About Sola
An information source for women travelling alone in Southeast Asia, and an iPhone app that carries it with you.
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What it is
Sola covers 19 countries, 75 cities and 1,550 places to stay, weighted towards Southeast Asia. Every place has been read rather than listed: we go through the published reviews and the operator’s own information, and write down the parts that decide whether it works for someone arriving on her own.
It is deliberately a reference rather than a feed. There is nothing to scroll, no algorithm deciding what you see, and no requirement to post a question and wait for an answer.
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Who makes it
Sola was founded in 2025 and is built by Bokang Sibolla, its cofounder, operating as Bokang Sibolla Digital Pty Ltd, registered in South Africa. It is a small operation with no outside investment, which is worth saying because it explains both the pace and the absence of anyone with a reason to soften what we write about a property.
If something on this site is wrong, tell us and we will fix the page. team@solatravel.app
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How it pays for itself
Some links to a place to stay are affiliate links, which means we may earn a commission if you book through them. Those links are marked on the page. Nothing about a property’s write-up changes because of it: we do not accept payment for a listing, for a better position in a list, or for a more flattering read, and no property has ever been given a say in what appears here.
That distinction matters in this category. Directories aimed at women travellers commonly sell the listings they recommend. We do not.
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What we will not do
We do not promise you an outcome. You will not find the word “safe” used as a guarantee anywhere on this site, because it is not ours to give. We tell you what a reception desk does overnight, whether a street has people on it at 11pm and what a lock is like, and you decide.
We also do not run a companion-matching service and never will. Introducing strangers to each other for travel is a different business with a different duty of care, and it is not this one.