Solo travel in Southeast Asia, answered before you have to ask.
Sola reads the reviews, the guides and the ground detail for every city and every place to stay, then writes down what a woman travelling alone actually needs in order to decide. Nothing to post, nobody to wait for.
19 countries · 75 cities · 1,548 places to stay
Where you are going
Southeast Asia
Thailand77 provinces, from Bangkok to the Andaman coast
10 cities · from $35/day
Vietnam3,260 km coastline, 54 ethnic groups, 8 UNESCO sites
5 cities · from $30/day- Indonesia
17,508 islands across 3 time zones
3 cities · from $35/day 
Philippines7,641 islands, English-speaking, 3 main island groups
12 cities · from $35/day
Malaysia3 cultures, 2 coastlines, connected rail and bus networks
5 cities · from $40/day
Singapore733 km² city-state, 4 official languages, MRT-connected
1 cities · from $80/day
Cambodia181,035 km², Mekong River to Cardamom Mountains
4 cities · from $30/day- Laos
236,800 km², landlocked, Mekong River runs north to south
3 cities · from $25/day 
Myanmar676,578 km², over 2,000 Buddhist pagodas in Bagan alone
3 cities · from $30/day
Elsewhere
South Korea100,210 km², Korean Peninsula, 4 distinct seasons
2 cities- Taiwan
36,193 km² island, 268 mountain peaks above 3,000m
2 cities - Japan
377,975 km² archipelago, 6,852 islands, shinkansen network
3 cities 
Portugal92,212 km², 1,794 km Atlantic coastline, 17 UNESCO sites
2 cities
Morocco446,550 km², Atlas Mountains to Sahara, 9 UNESCO medinas
3 cities- South Africa
1.22M km², 3 coastlines, 11 official languages
6 cities 
Lesotho30,355 km² mountain kingdom, entirely above 1,000m
2 cities- Zimbabwe
390,757 km², Victoria Falls, Great Zimbabwe ruins
3 cities 
Namibia825,615 km², Skeleton Coast to Etosha, among lowest population densities on Earth
3 cities
Mozambique801,590 km², 2,470 km Indian Ocean coastline
3 cities
What kind of trip
Seven ways of reading the same index.
- A good first solo tripWhere going alone the first time asks the least of you
- Female-only staysDorms and properties that take women only
- Walkable after darkCities with lit streets, short distances and people about at night
- Somewhere to slow downQuiet places to stop moving for a while
- Easy to get aroundTransport that works without local knowledge
- Where solo women already goPlaces with an established solo community, so meeting people costs nothing
- Wellness and retreatYoga, spa and meditation destinations
How this is made
Every place here has been read rather than listed. We take the published reviews, the operator’s own information and the ground detail of the street it sits on, and we write down the parts that decide whether it works for a woman on her own.
We say where each read came from, on every page. Where the reviews do not record who wrote them, we say that too, rather than implying a voice the source does not carry.
The app
Everything here, in your pocket, offline.
The website is the whole library and it is free to read. The app is for when you are actually going: save places, keep them offline, and build the trip.