Solo travel for women | Women’s adventure travel | Fall trips for women
We’re at the halfway mark of 2026.
Six months in, six to go — and somewhere in there, will adventure be in the mix?
Fall is a great time to travel. The crowds have thinned. The temperatures are dialled in. The landscapes are doing something extraordinary — amber and rust in the mountain passes, softer light on ancient ruins, mist rolling through rice terraces at dawn. It’s the best-kept secret in adventure travel, and we’ve spent 35+ years getting to know exactly where to be when it hits.
You don’t need a travel partner to say yes to any of it. Come solo. You’ll be surrounded by a small group of like-minded women who love the world the same way you do — curious, and just as excited as you are about exploring.
You’ve been thinking about it all year. Here are the 10 fall trips worth finally saying yes to.
1. Camino de Santiago Hiking Adventure — Spain
Some trails are just trails. The Camino de Santiago is a pilgrimage.
You’ll walk the final 67 miles (108 km) of this legendary UNESCO pilgrimage route through Spain’s lush northwest — eucalyptus-scented forests, medieval stone villages, and farmhouses that look like they belong in a fairy tale.
A support vehicle has your back if your legs need a break.
By the time you walk into the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral Square with your Wild Women crew, something will have shifted. Women have cried here — happy, proud, undone-in-the-best-way tears. You probably will too.
Fall departures run September through October — arguably the most golden stretch on The Way.
Perfect for: Women who want a walking pilgrimage that’s as soulful as it is physical.
2. Japan Pilgrimage Trail — Kumano Kodo
Japan in the fall is a fever dream of crimson maples and cedar forests that seem to breathe.
Our Japan Pilgrimage is a 10-day journey. You’ll walk sections of the ancient Kumano Kodo — a UNESCO World Heritage pilgrimage route that has been drawing seekers into the mountains of the Kii Peninsula for over a thousand years. You’ll walk with female yamabushi (mountain ascetics), soak in onsens that feel like they were built specifically for tired, happy legs, and sleep in tatami rooms where the quiet is its own kind of luxury.
This is a spiritual suspension into a Japan most tourists never find.
Perfect for: Women drawn to ancient paths, deep culture, and the kind of quiet that actually resets you.
3. Bali Explorer — Indonesia
Our Bali Explorer is your reset.
You’ll cycle through rice terraces in Sidemen, snorkel the coral gardens of West Bali National Park (think hawksbill turtles and clownfish in colours you didn’t think existed), and climb the volcanic slopes of Mount Batur at pre-dawn if you want a sunrise that will make your chest ache in the best way. Between the active adventures, there’s time to breathe — a Balinese blessing ceremony, a cooking class, the particular kind of stillness that only comes from being somewhere completely different from your regular life.
Bali has a way of cracking you open gently. You’ll leave fuller than when you arrived.
Perfect for: Women who want adventure and soul — not one or the other.
4. Morocco — North Africa
The Sahara. The High Atlas. The ancient medinas of Marrakech and Fez. A camel ride at sunset in the world’s largest hot desert with drumbeats echoing across the dunes.
This is Morocco at full volume — and it is glorious.
You’ll cycle through palm oases, explore the Route of 1,000 Kasbahs, wander souks where the air smells of saffron and cedar, and sleep under more stars than you’ve ever seen at once. The Ultimate Morocco itinerary doesn’t skim the surface of this country — it goes deep into its colour, complexity, and soul.
Fall is ideal for Morocco. The summer heat has eased. The light is extraordinary. And somehow, this ancient country feels even more like itself. We have two itineraries
Southern Morocco and Ultimate Morocco.
Perfect for: Women who want full cultural immersion and an adventure that engages every single sense.
5. Northern Thailand Active Adventure
Our Northern Thailand Active Adventure, which runs in the cool season, is a different creature entirely from its humid summer self, and it is spectacular.
You’ll spend time with elephants at an ethical sanctuary (watching their family bonds and intelligence will rewire something in you). You’ll take a cooking class with a local woman who shares her grandmother’s recipes and her philosophy on life in equal measure. You’ll trek through mountain villages and northern hill country, where the trails wind through teak forests and rice fields stitched into hillsides.
Thailand has this way of being joyful and profound at the same time. You feel it everywhere — in the temple bells, the morning markets, the warmth of the people who invite you in.
Perfect for: Women who want active adventure wrapped in warmth and cultural depth
6. Ultimate Egypt — North Africa
The pyramids at Giza. The Valley of the Kings. The Sphinx. The temples of Luxor lit golden in the late afternoon sun.
Some things are on your list for a reason.
