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Family Travel

On a Road Trip Through Oman, Navigating Grief and Parenthood

Following the death of her father, Ashlea Halpern brings her toddler son to the Middle East, determined to instill in him her most treasured life skill - a love of travel
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April 2024 Horoscope: Traveling During the Most Intense Month of the Year

Professional astrologer Steph Koyfman reads your monthly horoscope—and spells out how it may shape your travels.

Features & Essays

Destinations

The Long Spanish Goodbye

There's a tenderness in traveling with someone you just broke up with, as writer Sophie Mancini learns on a month-long trip through Spain.
Food & Drink

The Woman Chefs Taking Bahraini Flavors to the World

Bahraini food is having a moment, driven by a pioneering band of woman chefs.
Inspiration

Chef Ravinder Bhogal on Fresh Vegetables, Intuitive Cooking, and the Lasting Influence of Matriarchs

Her newly published cookbook ‘Comfort and Joy’ is a love letter to the home kitchen, and an appreciation of the journey that our food takes to make it to our tables.
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In a Year of Record Hospitality Strikes, Women Workers Have Taken the Lead

Women hospitality workers bore the brunt of the pandemic's impact on the industry—and now, they're at the forefront of efforts for better pay and benefits.
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My Grandmother Loved Travel and Fashion—She Showed Me That Both Meant Freedom

In her new memoir, Lyn Slater, also known as the Accidental Icon on Instagram, reflects on her glamorous grandmother's choice to pursue a life of travel.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: How Plants Help Us Understand Our Heritage

From cherry blossoms to seaweed to tea.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: An Astrologer Predicts Our Travel Plans

Resident astrologer Steph Koyfman reads Lale's charts, as well as those of three listeners.
Shopping

Women Who Travel Book Club: 14 New Books to Add to Your Spring Reading List

Our editors and contributors share their favorite new titles.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: Bear Encounters in Nevada and Chasing Poachers on the Masai Mara

Host Lale Arikoglu chats with wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn Grant about her adventures and why everyone should have access to the great outdoors.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman's Record-Breaking Flights

Dorothy Cochrane, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum in D.C., joins Lale to talk about the pioneering pilots.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: Love, Loss, and Noodles in Cambodia

The trio behind a new cookbook that intertwines a refugee story with family recipes sit down with Lale to chat about 1960s Battamburg, staying connected to home, and more.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: Celebrating the Most Powerful Women in Travel

Host Lale Arikoglu sits down with fellow editor Megan Spurrell to break down building the 2024 Women Who Travel Power List.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: Director Lulu Wang Isn't Compromising

Host Lale Arikoglu chats with Wang about creating the worlds of her works, traveling lots, and more.
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The Women Who Travel Power List 2024

In celebration of International Women's Day, we're spotlighting 15 leaders in design, activism, food, storytelling, and pop culture who are pushing us forward—with an introduction by 2023 alumna, Katalina Mayorga, on what it means to build a more representative future.
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Lyn Slater, the ‘Accidental Icon,’ on Her Journey to Reinvention

The content creator and author, whose new memoir is out March 20, is done being an influencer.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: On the Road for the US Election

Host Lale Arikoglu chats with three foreign reporters about observing American life on the campaign trail.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: Using 'The Odyssey' as an Island Hopping Guidebook

Host Lale Arikoglu chats with author Laura Coffey about how Homer inspired her travels, as well as her upcoming book.
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In Phnom Penh, Slurping Noodles and Tasting Home Again

An excerpt from author and cook Chantha Nguon's memoir recounts her first trip home to Cambodia after fleeing as a refugee—and the dish that made her feel at home once again.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: More Solo Travel With Jessica Nabongo

Host Lale Arikoglu checks back in with the writer and professional traveler to find out where she's going this year.
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Women Who Travel Podcast: Your Love and Travel Stories

Listeners share their tales of breakups, hookups, and more in honor of Valentine’s Day.