Traveling Solo, 5th: Advice and Ideas for More than 250 Great Vacations
The ultimate guide to traveling alone, Traveling Solo offers advice and ideas for more than 250 trips for solo travelers, including suggested vacations as varied as the ages, budgets, tastes, and interests of millions of singles.
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Traveling Solo is the ultimate guide to traveling alone. It introduces the unique pleasures of solo travel. Readers can tailor a vacation to their individual tastes, energies, and timetable; go wherever they wish; do exactly what they want to do; and meet fascinating people of all ages and all walks of life along the way. Award-winning author Eleanor Berman offers ideas and advice for more than 250 trips for solo travelers--each as varied as the ages, budgets, tastes, and interests of millions of singles. This book provides all the pertinent information on a wide range of vacation options, including:>Approximate costs>Common age ranges of participants>Percentage of people traveling alone>Typical male/female ratio>Candid comments from former trip participantsThis guide helps solo travelers choose and plan for a trip that's just right. The author discusses European trips for music lovers, wine connoisseurs, and gourmet cooks; workshops in language, photography, and painting; a biking tour of Provence; a cruise in the fjords of Norway; wilderness expeditions in Alaska and Nepal; luxurious spas in the deserts of Arizona and the tropics of Mexico; and many more.In addition to specific vacation ideas, Eleanor Berman gives advice about how to travel safely and intelligently while alone, or as part of a group, or as a single parent with kids. The author also includes her favorite cities for traveling alone, giving descriptions and personal impressions of what it is like to be a solo vacationer in a major city.
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