The Ultimate Egypt itinerary doesn’t rush you through history — it gives you time to feel it. You’ll sail the Nile on a traditional felucca, explore Karnak Temple with a guide who makes 3,500 years feel immediate, and walk through markets where the spice stalls are stacked to the ceiling in shades of turmeric and paprika.
Fall is one of the best times to be in Egypt. The temperatures are humane, the sites are less crowded, and the light on the stone is something a camera barely does justice to.
Perfect for: Women who’ve always known they needed to see Egypt — and are finally ready to go.
7. Bhutan Hiking Adventure — Bhutan
Bhutan doesn’t let just anyone in. That’s kind of the point.
This Himalayan kingdom — one of the happiest countries on earth, they say, and you’ll feel why — is experienced on foot. On our Bhutan Hiking Adventure, you’ll hike through fragrant blue pine and juniper forests to mountain temples, and spend the night at the extraordinary Zhiwa Ling Lodge — a National Geographic Unique Lodge of the World — with Tiger’s Nest Temple rising on the cliff face outside your window.
The hikes here are real. Steady elevation, altitude to respect, terrain that demands something of you. But what you get in return? Indescribable.
Bhutan in October is peak season for a reason. The skies clear. The Himalayas reveal themselves. The forests are a riot of colour.
Perfect for: Women ready for a serious hiking adventure with serious spiritual depth.
8. Costa Rica Explorer — Pura Vida
There’s a philosophy in Costa Rica called pura vida — pure life. It’s not a slogan. It’s how people actually live there.
On our Costa Rica Explorer, we’ll visit the Osa Peninsula, where this trip is anchored, which is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. Sloths in the canopy. Scarlet macaws painting the sky. Pacific waves crashing on volcanic black sand. Rainforest so alive it practically hums.
Fall is Costa Rica’s dry season shoulder — warm, lush, and dramatically beautiful. You’ll hike hidden waterfall trails, kayak through mangroves, and somewhere between the morning yoga overlooking the ocean and a quiet evening listening to howler monkeys, you’ll realize you’ve exhaled somewhere along the way.
This trip is active and relaxing. Adventure, but with grace.
Perfect for: Women who want nature immersion with sustainable, slow travel at its heart.
9. Galápagos Islands Active Adventure — Ecuador
The Galápagos doesn’t care how impressive you are. The blue-footed boobies will walk right past you. The sea lions will steal your swim spot. The marine iguanas will ignore you entirely.
Our Galápagos Islands Active Adventure is absolute magic.
Wildlife that evolved without natural predators means wildlife that has no fear of you — which means encounters so close and so real you’ll question whether you’re dreaming. Darwin’s finches. Galápagos penguins. Giant tortoises moving through the landscape like they own it (they do). Snorkelling with sea lions in waters so clear you forget to breathe.
This is one of those places that permanently rewires how you see the natural world. You’ll come home a different kind of paying attention.
Perfect for: Wildlife lovers, nature nerds, and anyone who needs to be reminded how extraordinary this planet is.
10. Northern Vietnam Hiking Adventure — Southeast Asia
Northern Vietnam in the fall —you need to experience this.
You’ll hike terraced rice fields that drop in layers from the mountain peaks of Sapa — and in October and November, those terraces turn gold at harvest. Actual, luminous, stop-you-in-your-tracks gold. You’ll trek through hill tribe villages where women weave on looms outside their homes, navigate limestone karst landscapes that rise out of morning fog like something from a dream, and cruise the emerald waters of Ha Long Bay on a traditional junk boat.
Our Northern Vietnam Explorer moves at a pace that teaches you things. It’s vivid and tender and alive.
Perfect for: Women who want dramatic landscapes, cultural richness, and trails that feel genuinely off the beaten track.
The Thing About Going Solo
Here’s what women tell us, over and over, after they’ve done it.
“I can’t believe I waited so long.”
Coming solo to a Wild Women trip is one of the easiest, most energizing decisions you’ll make. You show up. You meet your group — small, intentional, made up of women who chose the same destination you did, which means you already have something significant in common. Within 48 hours, you have trail sisters.
Women in their 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond make up the heart of our community. Women who are done waiting for the right moment, the right partner, the right alignment of the calendar. Women who are choosing themselves — their curiosity, their bodies, their sense of adventure.
Our guides are women too. Local experts who know the land like the back of their hand and lead with heart, and a whole lot of insider knowledge. You’re never just being escorted somewhere. You’re being genuinely introduced to a place.
Fall Adventures For Women: The Window is now
These 10 fall adventures for women will fill up — and they fill up fast. Small groups mean real connection, which also means a limited number of spots.
Wild Women Expeditions has been taking women to the edges of the world for 35+ years. Women-only travel. Women guides.
