Common travel scams and general travel safety: how to deal with it.

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Hi and welcome to part 3!

Remember what I talked about before? So what do you do when you feel one of them scams coming up? That's right: walk away!

I can feel it now, you're all ready for ...

General travel safety.

Guard your plane ticket, passport and money! (in that order)
If you fly in and out of for example Dar, leave your plane ticket in a safe in a Dar hotel. If your hotel has no safe, you can rent one at an expensive hotel. (Better, just change hotels, the good (cheap) ones all have safes in Dar)

Do not go out at night with your passport! Leave it at the hotel (in a safe if they have one)! The same goes for your credit card. In the evenings, take only the money you'll spent and enough for a taxi home. Take that taxi! I know you're not used to taking taxi's, but it's cheap here! Safe streets during the day may become dangerous in the evenings.

Keep your eyes open when walking in a city. Parks are often not safe at night. Empty streets are to be avoided! Trust your instincts. If you feel uncomfortable, take a taxi out of there, enter a shop, stop a policeman, or just turn around an look. (Don't walk around with a feeling of being watched! Turn around and look.) Don't encourage suspicious people by speaking to them (see also above: travel scams).

Especially keep your eyes open on bus terminals and while traveling from one place to another. This is your most vulnerable moment!

That's about it. If this is your first time travelling, it may seem weird, but these simple rules will soon become second nature and you'll feel perfectly comfortable. That's when you should remember them! Many people get robbed because they feel too safe and do stupid things.
And have fun!

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