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Venus Adventures

Let’s face it: women just like to do different things, talk about different subjects, shop and have fun. Without the boys around, the girls can let their hair down, not worry about how they look or how good they are at something – quite simply, they can relax. That is why a women-only trip is chicken soup for the soul.

Trips just for women are nothing new – there are many different companies offering “adventure” or just hiking or biking trips. However there was, until now, a gap in the market for more mainstream holidays. Venus Adventures is a new company offering experiential holidays with the three main ingredients of these trips being culture, adventure and fun. And the destinations are also tantalizing – places like Morocco, Egypt, Vietnam, Tanzania or Ethiopia.

Venus Adventures was founded by modern-day nomad and adventure guide, Julie Paterson. “There is a different dynamic when you get a group of just women together. We have interesting conversations and a lot of fun. I have lived a very full life and I want to encourage other women to do the same, which is why I started this company. Life is not a dress rehearsal!”

Any age women a can go on these trips, although they do cater more to the over 40s age bracket. Why? Because these are women who have watched their children grow up and travel to exotic places, and now it is their turn to have some fun, but they don’t want to go alone.

Besides seeing all the usual great sights on a Venus Adventures trip, “fun women’s things” are built into the itineraries too – e.g. taking a cooking course in Vietnam, having a belly-dancing lesson in Egypt or indulging in a traditional style spa in Morocco. Janice, 63, went on the Morocco trip in April 2007: “I think about the trip a lot and find it hard to believe I did all that stuff…riding camels in the Sahara, rafting and hiking. It was highlight after highlight!”

The Venus Adventures motto sums it up: “Life is uncertain – eat cake!” So, come on girls, let’s go!

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Published 7th Jan 2008

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by Venus 22nd July 2008 This is a great company, I have travelled with them myself and they come highly recommended! It is not only fun visiting fascinating places in the company of other women, but you truly get to relax and be yourself - now when was the last time you did that?
by rose014 25th January 2011 i went on a Venus adventure tour to Morocco 2010 paid very good money and it was like a back packers trip the hotels where disgusting some of them I wouldn't put my dog in them I agree with the concept but please Julie do it better I did try and tell the owner who just dismissed me with a shrug with the other like it not good enough and i see the first comment above is written by the owner of the company that seems odd pretending to be a client try better venus good concept BUT
by flyingjulie 17th August 2011 It is quite obvious who posted this as we have only ever had one person (after more than 10 trips to Morocco) who gave bad feedback. All of the feedback received to date about the Morocco trips read like this, as one client from South Africa wrote: "Thanks to your careful planning and organizing skills my Moroccan experience exceeded all expectations. Your care and concern were remarkable. We flowed from place to place and situation to experience with such ease and I felt safe and secure in your hands. We stayed in everything from 5 star hotels to beautiful riads, to a night in the Sahara under the stars. Many thanks for an unforgettable time and looking forward to future trips with you." The Morocco trip kicks off with 2 nights in a 5 star hotel, and then we stay in clean and comfortable accommodation for the rest of the trip. Some places we visit are a bit out of the way, so we stay in the best option there (still clean and comfortable), ending up with a few nights in a beautiful upmarket riad in Marrakech. The writer of the above comment, rose014, failed to realise she was travelling in a developing country and failed to realise she was having a bit of adventure. How you can class the hotels as backpacker accommodation is beyond belief. You obviously are a high class backpacker! Also, Morocco is such an awesome trip that on our African Safari next year we already have 6 women off previous Morocco trips signed up - so what does that tell you? And several of them have been to other destinations with us after Morocco too, namely Vietnam, Egypt and Ethiopia. The problem doesn't lie with us.
by smgkiwi 6th September 2011 As the owner of Southern Exposure Tours, I work closely with Julie from Venus and have booked ladies on her Morocco trip previously. There has always been excellent feedback and I have no hesitations in recommending her tours.
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