solo female travel

It’s never too late to go on your first solo trip. Take it from Caroline, who’s just back from her first adventure abroad in over two decades.

While most of South East Asia is suitable for solo female travellers, these are places I’ve visited that I think are really safe, friendly and comfortable.

Diana Petterson is often the only Black solo traveller in her tour groups – and the destinations she visits, too. But that changed on an Intrepid trip to Iceland.

Saturn Returns is said to be an astrological phenomenon, occurring once every 27 to 31 years, where the universe shakes you up with dramatic events that make you question your life, your purpose, your relationships, everything. What a hoot!

Besides learning that, yes indeed, women can do anything, I also came back down to sea level with a handful of other valuable life lessons tucked under my belt and scribbled in my journal.

“You can do it.” I wish I could tell you that was my own voice, strong and positive, cheering myself on as I attempted to bike up my first mountain. Yes, that’s right: mountain.