>>2661081
La Cieba, Honduras. It seemed like there wasn't a single other tourist in town. I got food in a restaurant near the beach. When it was time to pay, I went to the restroom for privacy to get my cash in order. When I came out, the owner asked me why I was hiding in the bathroom, that everyone knew I was in there counting my money, and that I didn't belong in town and should definitely leave before nightfall.

It was a uncomfy vibe.

>>2661081
I was in an area called El Badari, Egypt recently. No tourists go there, it's the place the surrounding areas go to buy guns. I went to go and look at some ancient Egyptian tombs off the beaten path and got chased out by a local, my driver told me I might have been at risk of being shot.

>>2661081
I got caught in an anti-government riot in Turkey 10 years ago. A shopkeeper pulled me into his place right before the tear gas started.

>>2661081
Easy, caracas. Where the first thing you have to do when getting off the plane is make an illegal currency exchange in some backstreet with some sketchy dudes who know you're carrying American cash, and also know you're not carrying so much as a pocket knife.

Staying at the nicest hotel (InterContinental) and still had gunfire hitting the walls. Haven't been there since 2016, but it's apparently gotten even worse.

>>2661081
Baltimore, especially when I missed a turn and the streets the GPS ended up routing me through.

>>2661081
Sleeping in a van in southside Chicago after playing a house show at a skuzzy heroin den.

>>2661102
And then everyone clapped

>>2661121
I've never been, how bad are the ghettos in Baltimore?

>>2661133
Not as bad as this idiot is making out. A black guy probably looked at him and he shit his panties

>>2661081
Pretty weak sauce but really late night in a sketchy apartment complex in Orlando for an airbnb. Shared a bedroom with a bunch of randoms on bunkbeds and it made me uncomfortable. It actually wasn't bad inside it was pretty clean. I just didn't like the complex and sharing a room. If I wasn't so tired I would have feared getting raped

New Orleans, Canal Street. Got chased down the street by a drugged out bum in broad daylight on a weekday. Was getting in my face and screaming at me, attempting to grab me. This is literally one block from the most touristy part of Bourbon btw.

I was in Atlanta a few years back and the group I was with got lost on the way home from the bar and we ended up in a war zone.

It was literally like in a zombie movie where the zombies are shuffling around and then they see the normal people and they all start grunting and running towards the humans except it was nigs instead of zombies.

Another time I was working in South Central LA and I lost track of time and left the job site at like 9PM. Crackhead kept throwing themselves into my car and fat black hookers kept trying to open my door.

One time in Costa Rica I was walking with my wife through the entertainment district of town with all the shops and restaurants and shit and all the sudden there was a power outage. All the businesses locked their doors with people inside and all these big fences started slamming shut and there was a palpable sense of panic with everyone on the streets. It was almost pitch black, and everyone just started sprinting and running into each other, and you could hear people screaming in the alleys.

>>2661081
attica downtown, turned to wrong alley and holy shit it was just full of rejects, mentally ill people, street hookers, tranny hookers sitting with the girls then some meth head came yelling at me WHAT, WHAT. Life expectancy goes down hard there.

>>2661081
Sinaloa. got pulled over by a bunch of cartel affiliated farmers with guns who had blocked the road with barrels. had to pay them off to continue driving and pray they wouldn't care I had a foreign passport

Also New Orleans

>>2661083
Tell me more, why were you there, just for tourism?? Where did you end up going?

>>2661133
>how bad are the ghettos in Baltimore?
Depends on where you are and your race. White guy in the black ghetto, you can get some hate or worse, but it's a ghetto. North Ave and Greenmount Ave, Druid Hill Park area are some places to exercise caution.

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>>2661081
Honestly, the most scared I ever felt was in Thailand, when I decided to walk back to my semi rural guesthouse around midnight.

Not because of the people, but because of the dogs. During the day you don't notice them but during the night when everyones asleep every house or business has dogs (not even counting the semi feral ones) and they basically bark and run up at you, and once one starts barking the rest of them on the street are on the watch.

Absolutely huge German Shepherd launched out of nowhere at me. Thankfully their owner happened to be nearby and calmed it down, but that was a bit hairy.

>>2661128
haha
I still remember driving into a Detroit park with no nighttime lighting to crash out in my truck near a creek. The cops noticed my truck in the woods at dawn and pulled up, prolly expecting a dead body inside. They could've ticketed me for driving across the grass and illegally camping in the park, but instead they only expressed relief that I was alive (and concern that I was in danger of being robbed even in the morning hours).
>>2661154
Last airbnb I stayed in, the room next door had a creepy faggot who kept scratching on the wall, moaning, knocking, and voicing dirty overtures in a simpering voice. The rooms shared a door, and I was flying high on edibles, but thankfully he ended up only beating his meat talking filthy to the wall. Bay Area of California, figures.

