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Italy: The Best Place for Your First Solo Trip

July 28, 2025

Where should I travel for my first solo trip — and why is it Italy, you may ask? Italy is my top recommendation for women traveling solo. There are so many postcard moments of beautiful historic plazas, buildings, and art museums that you have to see in person to believe. The people are the kindest,…

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Why the Fanny Pack is the Best Purse for Solo Travel

October 2, 2024

To say that I travel a lot is an understatement. Since I’m often catching flights, I have learned to embrace minimalist packing and it all starts with my fanny pack. Whether you call it a fanny pack, belt bag, sling bag, or bum bag, it’s that small pouch worn around the waist or across your chest.…

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Solo Female Travel in New Zealand: Where Should You Go and Is It Safe?

July 23, 2019

Kia Ora and welcome to New Zealand, voted by you, The Travel Women, as the number one place to visit in 2019! Home to a wealth of Māori culture and enough Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film locations to satisfy every movie buff, New Zealand is an outdoor wonderland full of volcanic activity you…

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Kaeli Conforti 2 Comments
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Safety Tips for Your First Solo Trip Abroad

July 19, 2018

Travel is always exciting, but solo travel is empowering. Read on for safety tips while traveling alone! I love touching down in a new country or road-tripping to a new city. There’s something inexplicably electric about taking it all in for the first time and wondering what the week (or month, or year) has in…

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13 Things Every Woman Should Know Before Travelling to India

May 27, 2018

Written by Manjul Rathee, who grew up in India and is CEO & Founder of Soulscape. As a girl who grew up in India, an Army brat (born in the household of an Army personnel) I had the fortune and opportunity to travel extensively to some of the most remote areas of this amazing country.…

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Solo Travel NYC

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: New York City Locations

March 23, 2018

Where do we find the first installment of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts series other than New York City in the 1920s? The magical prequel series takes place a lifetime before Harry Potter in 1926 to be exact. Although the sets and effects create a vintage New York City backdrop, the movie was in fact filmed…

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11 Fun Facts About Japan Rail Pass, Trains and Stations
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11 Fun Facts About Japan Rail Pass, Trains and Stations

January 3, 2018

Japan is known for cutting-edge technology and its record-breaking bullet trains. The Shinkansen, or bullet trains, are futuristic-looking trains that travel at about 300km/hr, or 200 mph. The easiest and most efficient way to get around is often by train. Tourists visiting multiple cities in Japan should get the Japan Rail Pass, or JR Pass,…

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