [Read more...]
Motobird Adventures – Women hit the Road on motorcyles
Kerri Dougherty sold off everything she had and hit the road on her Kawasaki KLR650. She never looked back. Now Kerri leads women on motorcycle trips in California, across the USA and Baja with her company Motobird Adventures I rode alone over 10,000 miles, across 19 states and to the tip of Baja, Mexico. This gave me the ability to overcome difficulties and challenges. Traveling has always been a passion, learning to ride threw fuel on that … [Read more...]
Tours for Independent Thinking Women
Penny King lives in Adelaide South Australia and developed a passion for travel when she used to join her husband on business trips around the world. She met many women in her working life who were confident and organised but when it came to travel, not quite so. Some were single, some widowed, some had partners who didn’t want to travel etc. To a woman, they didn’t want the traditional organised tour, hated the idea of following along with a … [Read more...]
Adventurous Women – Join VakanShe walking and trekking in Europe
Like many of us Sietske was yearning to get away from it all, to do something different - she needed adventure. So she started VakanShe Active Holidays for Women I set up VakanShe so that adventurous women can enjoy travelling with like-minded women and enjoy an active holiday in a relaxed and safe environment. Follow Sietske on Facebook or visit her website VakanShe is one of the hundreds of women focused tour companies on womentravel.info … [Read more...]
