Travel especially for women                        

by Julie Paterson

Want to travel to exotic places but can’t find anyone to go with you?

Enter Venus Adventures, global holidays for women who love to travel.

Let’s face it: women just like to do different things, talk about different subjects, shop and have fun. Without the boys around, girls can let their hair down, not worry about how they look or how good they are at something – quite simply, they can relax.

Venus Adventures’ philosophy is that there are three important facets to a trip: culture, adventure and fun. The cultural aspect means traveling in small groups, allowing you to get in amongst the locals and really see life as it is, like when staying with a Berber family in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The adventure part means partaking in fun activities that add a huge experience to your trip; riding camels out into the Sahara desert in Morocco and sleeping under an African sky is unforgettable. And fun…well, that goes without saying, but that could be anything from a belly-dancing lesson in Egypt to a cooking class in Vietnam. But besides gentle adventures and mingling with the locals, plenty of time is also allowed for “women’s stuff” - like trawling the local markets for exotic goodies, drinking a gin and tonic while watching the sunset, and indulging in spas.

However, many women have no-one to travel with: Venus Adventures provides a safe and fun way for women to go and see the world, without feeling excluded or vulnerable. And although women-only trips are nothing new – there are many companies offering “adventure” or “single activity” tours, like hiking or bike trips - Venus Adventures fills the gap in the women-only market for actual experiential holidays to exotic and mainstream destinations. These trips are a chance for women to see places they might not visit on their own, like Morocco, Egypt, Vietnam or Ethiopia. For Janice, 63, Morocco was the trip of a lifetime, and it gave her a new-found sense of adventure, “I think about the trip a lot and find it hard to believe I did all that stuff…riding camels into the Sahara, rafting and hiking. It was highlight after highlight”.


“There is a different dynamic when women are together, there is a mutual understanding,” says Julie Paterson, adventure guide and founder of Venus Adventures,” I have lived a very full life and I want to encourage other women to do the same, that is why I started this company. Life is not a dress rehearsal.”
There are a myriad of reasons for going on a women-only trip, and everyone will have their own one - but who needs a reason – the Venus Adventures motto says it all: “Life is uncertain – eat cake!”

Contact: www.venusadventures.travel

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