Solo Female Travelers is managed by a global team spread across four continents and our fantastic team of local female guides
We have a world to discover, and certainly cannot answer most of the questions posed by the community, which is why the strength of this group and website lies in the diversity, depth of experience and knowledge of our 300,000+ members.
About our Co-Founders
Solo Female Travelers was co-founded and continues to be led by Mar Pages and Meg Jerrard.
Mar Pages
Countries visited: 135
Countries visited solo: 60+
Top 3 favorite destinations: Bhutan, Pacific islands and east Africa
Mar is a Catalan ex- strategy consultant and Googler turned online entrepreneur.
After a 15 ear career in the corporate world, she started Once in a Lifetime Journey, a luxury and out of the ordinary travel blog that specialises in exclusive hotels, unique destinations and the least visited countries in 2014.
Passionate about female empowerment and the travel industry, Mar can’t sit still; she is a long-term expat who has lived in 8 countries, worked in over 40 and visited more than 115 countries, and is on a quest to visit them all.
When she is not hanging out in the community or curating a new itinerary for our women-only tours, you will find her traveling solo to unknown destinations that are hard to find on a map.
Meg Jerrard
Countries visited: 105
Countries visited solo: 53
Top 3 favorite destinations: Italy, Antarctica and Iceland
Meg is an Australian Journalist and founder and editor of Mapping Megan, a niche adventure travel blog with a focus on cultural immersion, authentic discovery and incredible journeys. She visits off the beaten path destinations to cover corners of the globe which still remain relatively undiscovered.
Having visited 100+ countries across all seven continents, Megan has accumulated a wealth of knowledge about what the world has to offer. She started traveling solo at 18, and continues to take solo trips, despite now being married (she met her husband Mike on Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania).
A professional content creator, Meg’s travel writing has been widely published and acknowledged by publications such as National Geographic, the New York Times, Forbes, and British Airways High Life.
Meet the SFT Team
Our Solo Female Travelers team is remote and globally distributed.
About Jacobo
Jacobo is a software developer and IT professional, with a passion for travel and for building a better world through impact and legacy.
In his career, he has focused on education, both as a teacher and as a software developer for teachers and students.
In his spare time, he leads Spain’s most important competitive programming organization and co-founded Spain’s girls’ programming olympiad, a dedication that was once highlighted by the country’s president himself.
Jacobo is the brain behind our Solo Female Travel Safety Index and our member’s portal.
About Stella
Stella is a Greek travel enthusiast who has worked in the tourism sector most of her adult life either as a Sales and Events Manager in travel agencies and hotels, Writer or a Cruise Coordinator and Tour Leader.
She started travelling solo for work as it was a childhood dream to combine work and travel. She has worked in 7 different countries, cannot stand still and is always looking for a new adventure.
Being completely biased, her favourite country will always be Greece but she has a full list of favourite places she’s already visited such as India, Holland and Portugal and others that she is soon planning on visiting. She met her Cuban husband while visiting the Caribbean island.
Meet The Guides
Our trips are led by our all-female team of local guides who are the heart of SFT Tours.
Between Glory, who was one of the first female mountain guides on Kilimanjaro (and remains one of the very few), Mariam who is taking the lead as one of the few Berber guides in Morocco, and the rest of our great female guides, these superstar women are what make our trips so special.
About Glory
Glory Thobias Salema is one of the very few female guides in Tanzania and was recognised as the Best Female Guide by Tanzania National Park Authority (TANAPA) in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and received awards from Mr. Kigwangala, Tanzania’s Minister of Tourism and Natural Resources.
Glory can not only take you on safari but also to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro being one of only 6 female guides (out of over 2,500).
She is passionate about empowering women and girls in tourism and founded the Tanzania Women Guides Foundation, an NGO focused on connecting women to opportunities in tourism so the future generations are more gender balanced.
About Diba
Diba started her career in the hospitality industry in Karima at the Karima Rest House where she was previously selling clothes and souvenirs to guests.
She took English courses and learned more about customer management, then spent 6 months in Italy learning the language and started to guide guests in 2019.
Diba is currently the Camp Manager at Meroe Tented Camp and occasionally hosts groups across the country.
When leading our Solo Female Travelers Tour, Diba loves to share her culture with our guests by inviting them to her family’s home for coffee and henna which her mum designs.
About Ariadna
Ariadna who is both a Barcelona, Girona and Catalonia certified guide and has been working in the tourism sector for more than 15 years guiding visitors from all over the world. She is interested in art, history and culture and passionate about traveling.
She loves learning and her job allows her to travel through the eyes of the visitor, from whom she learns new things every day.
Luckily, Ariadna’s experience and licenses allows her to guide inside museums and monuments and she is extremely knowledgeable on all things Barcelona, Girona, Costa Brava or Montserrat.
If you want to meet her virtually, she hosted our live tours of Barcelona where you can hear her share her knowledge of La Sagrada Familia and Hospital de Sant Pau i de la Santa Creu.
About Yummet
Yummet is a former English teacher turned guide who is passionate about her country and about female empowerment.
She got her English teacher degree in 2011 and her master’s degree in Educational Leadership given by the Loyola University of Chicago in 2011. After 15 years teaching, attracted by the aviation world, she took a job at the international airport Jose Marti and in 2014 she became a guide attracted by the financial prospects and the opportunities to meet new cultures. She confesses to being more curious about the world out of Cuba after travelling to other countries.
