Est.
2026
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Founder
A guidebook
for the rest of us.
In 2017, I did something that felt a little unhinged.
I had moved from Kolkata to Delhi with a plan. For six months I tried to find someone to travel with. Friends were busy. Schedules never aligned. So one evening, tired of waiting, I walked to the bus stop and bought a ticket to Rishikesh. Alone. With no plan. I had never done anything like that in my life.
I grew up shy, introverted, quietly terrified of doing most things by myself. That first trip cracked something open. So I kept going — 20 countries, most of India, alone every time. The one that changed everything was a 30-day DIY backpacking trip across Europe on a shoestring.
I stepped off the plane in Paris genuinely nervous. On the last day, I sat in Rome and cried — not because I was scared or lonely, but because I was so full. Because I had done something I once thought was only for other kinds of women.
Here's what I noticed travelling through all those countries: women elsewhere move through the world differently. Not because it's safer — but because they were taught the world was theirs.
Indian women were not taught that.
And yet, whenever I came home, younger women would hear my stories and lean forward. “How did you manage alone?” “What did your parents say?” “Can I actually do that?” The answer was always yes. But I also knew the real landscape — which streets of Paris you leave before a certain hour, the taxi traps at Goa's airport, the hostel with the broken lock in Kasol. Seven years of hard-won knowledge, living only in my head or in DMs passed hand to hand.
That knowledge was going nowhere useful.
Solo travel by women has grown 153% in recent years. The woman who wants to go is already here. She just doesn't have what she needs to go — or to go without spending the first three days in low-level survival mode.
Wander Women is the trip intelligence layer solo women have always deserved. Real intel from real women who were just there. A Beware Board. Honest spend breakdowns. A community built for her specific situation — not the Western backpacker, not the package tourist. Her.
I built this because I was once the girl who waited six months for someone to go with her — and then went anyway and never looked back.
I know how many women are still waiting.
Prerna Agarwal — Founder, Wander Women
Solo traveller. 20 countries. 9 years. Still going.
@prernaatravels →“The internet was built for the average traveller. We're building for the rest of us.”
Trip intel
as it actually is.
Wander Women is a women-only solo travel intelligence platform. We don't write listicles. We don't take press trips. The intel here comes from women who actually live these routes — the auto-rickshaw scams, the women-run guesthouses, the lanes you walk after dark and the lanes you don't.
Built from a notebook,
not a press kit.
The intel that kept me safe — the auto-driver patterns, the women-only PG networks, the late-night reroutes — was buried in old TripAdvisor threads and women-only Facebook groups. That is not a system. So we built one.
01
Real intel.
If we haven't been there, we don't write it. If a contributor hasn't lived a route, she doesn't claim it. Every card is verified by women who travelled it solo.
02
Women only.
From the contributor pool to buddy matching to community threads — every voice you read here is a woman's. No filler, no press trips, no men's takes on women's safety.
03
No sponsorships.
We've never accepted a sponsored stay or a paid restaurant placement. Our intel doesn't have a brand to keep happy — only the women using it.