Traveling to the world as a solo female, many things happen unpredictable. I am nervous, fear for the first time. To avoid those and stay safe in traveling here’s some advice for solo female. Don’t trust someone easily and quickly because those strangers can put you in troubles.
The importance
Scan your driving license, passport, and email them to yourself and a friend or
family member. If you lose your passport, it makes getting a new one much easier.
Get your embassy contact wherever you been in case you can make a call to them asking
for helps. Always let someone know where you are going, when you expect to
arrive, and where you are staying. If something should happen, at least one
person knows where you are. Drop them Facebook, Line, Skype and any of social
network that they can get your last stop information.
Make sure you never put your passport in the same bag with your cash. Keep
reminding yourself the most important thing when you are traveling is passport.
If you have a smartphone screenshot passport, visa, itinerary, air ticket,
boarding passes, hotel name &address.
Listen to Inner heart
Trust your instinct or gut, if someone approaches you and you feel uncomfortable, do not worry about being rude. There are many times I have ignored men who approached in a way that didn’t feel right. I keep walking and ignore them. I may sometimes be wrong, but I don’t want to take any risk. Feel comfort to say yes when you want to say NO!
Keep smile when you appear to be friendly, other people will reach out to you to help you, because smiles not cost you any money and a lot of good things happen to you when you smile to other.
Transport
Public transportation like sky train, MRT, bus, or train is ripe for pickpockets. Never carry anything in your back pocket, and always be aware of your surroundings. It’s not just young men that pickpocket, either. Sometimes it’s a group of women who will kindly bump into you and grab your stuff. Watch out to some guys will do sexual harassment on public transportation. Avoid sleeping in public transport
Walking Around
Download Map.me will help you to walk around these apps without Wi-Fi or 3G and some food apps easy for you to find local dishes. Never wear your iPod while walking around. Not only does it make you less aware of your surroundings, but it makes you a target for thieves who will either pick pocket you or just confront you with a weapon. Better to keep your value things such passport, laptop, ipad and other heavy stuff in safety box or keep it with the receptionist desk, make sure when you are booking for stay they offer you the safety box. It can be avoids from losing while walking. it depends on where you go, if you go to riches countries just bring small cash and you can pay bills with the visa card or master card. But if you are going to developing countries I mean small countries they don’t provide visa card or credit card services, thus you are better to aware of separating your money at least in four difference spots. Carry small change in one pocket and larger bills in your bra. Never flash big bills to anyone.
It will be fine if you are walking in safe countries, but if you don’t have that feeling and want to see your map on the street, watch out do it into a store or restaurant—anywhere but on the corner.
Accommodation
When I arrive at a hostel, I try to be as friendly as I can at the desk. After I put my bags in, I ask the front desk if they have a map and can point out the bad areas of town. I also ask if there are common scams that I should know about. Carry the business card of wherever you are staying. Hostels and hotels have such generic names that it’s easy to forget and get lost, especially when you are in heavy drinking. Listen to the local people they will advise you where to go and where not. Make sure you lock the door well with alarm door, in case someone push the door in it can be wake you up very easy. If you are in dormitory watch out your value stuff keep it close to you.
Watch your eating &drinking
This is a tip that doesn’t get said often enough. It’s applicable whether you’re at home or on the road. When you drink alcohol, you dull your senses and slow your reaction time, which in turn makes you vulnerable to others.
That doesn’t mean that you should avoid drinking altogether. Instead, drink slowly. Pace yourself. Eat beforehand or during. Have a glass of water in between each drink (your body will thank you in the morning). When on solo remind yourself safety first, just drink for fun and enjoy not too much do not be out of control, never walk out to bathroom when your drink still left, finish it or change the new glass when you come back. But if you are ready to take risk then do what you want .
Watch out what you eat if you don’t want to be trouble while traveling and your stomach keep crying. Spicy is good but don’t go too much, some food might be allergy to your body make sure you know what is it? always have medicine with.
Keep your valuables while in transit
Today people travel with an amount of technology that was unfathomable a decade ago. Most travelers bring a smartphone at the very least; many bring laptops, tablets, Kindles or other e-readers, DSLR cameras with pricey lenses, and more. When you consider the costs to replace any one of those items, they definitely count as valuables.
You should have a day bag into which you can fit all of your important items: your passport, your camera, your medication, your jewelry, your credit cards, your smartphone, and any other technology, photography or otherwise valuable equipment.
Never put these items into your general backpack. Never put these items into the luggage hold on a bus. Never put any of those items into your checked luggage on a plane. If you let them out of your sight, there’s a fair chance that they could be taken away from you forever.
Spend Extra Money on Staying Safe
If you’re traveling long-term on a shoestring budget, it can be hard to justify spending extra cash when it could go toward so many more fun activities. But it’s a smart idea to financially invest in your own safety.
Be a flight hunter so you can save some to stay in safety place, if you’re staying in unsafe surrounding quickly moving to another place. Never walk alone in the darkness and late night pay more for taxi to buy your safety. Be flexible and smart to spend extra money for safe.
Why I Travel
Traveling is sound creepy and crazy to Cambodian people and some Asia families. Traveling to them is wasting money, wasting time to take risk in adventure. Most of 90% of Cambodian people the way of their life doing: born, school, work, married, give birth take care them and they die, all in do list and do the same thing. I am one of 10% who love traveling that’s why they said me I am a weird people, but I am telling you now weird people always have more beautiful soul than normal people hahaha…… you are not selfish to do what make you joy. Difference people is difference thinking and perspective, some likes buying diamond ring, some like cosmetic products, some like to spend time home for KTV. So there is not to judge people, just leave the way they are! Not every girls was born to be sweet, sour, spicy and hot, there are some like to traveling and challenging themselves to be a strong. I don’t want to live in to do list like them, born, school, work, married, baby, and die that’s no way. Go to work make money busy for the whole to do what you have to do? Then, Are you happy? Our time is limited to this world make sure you live for your life not someone else’s life. If you are keep busy doing what you have to do then you die without doing what you want, life was not born to pay bills and die. I work for international company I have a good job, a good pay in my country, then I ask myself Am I happy now? The answer was NO, so eventually I found out the key of my happiness is to help people and do a little good thing every single day and travel to see a different world. First trip to Singapore I was realized that here’s what I want. Money is important but it cannot by your smile and happiness and the experience I learnt through traveling is more valuable than money were! I earn a lot things make a new friend from wherever I have been, learn different culture, custom, cuisine, languages and life style. Live in one day die in one day too why do people so serious and put pressure to their life so much? I am not saying traveling is the key to happiness to everyone but it’s my key! I dream to be traveling around the world when I was younger I went to tourism class, but unfortunately class opened only half semester then was closed, they moved me to business management class . I want to fly like a bird never think to settle down. If you have a dream makes it as a goal then chases it hard. Traveling is the only way to find out where you belong to. Traveling has taught me how much about the world I do not understand. I am curious to see the world different. Traveling taught me responsibility, problem solving, how to be flexible, how to be strong to face in many hard circumstances. I learn body language from my traveling, how hard it deals with the barriers of languages, custom. You will learn how to read people when you were experienced trusting wrong people. Traveling is not only to see the world but also to see yourself obviously, traveling is telling you “what is the meaning of life” where Google cannot giving the answer. I met a lot of like mined people, traveling is not free make money spend some save some to consistent my traveling as long as i can, as far as i can, as much as i can!
