Adventure Women

AdventureWomen is an eighteen-year-old business and its attractive site, filled with a lot of text and fun icons, sells its own extraordinarily exotic adventure trips for women. The trips are so interesting and well-planned that it is well worth the time to browse through the detailed descriptions that are available by email. Booking requests are by e-mail or telephone, and response times to queries are almost immediate. The site and the business are based in the US, but the holidays can be booked from anywhere in the world.


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Are you an AdventureWoman? is a good place to start. It summarises the AdventureWomen customer profile, and explores the meaning of the term adventure holiday. This in itself makes for entertaining reading!


Trips for 2000 links to details of the well-selected trips, which include Montana skiing clinics, riding in Ireland, sea kayaking in Mexico, windjammer sailing in the British Virgin Islands, hiking the Havasupai reservation in the Grand Canyon, mini-jaunts to the French Riviera, rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, and a boat tour of Burgundy. The site replies instantly to requests by sending an email including complete details of each trip, itinerary, costs, skills required, packing, and visas. This is a nice touch of efficiency and helps to keep the site working smoothly.


High Adventure Series links to the liveliest part of the site. Each year, Adventure Women organises three especially challenging trips in three categories of challenge: cultural, ecological and physical. For the year 2000, these were to Timbuktu, the Amazon River, and Alaska. This page scrolls down with enticing photos and descriptions of the three trips and also provides costs, dates and an email option for more details. The email response service is almost instantaneous. As an example of the high calibre of the trips and the service, the Timbuktu trip details include a well-written history of Mali and its people and geography. The odyssey across Mali offers an exploration of desert landscapes, a visit to the sandcastle city of Djenee, travel by pinase (riverboat) down the Niger River camping on the Niger river banks, studies and observation of the dance, ceremonies of the Dogon people, and riding camels to a nomadic Tuareg encampment. And there's much more.


Press Clippings combines a listing of accolades for and reviews of the site as well as some great articles by Adventure Women clients describing the actual trips. Again, good reading for insight into the type of adventures and clientele.