Light brown floodwaters lap at the entrance to Vy’s, a restaurant, market and cooking school in Hoi An, in central Vietnam.
We will have to leave Vy’s by boat.
Light brown floodwaters lap at the entrance to Vy’s, a restaurant, market and cooking school in Hoi An, in central Vietnam.
We will have to leave Vy’s by boat.
“This is definitely an adventure,” says Cheryl, as we gingerly step into a wooden vessel festooned with silk lanterns and fake flowers.
Cheryl and I, along with 15 others, are on a Vietnam-focused trip with AdventureWomen, a pioneer in the rapidly expanding world of female-only travel. The US-based company has been running tours exclusively for women since 1982.

More recently, many of the big names in active travel – Intrepid, Backroads, Butterfield & Robinson – also launched trips solely for females. They are responding to women’s growing demand for small-group travel that promises safety and sisterhood.
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