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PHOTOS: Top 10 Trailblazing Women Travelers

Cheapflights | Posted 05.08.2012

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Cheapflights

In honor of International Women's Day, we're celebrating 10 of the top trailblazing women travelers.

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What Women Want: Single Sex Hotel Floors

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 12.14.2011

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Women may have fought long and hard for equality, but now hotels are returning to another era by offering floors exclusively for female guests, report...

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The Single Traveler

Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Traveling Alone, Boomer Travel, Baby Boomer Travel, Women Travelers, Retirement Travel, Traveling Solo, Women Travelling Alone, Solo Boomer Travel, Traveling Single Over 50, Retirement, Huff/Post50 News
Regina Fraser and Pat Johnson

The over 50 crowd in the U.S. is growing exponentially, and the singles who inhabit this universe announce that they are making themselves the citizens of the world that their parents never were.

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The Gender Gap in Travel: Myths and Revelations

New York Times | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Gender Differences, Tips-for-Women-Travelers, Female Travelers, Women Travelers, Women Travelling Alone, Women News

Readers often write in to remark that I am a man, a fact of which I am generally aware. But then they point out something that often slips my mind: my...

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From Devils to Zebras: Riccardo Orizio's Safari in Kenya

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saruni Camp, Riccardo Orizio, Zebras, Massai Mara, Safari, Kenya, Humans Versus Animals, Dictators, Maasai, Women Travelers, Talk of the Devil, Colobus Monkey, World News
Karin Badt

The politics of Africa is all about the elephant.

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Christmas in Cairo: A 48 Hour Story

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women Travelers, Egypt, Giza Pyramids, Travel, Children's Cancer, Cairo, Great Sphinx, Christmas, Inspiration, Loss of Children, Style News
Karin Badt

Surprisingly, neither of the two taxi drivers I asked to take me to the pyramids understood my destination -- despite the fact that I would think these large stone edifices are a mainstay of Cairo tourism.

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The King of Morocco and a Little Girl in Bombay (xvii)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Ganesh, King of Morocco, Streetchildren, Mumbai, Gordon House Hotel, Spirituality, Helsinki, Women Travelers, Taj Mahal, Healthy Living News
Karin Badt

The waiter was very concerned that I liked the food -- that it was not too spicy for me -- and he came and offered me, as a treat, a handful of three Chinese fortune cookies.

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A Clean Karma Bath in the Muck of the Ganges (xvi)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Pooja, Purification Exercise, India, Women Travelers, Varanasi, Spirituality, Ganges, Karma, Healthy Living News
Karin Badt

Only in India do people comment on the experience of getting there ("this was fresher," said Vivek) rather than the destination itself.

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Child Photography in Varanasi: Pooja with Puja (xiv)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Pooja, Picture-Taking, Varanasi, Sony Camera, Purification Ritual, Beautiful Little Girl, Children in India, International Adoption, Women Travelers, Orphans, Healthy Living News
Karin Badt

I sat on a curb in the dark, the sun not yet lifted, watching dozens and dozens of people sleeping on the concrete, some beginning to rise, the breeze fresh from the Ganges.

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Varanasi: The City of the Dead (xi)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women Travelers, Samsara, Primo Levi, India, Cremation, Death, Varanasi, Kieslowski, Ganges, Gangesview Hotel, Healthy Living News
Karin Badt

Varanasi, the holy city of the dead, is a blast of life. Right from the train station, the roads are dense in clanking bicycles, women in black veils...

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Taj Mahal and Love (x)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Oasis Excursions India, Relationships, Travel Tips, Women Travelers, Rickshaw Drivers, Agra Fort, India, Taj Mahal, Women Travelling Alone, Healthy Living News
Karin Badt

I enjoyed walking freely, by myself, along the long balustrade to the marble dome.

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Udaipur: No Lake Palace (ix)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Hypnotism, Travel Tips, Lake Palace, City Palace, Niwas Ravanas, Women Travelers, India, Sexism in India, Spirituality, Udaipur, Martine Kumar, Muslim and Hindu Relations, Krishna, Healthy Living News
Karin Badt

Arrival I have now been two days in Udaipur and have not yet even seen the site that most people come for: the floating Lake Palace, although I did ...

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