Footprints… Where They Take Me!

How it make it easy.

- Kalpana M Naghnoor

The most liberating fact is that you step out of your comfort zone. Something most women will hesitate to do, and there are some leading ladies living the enviable life with wheels in their heels! How do they do it? How do they travel alone? Wow! These thoughts do cross our minds. Especially when secretively we nurture a dream too, to travel and see the world, the different cultures.

The group tours

The first trip, all alone? It need not be so lonely. There are group tours. Let’s examine how these come to the aid of women travelling alone. Cox & Kings, Thomas Cook, Makemytrip.com, Yatra.com and others have package tours. These are useful as they will give you the best possible budgeting that you are looking at, as they have the experience as well as a wide database of information dealing with hotels and guided tours across the globe. There are many factoring determiners which eventually bracket a good tour. The best of travel agencies too, are sometimes foxed by the prevailing vagaries of the altering circumstances of a trip and the necessitating a deviance from the itinerary. A seasoned traveller will know which authorities to approach and overcome the delays and detours, but for those women travelling alone, it could well be a challenge.

The surprise factors

Uncooperative agencies across the globe: