How To Travel As A Solo Female
July 28th, 2009 by Marina Kosmatos
Ever have the feeling that you just want to get up and go? On such a whim, I found myself in a foreign country where English wasn’t the first, or even second language, and I was all alone. I was on a packed public bus in Vietnam trying to find my hostel and doing my best to communicate with the bus driver who did not speak a lick of English. I got off the bus feeling helpless and tried to make sense of my surroundings. A cry of “Lady, u lost?” made me turn around and face a Vietnamese guy on a scooter. Within minutes, he figured out where I needed to go, drove me there on his scooter and gave me some banana bread that he had in his basket. It was this experience that made me realize that traveling as a solo female opens a world of opportunities and experiences that are not available to traveling couples or groups.
