The city of the future encircled by beautiful rainforest treks, and lesser known islands. Seek Sophie was founded by a couple of solo travellers to solve a problem that kept cropping up in our travels. One of us went to the Galapagos a few years ago. Before our trip, other travellers told us that boat trips sold online were overpriced, and that we should book only when we arrived in Ecuador. While playing cards on the boat, in between snorkelling trips, we found out how true that was. Those of us who didn’t have much time in Ecuador had booked online - and paid almost twice as much as those who booked on-the-ground! This happened again with a safari in Uganda, and again with a trek in Indonesia. We got frustrated and wondered why the majority of local tourism operators were still offline. Why didn’t anyone bring these tourism operators online so that travellers could benefit from better prices and these local operators could grow their business?
