On Women Travel the World Blog I recently wrote about Lisa Condie who went to Italy on holiday in 2012, and on her last day there decided she wanted to live in Florence. She has set up a small tour company dedicated to showing women the wonders of Tuscany. More Lyn and Chris are two New Zealand women who also fell in love with Italy, and now spend their time between Puglia … [Read more...]
Ubud Bali – Making the Most of a Day
By Featured Writer Courtney McCaffrey Female adventure traveler, writer, surfer A day is never enough time to spend in Ubud Bali. However, there are so many sites and adventures to cram into your Bali vacation, a day may be all you have to spend in the town littered with Hindu temples, traditional craft shops, juice bars, cheap (and quality) massages and some of Bali’s … [Read more...]
Bushwise Women is no More. Long Live Womens Holidays!
Bushwise Women was the brain child of Cynthia Roberts and her partner Roz Heinz. They gave up their careers in education and set up this company to take women into the outdoors. They took trips for women into much of New Zealand's South Island back country. They started mostly with day walks and kayaking from their Bushline Lodge on the West Coast, but they quickly … [Read more...]
Chris and Lyn offer Cooking School in Puglia
Lyn and Chris are New Zealanders who, as well as running The Gables Guest House at Akaroa, have for 13 years been leading small group tours to Italy. As chefs and foodies, their tours have always had a cooking theme - shopping at local markets, demonstrating how to cook and then of course eating the food and drinking the wine. For the first time Lyn and Chris are offering a … [Read more...]
Cycling Samoa
Women's Adventures NZ spent 10 days cycling in Samoa, here were some of the highlights From Day 2: Our first stop was the huge covered market to get some supplies for the trip. We had a couple of picnic lunches to buy for. The idea was to get the food, load it into the van, cycle off to a nearby swimming hole and have a lovely picnic in the sunshine……Yeah right. We ended up … [Read more...]
How Vietnam Got me Hooked…
Kylee runs Travel Vuda focusing on travel for women, from her base on the Coromandel Peninsula, in this guest post she writes about how it all started. She is also a fully licenced travel agent, so if you are looking for one, contact her. In one of many boxes I’ve unearthed some old travel notes from a big adventure I went on with my sister and good friend back in 2006. … [Read more...]
Your Guide to Voluntourism in Phuket
Guest post by Violet Jones On 26 December 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands of people in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and other countries along the coast. The devastation was unimaginable, and even close to a decade later the region is still recovering from the giant wave. While Thailand did not … [Read more...]
Inside Asia – help with planning your trip
One of the things that tour operators learn is how to get the most out of a few weeks holiday - what not to miss, where the cheapest and most characterful accommodation might be, how to get from one place to the next with the least fuss and time, how best to support local efforts at self determination. Since 1996 Pat and Murray Reedy have organised literally hundreds of guided … [Read more...]
Silk Road Adventures – Journey the Silk Road
Silk Road Adventures explores an Intriguing Frontier... Silk Road Adventures have been exploring the Silk Road through Asia since 1996. This area has become a passion for Pat Reedy and her husband Murray who are based in Greymouth in the South Island of New Zealand. They have organised hundreds of memorable Silk Road tours and since 2000 they have been part of the Women … [Read more...]
Travel to Italy with NZ Guides – Lyn and Chris
The Gables is a guest house on the Banks Peninsula near Christchurch. For many years Chris and Lyn have welcomed people to this fabulous historic house. Previously they owned a leading Christchurch restaurant, they bring a sense of pure joy to the culinary arts, and they have for 12 years been leading TOURS IN TUSCANY, PUGLIA and PIEDMONT as well as running "The … [Read more...]