About Us

Premium trips for solo traveling women

Who is

SoFe Travel?

SoFe is the world’s largest community for women who travel solo, and our trips are where that community meets in real life.

 

We keep groups small so it feels like traveling with friends, not a tour bus. You’ll share private dinners, local homes, and places most visitors never see, with a roommate matched to your personality and plenty of time to do your own thing.

 

Most women arrive not knowing a soul. Almost all of them leave with couches to crash around the world.

Our mission is to create small group trips where women who travel solo can explore the world’s most extraordinary places and step into uncharted corners of the world, together.

 

Through hand-picked experiences, local connections, and doors most travelers never get through, we help women say yes to the things they’ve never done, celebrate each other along the way, and come home braver, fuller, and deeply connected to the friends they made.

Our Story

Our founder, Amanda Black, was sipping a cerveza around the corner when someone broke into her room in Mexico and stole everything. Everything except her dirty clothes.

 

Stranded with no money, no contacts, and hostel staff she didn’t trust, she vowed that no solo woman traveler should ever feel that alone. So she started building two things: a free online community where women who travel solo could find support, and small group trips where any woman could show up alone and leave with friends.

 

What she learned along the way

After leading 40+ trips across 25+ countries, Amanda noticed the moments women remembered years later weren’t the views. They were the people. The first camel ride. The first night on a boat. The first time they laughed so hard with a stranger that she stopped being one.

 

That idea became her TEDx talk on the power of shared firsts, and it’s why every SoFe trip is built around new experiences shared with people you’ll want to keep.

 

Since 2017, SoFe has grown into a community of 580,000+ women, and every woman is welcome on our trips. The mission hasn’t changed: every woman who dreams of solo travel should always feel encouraged,  supported and never alone.

Our symbol

Over the years, it became our logo, sure, but it started as a symbol for all solo female travelers. It’s on a lot of t-shirts, and more than a few wrists.

 

It starts with an ancient symbol for both Earth and woman: a triangle crossed by a horizontal line. We turned that line into an arrow, for the journey forward, and added a compass, for every place we’ll go next.

 

Fair warning: plenty of our travelers loved their trip so much they got it tattooed. You might be next.

Everything we do is about community

Making friends as an adult is hard enough. Getting them to commit to a trip that actually makes it past the group chat and onto a plane? Even harder.

 

So we built the community for you. Our Meetup Tours are small group trips for women who are done waiting on everyone else. Book solo, show up solo, and travel with women who said yes too. Local hosts, private experiences, and new friends by day two.

 

And the community doesn’t end when the trip does. Our free online group connects women who travel solo with safety tips, honest advice, and the things guidebooks leave out. Join before your trip, after it, or whenever you’re ready.