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10 Black Travel Bloggers to Inspire Your Next Trip

10 Black Travel Bloggers to Inspire Your Next Trip

06/19/2020
People, Top 10
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As a digital publication with over 300,000 followers, Travelettes prides itself on being the traveling big sister for young women around the world. Offering guidance before, during, and after trips, as well as personal anecdotes from experiences we've encountered first-hand, our content is varied and very often personal. The incredible support of the Trav[...]
What it's like to be first black woman to travel to all of the countries in the world

What it's like to be first black woman to travel to all of the countries in the world

12/13/2019
People, Personal Stories, Solo Travel
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When it comes to travelling around the world, Jessica Nabongo has nailed. The 35-year-old has completed her two-and-a-half-year epic adventure of travelling to every UN-recognised country of the world (plus 2 non-member states), becoming the first black woman to do so. Travel is in the blood of the Detroit-born Ugandan-American, as she is the founder and CEO[...]
Meet the Cypriot entrepreneur reviving a traditional profession

Meet the Cypriot entrepreneur reviving a traditional profession

09/23/2019
Cyprus, People
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As I grow older, tradition and cultural identity are two things that I increasingly cherish and admire. I look out for them not only when I'm abroad, on a quest to unearth the tales of the world but also when I'm in an all-familiar setting, one I falsely think I know too well; home. Over the last decade, if I dare I say so, I've noticed societies express [...]
Remembering Rachel: Hippie in Heels

Remembering Rachel: Hippie in Heels

07/03/2019
Goa, Inspiration, People
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If you follow the travel blogging community, you will have found it hard to miss the awful news that Rachel Jones, author of the popular women's travel blog Hippie in Heels, recently passed away unexpectedly (May 2019.) Her free-spirited nature and long-running India-centric blog are incredibly well known within the worldwide travel community, and if you’v[...]
Ethical volunteering- Meet the skilled volunteer nurse swapping modern hospitals for rural operating rooms

Ethical volunteering- Meet the skilled volunteer nurse swapping modern hospitals for rural operating rooms

04/25/2019
People, Work & Travel
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The year is 2019 and the word ‘voluntourism’ is on every conscious traveler’s lips. The term refers to the growing phenomenon amongst the world’s traveling community. People packing up their bags and taking international flights to some of the world’s poorest countries to carry out volunteer work, often on assignments they’ve paid to be a [...]
Seize Your Adventure with Fran Turauskis

Seize Your Adventure with Fran Turauskis

10/16/2018
People, Personal Stories
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A few weeks ago, I contributed to an episode of my favourite travel podcast She Explores. The episode was all about female solo adventures and I shared my thoughts on hiking solo across Scotland and what being alone in the outdoors does to my mind and body. The episode featured many inspiring women, who sought the outdoors and adventure - one of them was Fra[...]
Travel with Nashipae: Meet the inspiring woman who quit her job and moved to Kenya

Travel with Nashipae: Meet the inspiring woman who quit her job and moved to Kenya

07/02/2018
Inspiration, Kenya, People, Work & Travel
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Sometimes you come across stories of people completely outside of your online and offlice bubble and it just hits you. Something they say, something they stand for just moves you in a way you're not moved that often. When Sinja's story - which you will read below - popped up on our Facebook feeds, we knew we had to introduce her to you guys. She quit her job[...]
Abled traveler with a disability: Interview with Min. Annie Bell

Abled traveler with a disability: Interview with Min. Annie Bell

05/28/2018
People
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There was something about Annie that immediately caught my interest - maybe it was the fact that she called herself an abled traveler with a disability. Or maybe it was seeing the photo of her zooming across a beach in a motorised scooter - having adventures even though she might not be the first person that comes to mind when you'd think about an adventure [...]
Meet the Travelettes: A life and travel update

Meet the Travelettes: A life and travel update

05/19/2018
Inspiration, People
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When your team is scattered all over the planet like the Travelettes are, it's sometimes a little hard to keep each other in the loop about current projects and life in general. So when I recently started messaging the girls for a life update, I thought why not let you guys take part in it, too. The seven of us are always on the run as you'll see, but I was [...]

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