>>2661271
I also made the mistake of thinking a 10 PM moonlight walk through the quiet streets of a Thai village was a good idea. The two dozen street curs changed my mind right quick.
>>2661206
Was that one of those tollboth takeovers on Highway 15? They were a regular occurrence for a while.

>>2661133
Baltimore is my yardstick for how bad a place sucks. If it's as bad or worse, it ain't worth going to.

the dangerous path in some moutains

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>>2661081
Part of Johannesburg. Actually I didn't feel it on the first day. But after talking to a few locals as they pointed out some of the crime issues, I felt quite anxious the following days. In fact I didn't even notice a lot of electrical fences around until afterward including our hotel.

Columbus, OH. Pulled into a street and watched a guy get stomped on. they tried to curb stomp him but missed. they put him on his knees and held a gun to his head and then I honked my horn because these niggers were still blocking the street and then they ran (drove an ex cop car at the time)

>>2661103
Pretty you can pay dollars there. Why would you exchange precious new dollar bills into local toilet paper

>>2661081
On the beaches around Mombasa, after dark. All the homeless/super poor Africans sleep on the beach near the boundary with the vegetation. I was clueless of this fact until I was approached by a couple very tall men who began asking me for money.

This was after 10pm and it was unlit except for the moon.

I told them I didn't bring anything with me and started walking away. They followed me. I told them to leave me alone.
>we want money
I told them again I didn't have any money and was just walking back to my hotel.
>you give us money
Just repeating it like on autopilot.
I climbed up the seawall type of thing and trespassed onto a resort property and headed towards the lights. The homeless nigs just stared at me.
Security guy stopped me when I was almost there and asked me what I was doing, I explained the situation and apologized for entering the property that way but I was afraid I was about to be robbed.
He told me I had gotten lucky, because usually men like that don't ask and just attack. He said to me I could have been killed easily, and nobody goes to the beach after dark because of the robbers. He escorted me off the resort grounds to the main road.
Then, he asked me for money also.
>can you give me tip?

Fucking Africa.

>>2661121
Yep, couldn't agree more. I did a job interview near there. They put me up in some apart hotel thing that had someone try to break in during the night, luckily I had the chain on the door. When the driver took me back to the airport the next day, there was an accident and we had to take a detour and he told me to crouch down on the floor as we drove through the area lol.

>>2661081
Lived in Brazil. Got shot at once, robbed at gunpoint twice. Watched many people die. One time watched this gang beat a man to death and stab his face and neck repeatedly with a broken glass bottle mere seconds after talking to them about playing futbol with us. Saw more dead bodies than I care to remember, one time walked up to a rotten child corpse hanging from a tree. Shit was traumatic.

>>2661345
>Then, he asked me for money also
Fucking kek

>>2661081
Local train station in the evening.

>>2661081
It’s embarrassingly obvious, but I was in Kabul for work late in the American period there, and it was grim. I got daily security updates in my e-mail about known villains who had been seen in town, I wasn’t allowed to go anywhere on my own, I was given “danger pay.” It was in practice totally fine, but right after I left a bunch of people got murdered in a fancy hotel. It’s probably actually safer now but I am a little embarrassed to have gone when and how I did.

I have also been to a small number of other semi-active war zones or recent conflict/unrest areas in Africa (Liberia, Burundi, Côte d’Ivoire), and I can’t understand how any dipshit could possibly decide it’s a good idea to get in the way in places like that.

War tourism isn’t just for stupids, it’s for complete assholes.

>>2661083
I actually had a great time in La Ceiba last month.
>walk almost 2 miles across town at dusk because I don’t want to argue with taxi drivers
>people stare at my big backpack but no one fucks with me
>planned to stealth camp in the woods near the beach because I’m an edgelord
>google La Ceiba crime rates and chicken out
>get a room in a hotel which wis shitty, but which has the most pleasant rooftop bar I’ve seen
>get half-drunk with the owner and his daughter in the bar
> walk 8 blocks in the dark to a Chinese restaurant
>make the owner happy by speaking a little Chinese to him
>buy a beer from a shop and eat my Chinese food on the stoop
>get a (admittedly ghetto) haircut from a teenager in a tattoo parlor where men were playing pool
>walk back to the nice terrace bar and finish getting drunk with hotel owner
>pass through town again a week later
>decide to camp where I’d originally planned because I got good vibes
>hide backpack in bushes and drink beers at resort hotel until dark
>string my hammock from 2 huge trees >read Osamu Dazai stories on my phone while fireflies dance around my hammock and waves crash on the beach
>next day I walk 2 miles across town with bigass Osprey backpack, no one fucks with me
Not saying I didn’t get lucky, but people who live in shitholes tend to be cowards, so I don’t always take them seriously when they try to spook me

>>2661241
I’m guessing he was going to Rostand or Utila, you have to get the boat from La Ceiba if you can’t afford a flight

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>>2661241
> why were you there, just for tourism?
Yeah mostly, it's my goal is visit every country in the world and I was just crossing that one off my bucket list. It wasn't all bad though, the beaches were really nice.