This is the new Yummet now: a successful woman, a mother of an 11-year-old boy and a wife. A female trying to stand up in a very competitive profession that turns twice as difficult in a context where men are more benefitted. A female leader with the intention of making female clients feel comfortable in Cuba, learn a bit about the Cuban culture, and see what the books can’t show. Hope to meet you soon!
About Stella
Stella is Greek, born and raised in Athens, and has been working as a Cruise Coordinator for almost 8 years in the Greek Islands, Cabo Verde, Senegal, the Canary Islands, Turkey, the Balkans and hopefully soon, in Tahiti. Prior to becoming a cruise coordinator, Stella was a travel writer, a wedding planner and an event manager.
During our cruises, she takes care of all the excursions, activities and entertainment on board and will make sure everything runs smoothly and everyone is having a good time with her friendliness and sense of humor.
You never have to remember anything because Stella will be there there to remind you of anything important. Her knowledge of the best places to eat, drink and have fun on the islands is unparalleled.
What she loves most about her current job is to travel and interact with different people from different places. She feels rich in experiences and happy with the knowledge she has acquired and the people she has met and can’t wait to meet you all and show you around her beautiful Greece!
About Mariam
Mariam Youhad is a young Berber guide hailing from the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
She has been guiding guests since 2018 and is proud to be one of only 10 female mountain leaders in Morocco.
Mariam enjoys cooking, meeting new people and learning about new cultures as she introduces her beautiful country and culture to travellers from abroad.
She studied Business Management at the Institute of Training in Administration and Commerce (IFAC) and got her Tour Guide degree from the Ministry of Tourism.
Mariam is currently studying English at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech where she plans to receive her masters and doctorate in English literature.
About Sigga
Sigga lived for some years in the UK and The Netherlands where she studied and later worked in research as a molecular biologist.
When she returned back to Reykjavik, she completed a degree in Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences and developed and launched a healthy and environmentally friendly berry juice containing whey and wild herbs under the product name “Islandus“.
In 2016 she launched her own tour company focused on culture and food and began her official guiding career. However, she has been a tour guide for more than 20 years and has extensive knowledge of travelling in Iceland, especially off-road and to the less explored parts of the country.
She always feels privileged to show guests the great natural beauty Iceland has to offer and to give an insight into the life and culture of Icelandic people.
About Alison
Alison brings 18+ years of experience to the travel industry, and 25 years living in Italy where she first moved to as a student.
She began her career in-house at Massimo Ferragamo’s Castiglion del Bosco private estate and Brunello di Montalcino vineyard in Tuscany and has since collaborated with luxury brands across the world including Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts and Taj Hotels Palaces Resorts Safaris.
She is also a yoga teacher and has completed advanced studies in the intersection of Yoga, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Psychology, Movement Studies, and Contemplative Practice.
About Laura
As a dual citizen of Italy and the U.S., Laura has lived on the Amalfi Coast for over 15 years.
She’s a writer, art historian, and photographer and is passionate about sharing an insider’s view of this beautiful area to help travelers discover and enjoy the most beautiful experiences on the Amalfi Coast.
Laura has authored several guidebooks of the Amalfi Coast as well as Naples and Pompeii, and is a regular contributor to various travel publications.
Her love of sharing the beauty and richness of Italy extends to her group guiding where she gives guests a local experience with insider knowledge of the area
About Erica
Erica Firpo is an experienced travel and lifestyle journalist, and podcaster based in Rome who has also lived in Venice.
Italian and American, Erica gets to the heart of culture in Ciao Bella (ciaobella.co) and contributes her knowledge to the Washington Post, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, BBC Travel, The Guardian, Fathom, and more.
She’s authored over a dozen travel books including Fodor’s, Insight Guides and Lonely Planet, thanks to two decades of deep dive journalism and travel consulting experience.
Erica knows the ins and outs of Italian culture, cuisine and hospitality – from off-beat adventures to luxury stays in 20 regions of Italy, as well as the Southern Mediterranean.
About Nika
Nika was bitten by a travel bug from a young age when her mother, who worked in the travel industry, took her on “girls only” trips. She continued exploring on her own in her late teens and has so far been to around 50 countries on 5 continents.
She has lived and worked in the USA and Italy and has always had jobs which involved traveling or working from different locations . Six years ago Nika decided to become her own boss and focus primarily on the travel industry.
Since then, she’s worked as a freelance guide for a couple of international companies and created many custom made tours and retreats.
There is nothing more powerful than travel – the knowledge and the skills you get after each trip become part of you so you continually upgrade and discover new layers of yourself.
About Eman
Eman will be your Egyptologist and host in Egypt and will show you all the best parts of this beautiful country.
Born and raised in Cairo, Eman has two university degrees in tourism and more than 20 years guiding visitors through Egypt, including US President Bill Clinton whom she showed around the Giza Pyramids and the King of Morocco.
She has also worked with some of the worlds most renowned Egyptologists and lectured at the University of Pennsylvania and at the oriental Institute of Chicago University.
Above all, Eman is passionate about female empowerment and excited to be a part of our Egyptian adventure.