From Matt: For close to a year, Kristin Addis from Be My Travel Muse has been writing a monthly column on solo female travel for this website. She’s covered WWOOFing in South Africa, hitchhiking in China, safety tips, what to tell naysayers, and much, much more. Over the last few months in response to many emails and inquires, Kristin and I worked together on a guide to solo female travel. It includes lots of practical travel information but also tips and advice that are specific to women and their travel needs. It’s an awesome book. Here’s Kristin in her own words describing the book and what makes it so special.
When I first decided to travel the world alone several years ago, I was just like many of you — nervous, scared, and unsure if I was going to make it out alive. People worried I would end up like characters in the movie Taken, raped, or worse.
“It’s a dangerous world. Haven’t you seen the news?” they would say to me.
Their fears and doubts were infectious.
I was so scared and worried by their comments that it took me a full year to execute my plan, beginning with a one-way ticket to Asia. I had to build up my courage (and savings) for the trip first.
I remember wishing there was some sort of all-inclusive guide that could answer every travel and safety question I had. I was looking for reassurance that I was going to be OK, and I wanted someone to make the planning process simple for me, so that I could feel more confident about it all.
And as a woman who planned to travel alone, I never felt that the general “travel the world” books that did exist really dealt with my situation or me personally.
Fast forward three years: since then I’ve hitchhiked around China, driven a car across South Africa, trekked for weeks in Nepal without a guide, learned how to say “thank you” in nearly 40 languages, and met many amazing people along the way, all while traveling on my own.
It turned out that solo travel was something I could do, and all those fears were for naught.
However, no matter how much I blog here or on my own website, I get emails every day from women in the same position that I was in back in the beginning — dying to travel the world, nervous, unsure where to start, and looking for a book that speaks to them.
This isn’t the first guidebook out there that deals with solo female travel, but I found that the other guidebooks I read all failed to deal with the biggest issue of all: getting over the fear. When started my journey I wanted to feel safe, encouraged, and I wanted practical tips about how to head off the beaten path, meet locals, and have unique, authentic experiences. This book lives up to its title – it helps to kill your fears so that you can be the architect of your own adventure.
If you are worried about going solo, ruining future job prospects, risking your safety, and explaining your desire to see the world to friends and family who don’t understand, this guide is for you.
Conquering Mountains: A Guide to Fearless Solo Female Travel
I’ve written this practical guide for solo female travelers because embarking on this new lifestyle can seem like a monumental, daunting task. In reality, more people are taking trips alone every year, with solo traveler numbers jumping from 13% of travelers in 2013 to 36% today.
When the planning process is broken down into manageable pieces, it becomes much simpler and even exciting.
Most of all, I want to reassure you that it is going to be OK. Let go of your fears, stop holding back, and become one of the increasing number of women who decide to live their own adventure.
What’s in this book?
Turn the most nerve-wracking parts of the solo traveling process — getting over the fear, saving, planning, and staying safe — into a piece of cake!
Each concern is addressed in detail so that anyone with a dream of traveling solo for the first time can make it a reality.
- Learn how to get over the fear of traveling alone quickly and effectively.
- Discover how to build the self-confidence you need to embark on the journey of a lifetime.
- Deal with naysayers painlessly and effectively.
- Master the art of saving up with easy, little-known tips and tricks to jump-start and streamline the process.
- Learn how to travel for free, with an entire section devoted to working, living, and volunteering on the road.
- Use money-stretching financial tips from Harvard-educated experts, banking advice, and tips on how to keep costs down.
- Earn more while traveling by exploring a multitude of creative ways to tap into the sharing economy.
- Make your résumé shine, using my expert tips to leverage your travels.
- Plan your trip with regional, ticketing, and budgeting advice from top solo female travel experts and get sample packing lists, healthcare advice, and every little detail you need to take care of before embarking.
- Meet others easily using the tried-and-true tips I’ve developed over three years of solo traveling.
- Stay safe with extensive resources on how to avoid being a target and how to deal with things going wrong quickly and painlessly.
- Stay connected with friends and family while abroad easily—and for free!
- Save time with the links and resources in the book — your one-stop guide to a successful solo journey.
- Ensure that you have the trip of a lifetime and don’t miss out, thanks to a section dedicated to maximizing the solo journey.
The information in this book was compiled using my own firsthand experience after three years of successful solo travel, but I didn’t stop there. I asked 15 other well-established solo traveling women to give me their best advice – and they are extensively quoted throughout the book. Additionally, there are 6 in-depth case study interviews from other female traveler like yourself:
 Christine, 27, USA |
 Marilynn, 67, USA |
 Dijana, 34, Bosnia |
 Tara, 21, Canada |
 Jaimee 27, USA |
 Wilaiwan, 54, Thailand |
Many of the guidebooks on the market today are too general, or are geared towards women by written by men (what?!). They don’t take into account the specific needs and concerns that women have, and it was high time that a book directly addressed those needs. This guide delves deeply into safety, features packing lists created especially for women, and helps you to have the most enriching solo travel experience possible.Conquering Mountains will save you the hours upon hours you’d otherwise spend researching online, looking at advice that may not even be trustworthy.
GET STARTED TODAY!!
In writing this guide, I wanted to make it clear that I’m not special or extraordinarily brave just because I travel alone. There is no special personality type or formula that makes one person a better solo traveling candidate than another.
Just because right now you’re living a life that feels ordinary, that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something extraordinary. Just because someone doubts your abilities doesn’t mean that he is right. Don’t let fear hold you back from doing what’s in your heart.
Prove to yourself how fearless and amazing you can really be. Conquering Mountains will help you get there.
Go from armchair traveler to courageous and fearless world traveler. Take the guesswork and researching out of the solo travel process, so that you can get right into the important stuff — enjoying your trip of a lifetime.
This is your chance to know yourself better, meet people from all over the world, experience amazing kindness, and develop strength and perseverance that you might have never known you had.
Whether you’re embarking on an endless trip or taking a shorter introductory jaunt, solo traveling is one of life’s greatest gifts and it’s something that you can make happen!
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