WanderFemme
Adventures
Be a traveler, not a tourist.
We are a women’s travel company specializing in small-group exploration and focusing on authentic, local experiences. Our trips curate the perfect mix of nature and adventure, amazing food and drink, and local history and art.
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page" St. Augustine
What Makes Us Special
Just right price
We are neither a luxury tour company nor a budget travel company. We offer that sweet spot right in the middle. The places we go feel luxurious without luxury pricing. Our accommodations are clean, simple, and attractive without being over the top. The restaurants we visit specialize in homemade cuisine with locally sourced ingredients. While we may see some tourist hotspots occasionally, our focus is more on the local history, art, and unique places that make us travelers, not tourists.
Just right size
Our groups are small, usually around eight women. This allows us the flexibility to travel, unencumbered, and to blend into our surroundings a bit. From our vantage point, we can see and experience the more authentic aspects of each locale. We get to know you as a traveler before and during the trip, partnering you with like-minded women travelers. Our trips are an opportunity to create lifetime friendships.
Just right balance
We believe in balance. Our trips build in some time to be a human being rather than just a human doing. Taking downtime to read, write, rest, meditate, walk, or explore on your own is as important as experiencing all the wondrous sites in our destinations. We will not be moving from place to place each night; rather, we have a home base for most of the week, from which we venture out to explore.
Our Adventures
Northern Italy Fall
October 11 - 20, 2024
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Our Northern Italy fall trip showcases the perfect mix of food, drink, art and adventure. Our "base camp" rests in the foothills of the Dolomites, from where we explore daily. We also spend two days in Venice, marveling at all this amazing floating city has to offer. The fall provides cooler weather and changing leaves in addition to the beauty that is always part of northern Italy.
Climbing on Kalymnos
Coming in 2025...
For this trip, we start or end in Athens, exploring one of the most iconic landmarks in the world, the Acropolis, a 5th century BC hilltop citadel as well as the ancient Parthenon. The bulk of the trip, however, takes place on the island of Kalymnos, one of Greece's most easterly islands, just off the coast of Turkey. While the focus of this trip is rock climbing (all levels welcome) we also take full advantage of the amazing locally sourced food and drink, the artisanal crafts, the Greek art and architecture and the natural beauty surrounding this Aegean paradise.
Northern Italy Spring
May 23 - June 1, 2025
Venturing to Northern Italy in the spring is a treat! It is exceptionally green in spring with wildflowers blooming everywhere! This trip showcases the perfect mix of food, drink, art and the outdoors. Our "base camp" is the foothills of the Dolomites, from where we explore. We also spend two days in Venice, marveling at all this floating city has to offer.
Tulum Beach Retreat
Coming soon...
Tulum is a magical place where ancient Mayan culture meets stunning and pristine white sand beaches. This trip combines unabashed relaxation with prehistoric ruins and self discovery through ceremonial sweat lodges, a traditional cenote sound bath, as well as yoga classes on the beach. We throw in a little bit of adventure by ziplining through the jungle canopy! We stay in a multi-acre wellness center, situated in a protected national marine park. For the gastronomically focused, you will enjoy the fresh and locally sourced Mayan-inspired dishes while listening to the surf with your feet nestled in the sand.
*Custom trips for groups available upon request.
Our Northern Italy Trip
Highlights
Feltre
Feltre is a medieval town perched on the precipice of the Alps. Our base camp will be Alla Casetta bed and breakfast, hidden in the forested foothills. This beautiful and cozy abode, nestled in a tree-laden valley, will act as our home base for the week. It is the perfect place to come back to each day for some rest and rejuvenation before a scrumptious dinner.
Prosecco Country
We spend one of our days hiking in a beautiful local canyon on our way to Valdobbiadene, which is the prosecco-making region of Italy. There we will rent bikes and take a tour of the region, stopping at some wineries and having a picnic lunch.
Venice
At the end of the trip, we spend two glorious days in the floating city of Venice. Rich in art, history, architecture, food and wine, Venice is one of the most unique places on the planet. You will have some freedom on these days to explore the many experiences that this ancient city has to offer. We'll meet up for dinner each night and enjoy excellent food and wine in al fresco restaurants along canals.
The Dolomites
We spend one of our days heading up into the heart of the Dolomites. This day you have a choice to do a via ferrata (a protected hike (with some rock scrambling moves and suspension bridge) up to the rifugio or take the gondola to the top. Either way you will be met with breathtaking 360 degree views of the surrounding mountains and a delicious Italian lunch.
Testimonials
Kimberley has that rare combination of being very fun AND very organized. Those are the perfect attributes for a travel guide. If you want to have a one-of-a-kind experience of Italy with a light-hearted, knowledgeable and experienced guide who has carefully curated every aspect of the trip, then sign up right now!
- Diane C.
Kimberley's organization and planning of our trip to Spain was perfect! Her sightseeing and accommodation choices made for a magical experience.
- Julie M.
Traveling in a group through Italy with Kimberley as our leader, in four words; adventurous, wondrous, delicious, and hilarious! We swam through slot canyons, climbed a Via Ferrata, biked Prosecco country, discovered magical hikes and majestic views. We indulged in cuisine from rustic Italian to fine dining. And through it all, laughter filled the air, the van, the dining table, the bnb, the Dolimiti!
- Cindy F.
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“Not all those who wander are lost.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
Meet your guide...
I grew up traveling in the US and doing a lot of camping with my family and on Girl Scout trips. Oh the days of waking up in the summers floating in our tents because of nonstop Pennsylvania rain! Even though I didn’t have access to world travel back then, I can look back and see my adventurous spirit as I begged my parents to let me and my friends sleep in the “fort” we made in the cornfield across from my house (this was pre- Freddy Krueger) or as I convinced my friends to climb up on top of our elementary school to hang out and play kickball on the roof. (getting up was ok but down was a little harder)
It wasn’t until I won a scholarship to do an exchange program in Colombia during high school that I developed my international “wanderlust” that has not waned in over 30 years! I’ve traveled all over many continents, sometimes with others and sometimes solo, and I’ve had countless adventures, planned and unplanned. In my younger years, I figured out quickly that the more cheaply I was able to travel, the longer I could make my trips last. I was the master of budget backpacker travel. I could make two pairs of underwear and one non-wrinkle dress last weeks! I could sniff out free food anywhere!
Long gone, though, are the days when I paid $5.00 for a room with plywood walls (which turned out to be a brothel) in Quito, slept on the ground on pieces of bamboo in Thailand to wake up to leeches all over my body or “hitched” a ride on a cargo plane in the Colombian jungle. Don’t ask.
These days I call myself a “medium maintenance” traveler. I fall somewhere between the budget travel of my youth and luxury travel. I enjoy the smaller luxuries when romping around the world these days, like a fire and a good book in the Alps or an engaging conversation with friends or strangers on a ferry in Greece or a cocktail on a veranda overlooking the Caribbean. I also fall somewhere between the “unplanned, go-with-the-flow, sleep anywhere I land” traveler and the “minute-by-minute, no time to pee itinerary follower” type. I’ve landed (no pun intended) on the idea that the best trips are planned but open and flexible. A friend of mine used to say “Hey, can we plan to be spontaneous next week?” That is how I travel. Planned room for spontaneity. We have to make room for adventure to come to us sometimes. And sometimes it comes in the least expected ways…
Can’t wait to have an adventure with you!
Kimberley
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