I think this article gives a better insight on this issue. We need a stat on "most dangerous countries for women travelers": https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/8-countries-where-its-dangerous-for-women-to-travel/slidelist/21202331.cms#slideid=21202333 Here is the rank: 1. India 2. Brazil 3. Turkey 4. Egypt 5. Colombia 6. Guatemala 7. Mexico 8. Kenya These countries are the most dangerous, especially if you are a women doing a solo travel. #vacation #travel
Safest would be countries like Singapore and China. Japan is not bad but it is slightly less safe than people think.
Every country has safe and unsafe regions and safe and unsafe modes of transport. Seems like foreigners want to come to India, purposely take a state bus or local trains instead of taking a private cab and then go to the most remote locations and villages and then b..ch about how it was unsafe. A lot of tourists seem to come just to “experience poverty” or some weird thrill they get from clicking pictures of under developed places. They don’t want to visit the thousands of good and safe places that exist in India. Coming from a girl who has lived in India for a huge part of her life and then moved to USA. If I go to a remote forest area in America or step out alone on 3rd Avenue in Seattle downtown I feel more unsafe than I have ever felt in India. If someone came for a visit to USA and decided to explore only the regions with heavy gun violence, they would have a negative outlook of USA too.
Lol wut? What are you smoking buddy boy rajesh? When was the last time a tourist got raped or groped in a remote forest area in the US or in Seattle downtown?
@avocadoapp you're plain stupid
weird ranking IMO. I would put most Middle East or sub Saharan countries above Columbia. Columbia is very chill in most tourist places. You just don’t go to wild eastern part, where many partisans stay to this day. And you keep reasonably increased safety measures - like avoiding pickpockets, not walking around bad districts, especially at night. And no Afghanistan on that least? You must be kidding me.
I think they excluded all the countries where war is going on or recently devastated by war, that's why they didn't consider Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Palestine etc. either. Definitely those would be the most dangerous places to visit. Some Latin American countries have abduction problem in cartel run areas, they kidnap tourists for ransom. But yea, if you can avoid those places you should be good. But I think India topped the chart for a completely different reason. There you never know who is going to rape/grope you, it's stochastic. Maybe your uber driver, or some random dude on the side walk, or the the shopkeeper on the corner of the street could be a potential rapist, it's so random. I read in another article on the other day where a woman offered money, like lots of money in Indian currency to the perpetrators not to rape her, but they refused. They just want sex. It's weird. In other countries a rapist would take money and rape too, or if the money is good, they would just leave with the money. But in India it's different, it's like full of horny men constantly looking for opportunities for any kind of sexual gratification.
Yup, I understand India. What you said kidnapping tourist I’ve heard mostly about Brazil - also gun crimes. I didn’t think about it, it makes sense looking at that list they excluded war countries. But even then I have a feeling a couple of non-war countries in Africa would be very dangerous.
I don't think this is a ranked list. India is bad but not so bad that it appears as the #1 spot. Are we not missing Afghanistan, North Korea, and a few other countries where women don't even have the same rights as men, let aside privileges?
@Google That's a completely different issue. We are talking about tourist safety. If you are talking about women's rights in general, I think Saudi would be on the last in the rank, but that shit-hole is still pretty safe for solo travel, yes, even for women. You can't just travel to North Korea, even if you could, it's still extremely difficult to get a visa/permit, and you can't "travel" anywhere in DPRK except some predefined tourist spots managed by the government, therefore irrelevant.
I got to agree with @TRUE. North Korea, unironically, is probably one of the safer places to "travel" as a tourist since you need to be in a planned tour group which puts you in constant surveillance and limits your interaction with the locals. India on the other hand has a rampant culture of taking advantage of tourists/foreigners, be it mostly street scams, and recently the gangrape of that spanish tourist couple.