Looking for a book-inspired travel experience with a group of like-minded women? Here`s where we`re headed next:

🇬🇭October 9-17, 2025 BOOKED Trips Accra, Ghana (5 SPOTS LEFT!). Our Ghana experience is back by popular demand and we’re mixing it up with a few new experiences that you won’t want to miss in collaboration with Sorted Chale, a Ghanaian woman-owned company. 

🇲🇦November 2-11, 2025 BOOKED Trips Marrakech, Fes, and the Sahara desert, Morocco (SPOTS OPEN NEXT FRIDAY APRIL 25, 2025): A journey through Morocco inspired by "Dreams of Trespass" by Fatima Mernissi in partnership with Inclusive Morocco, a Moroccan-owned luxury travel company. 

🇨🇴December 4-8, 2025 BOOKED Trips Cartagena, Colombia (SPOTS OPEN MAY 30, 2025): inspired by “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Márquez. We`re partnering with IMPULSE Travel, a Colombian-owned, socially responsible travel company.

👉🏿 Learn more and fill out the trip interest forms at www.bookedtrips.com or at our link in bio.

“Women held the community together. “Wathint’Abafazi Wathint’imbokodo!” was the chant they would rally to during the freedom struggle. “When you strike a woman, you strike a rock.” - Trevor Noah, Born A Crime

We had the great pleasure of visiting various Black and Brown-owned wineries in Stellenbosch and the Franschhoek wine regions outside of Cape Town South Africa.

We had a wine tasting at @sevensisterswines, one of the first and few 100% POC-owned and managed wine farms in Stellenbosch. Established in 2009 by the Brutus Sisters, the vineyard represents their journey to reclaim their legacy and celebrate their bond. We were personally hosted by one of the sisters Vivian who leads the brand and talked about the struggles of being a Black woman in a white male dominated industry, losing her business 4 times but still being here 20 years later.

We also had a tasting at @klein_goederust , the first Black-owned winery in the Franschhoek wine region. The winery is inspired by the legacy of family matriarch Nomaroma Siguqa, who was a wine farm laborer for 37 years.

We had a five star lunch at @hari.kitchen , a Black-owned restaurant owned by Chef Nash, a sommelier turned chef. HIGHLY recommend during your next visit to the region.

A day in Black-owned Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦

Cape Town is notoriously known for being an overwhelmingly white city in a Black country, but thanks to our partners @girlstriptours and @curiocity.africa we were able to craft an experience that centers the Black, coloured, and indigenous history, culture, and entrepreneurship in the city.

We started the morning at the Castle of Good Hope getting an alternative history told through the lens of brown, Black, and indigenous people with our guides Lucy and Melissa. We grounded in our bodies and were introduced to native plants to reconnect us to the land.

We visited a monument to the many children harmed by slavery and its aftermath, read the names of the many people from across Africa and Asian who were kept at the Slave Lodge, passed the Parliament Buildings, learned about Archbishop Desmond Tutu`s legacy at St. George`s Cathedral which he oversaw and where his ashes lay, and visited the Apartheid Benches.

We ended at a monument to Krotoa who was a Khoisan linguist and diplomat in the early days of the Cape Colony. She was suspected of aiding her people with strategic information and advice, particularly during the first Khoe-Dutch war of 1659 – 60.

We had lunch at @sevencolours_eatery, a Black woman owned restaurant run by Chef Nolu Dube-Cele committed to sharing the South African food she grew up on.

We ended the evening with a 14-dish dinner at GOLD, a Black woman-owned establishment that took us on a journey along the spice route, from Uganda to Zanzibar. We experienced live djembe drumming, performances, and got the exclusive opportunity to go behind the scenes in the kitchen to make our own spice blend and meet the staff.