HERNIQNESS/travel-Africa-rag

# WanderWithNicole — AI Travel Assistant > Your AI travel bestie for Kenya & East Africa. Helps you experience East Africa stress free, especially when it comes to avoiding scams and getting robbed which can tank your vacation experience in general. > Guiding thought for me was what would I want from an assistant if I was to travel to a whole new area, and I came up with the kind of data that would help build that. Below is a little more about what went into it and how you can also follow the same to build your own assistant. > Built by **Nicole Onyango** · Powered by Groq AI & FastAPI **Live demo:** wanderwithnicole-mr4y.onren… ## What it does WanderWithNicole is a RAG-powered travel assistant that helps you discover hotels, plan trips, navigate cities and avoid scams across Kenya and East Africa. Ask it anything: - *"Best luxury safari lodges in Maasai Mara"* - *"How do I get around Nairobi safely?"* - *"Plan me 5 days in Zanzibar on a mid-range budget"* - *"What scams should I watch out for in Diani?"* --- ## Tech stack | Layer | Tool | |-------|------| | Backend | FastAPI + Python | | AI | Groq (LLaMA 3.3 70B) | | Search | Keyword search over embedded CSV data | | Frontend | HTML + CSS + Vanilla JS | | Deployment | Render | --- ## Data 95+ hotels, 25 attractions, 29 transport options, 20 scam warnings and 18 malls across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar — all stored as structured CSV files in `data/`. --- ## Run locally ```bash git clone github.com cd travel-Africa-rag python -m venv venv source venv/Scripts/activate # Windows pip install -r requirements.txt cp .env.example .env # add your GROQ_API_KEY uvicorn app.main:app --reload ``` Open `localhost` --- ## Project structure travel-africa-rag/ ├── app/ │ ├── main.py # FastAPI backend │ ├── templates/ # HTML frontend │ └── static/ # CSS ├── data/ │ ├── raw/ # Source CSVs │ └── cleaned/ # Processed CSVs ├── noteb …