This Gypsy Gal goes Nature Tripping
Text and photos by Prime Sarmiento I can’t believe that I woke up 6 am just for this. I can’t believe that after a looong night editing and closing pages, coming home by 2 am, and spending the next two hours watching YouTube videos, I still managed to shower and drag myself to a day tour...
A Solo Female Traveler’s Christmas Gift Guide
by: Prime Sarmiento If I can only give one tip when it comes to packing light, that tip will be to digitize everything. Thanks to Kindle (link) that my lil si gave me , my Ipod, my smartphone and my old trusty netbook, I managed to pack all the guidebooks, music, e-courses and meditation...
Female Travel Intelligence: Staying safe and happy while on the road
This is a guest post (Want to guest post in The Gypsygals? Please read this.) Whether you're on a business trip, or backpacking across Europe, traveling alone as a woman can feel intimidating at times. It doesn't help that some of your friends and family go out of their way to tell horror stories...
How to Travel Alone as a Woman: Travel Safety Tips (Part 1 of a 6-part series)
By Prime Sarmiento I’m celebrating this year’s International Women’s Day by launching a monthly series on how to travel alone as a woman. I made this decision after my exhaustive research (months spent lurking in online forums, reading numerous blog posts and comments, conducting surveys and reading e-mails sent to me by...
Safe and Solo in Europe: Travel Safety Tips
posted by: Nina Sarmiento It is safe for women to travel alone through Europe. Key European cities such as Paris, London, Berlin,Vienna and Geneva are among the cities in the world that provide the best quality of living to its residents, according to the Mercer 2010 Quality of Living Survey. Cities included in this list...