Solo Female Travelers

Hello, hello Reader, How are you doing this week? I am finally here to let you know that our amazing trip to Kyrgyzstan is live on the website! YAY! With all that said, as with all our tours, we welcome all women, but also know that this trip is not for everyone. To avoid being carried away by the photos and stunning viral content on social media, without realising the type of experience we have put together or how this trip different from other trips we offer, we have decided to make...

Hi Reader, I am so happy to be back home after a month of travel. A month may not look like so much travel, but when you are changing hotels almost every night, running out of clean clothes (and limited options to wash them) and trying to run a business while also meeting lots of people, visiting many places and , it eventually is exhausting. Plus I am not 25 anymore and menopause makes some days extra challenging... I am only home for 4 days and off again to London! In normal circumstances,...

Hi Reader, How are you today? I am on my last day in Tajikistan, on a short personal trip to this mountainous country that has its own unique language, towering mountain ranges and dramatic landscapes. I hav to say tourism here is minimal with fewer than 2 million people visiting almost entirely on a tour of the "Stans" including either Uzbekistan or other countries. This is because it is easy to drive over from Tashkent or Samarkand, both of which are about 1-2h from the land border. Tajik...

Hi Reader, I am in my last days in Central Asia, currently in Tajikistan and ending in Tashkent in a couple of days. I did a photoshoot in Samarkand with a professional photographer and I now understand how celebrities feel... I had at least 1,000 people looking at me running and twirling in a 3m long tail dress and let me tell you, it was helpful to make me smile on every photo! 😅 On this week's email: A month on from my French Polynesia tour, I wanted to reflect on the recent quiet but...

Hi Reader, How are you today? I am still Uzbekistan and enjoying very much my time here. I have organized two photoshoots in Samarkand tomorrow and I am super excited for them. We all love to feel beautiful and like celebrities from time to time and the backdrop of the precious blue tiled mosques, madrasas and buildings in Registan Square and Shah-i-Shinda are just the perfect backdrop. I woke up super early and came to the old city in Bukhara a couple of days ago armed with my tripod just...

Hi Reader, I am in Uzbekistan still, enjoying all the stunning architecture, the bright blue tiles and the well preserved Silk Road buildings. It has been a joy and a shock to return just 7 years later and find a country so changed, so focused on tourism, and genuinely booming. I am feeling a bit like when I was in Vietnam a few months ago: tourism has really taken off here and with it, infrastructure, construction, traffic jams, crowds, places focused entirely on tourism and so many new...

Hi Reader, How are you today? I just left Kyrgyzstan for Uzbekistan and I am about to continue on my second leg of this journey here. Horse riding in Kyrgyzstan I am returning to Uzbekistan for the second time and in this ocassion, I have plenty of time in each city to see it all, visit and stay at various hotels, check out and eat at different restaurants, etc. It's going to be a wonderful trip, and as usual, it will also include many women business owners, entrepreneurs and experts who will...

HI Reader, How is your week going so far? How was the weekend? I am in Kyrgyzstan on my month-long trip in Central Asia to visit Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. So far, I am loving Kyrgyzstan. The people are so warm and friendly, tourism is still pretty incipient here which means few people around, and very few aspects set up just for tourists. The landscapes are just so beautiful here And the landscapes...everywhere you look at towering mountains as high as 7,000 meters, horses...

Hi Reader, I hope your week is going great and that it will become even better with this week's recap of the best travel tips shared from almost 4 years of weekly newsletters! Me at Siwa Oasis in Egypt on our group tour If you are new here, my name is Mar Pages and I am one of the Co-Founders of Solo Female Travelers alongside Meg Jerrard, my partner in crime. We organize small group tours for women that support women owned businesses around the world. We also do many other things, like:...

Hello, hello Reader, I am at home about to depart on my Central Asia month-long trip through Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Follow us on Instagram where I will be sharing the trip live and join our waitlist if you'd like to join us on our inaugural trips in 2027. On this week's email: We have just published the 26th episode of the podcast, and reached 10,000 downloads, YAY! So it is time to look back and see the ones that you have loved the most. This week, The World Economic Forum...