>>2661336
Shame you didn't run them over

>>2661440
Kek my compound got flattened by a truck bomb. They were trying to blow up the gurkha barracks but got stopped short and detonated in our front gate. Blew out all the windows and destroyed our gym, chow hall, offices and collapsed one set of container rooms.

Half our workforce took the next flight out.

>>2661440
How do I get a job like that? Seems perfect for me.
I have no family except for mom who lives in another state, no wife/gf, no children (big surprise on 4chan right). I wasn't in the military though, is that a requirement?

>>2661512
Security clearance is your ticket, then get with a contracting company with a job skill you have. Some sponsor security clearances. Looking up big government contractors and look on their websites for overseas positions.

>>2661345
>Fucking Africa.
yeah I was in zanzibar this year, it is really shameless. These guys try to be your friends and act personal and homie and care free then the next day come with some sob story about how they need a little bit of money.

>>2661081
San Salvador, El Salvador felt a tad dangerous, as did Salvador, Brazil as soon as you left the "tourist" bits.

Someone tried to rob me in Managua, Nicaragua. I found parts of the Philippines unnerving and didn't like exploring after dark in Panama City past the tourist zone.

I was tear gassed in Istanbul but that was just unlucky as I accidentally ended up near a protest.

>>2661081
I visited Jackson Mississippi to volunteer during their water crisis and attempted to get a fried bologna sandwich from this shop I’d seen on YouTube travel channels. I witnessed two sets of vehicles with guys hanging out of the windows firing fully automatic weapons at each other. Neither could hit the other car but bullets were spraying all over the place. I hit the ground and I heard bullets ricocheting off the walls and popping on the ground around me. I will NEVER go back to Jackson Mississippi again.

>>2661440
People got murdered in a fancy hotel? Try explaining a bit.

>>2661733
It was in the news… suicide attack at the Intercontinental Hotel, then (and probably still) the fanciest hotel in Kabul. I just looked it up—I guess only half a dozen guests actually died, small potatoes by terrorism standards. Ancient history by now, as well—this was in January 2011. I was based in Kabul for all of December 2010, including attending a couple of events at the hotel.

>>2661398
where in Brazil was this? I spent a lot of time there in the south and midwest. I really appreciate stories from there

>>2661521
What parts of Panama City ?

>>2661773
As in tourist zones to me can be casco viejo, el cangrejo and the richer parts of town, but casco viejo already has a ghetto just minutes by foot from it. Or you mean places like el chorrillo where you explored ?

>>2661520
>These guys try to be your friends and act personal and homie and care free then the next day come with some sob story about how they need a little bit of money.
One of the many reasons I will never kive there. It's impossible to be friends with the locals. It's all just buildup so they can ask you for money. Even with "rich" men they are only cultivating a relationship in the hopes you can network them with some international source of capital.

>>2661103
Last I heard, people would even get robbed in the airport. I like risk but that's one place I won't go.

>>2661081
Im from a 3rd world country, not easily scared and the answer is easy: Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela

>>2661271
lmao I was actually bit by a dog in Trat

>>2661271
The dogs in Thailand can be scary as hell for real. Some of the monkey packs too.

Jordan

>>2662164
seriously?

>>2661345
>Then, he asked me for money also.
Based.
But for real, he did give you something with the information.

>>2661786
IME one of my drivers in Congo was a totally solid dude who refused a tip.

>>2662164
>>2662166
Yeah, wouldn't mind a qrd here.
I've slept on Aqaba beach, chlled out at night in Amman, hung around Irbid with the locals, even got invited to a house party by a girl whose father had an AK gifted by Saddam with the pic to prove it. I didn't get a dodgy vibe whatsoever. this was like 2013 or so though.

>>2662236
He did his job of catching me and removing me from the property
all we did was have a conversation
he didn't deserve a tip for simply doing his job and talking to me, you imbecile.

I suspect it is absolute retards like you who give africans the impression that merely interacting with a white person is enough to earn a bill in hand.

>>2662126
Even for Venezuela that's an out of the way part of the country. What were you up to there? Were else in Venezuela did you travel?

>>2662262
Well i could’ve just shot you. You sound like you deserved a bullet

>>2662242
I went in 2021 and while I was doing very normie tourist things and staying at a nice hotel, it was one of the safest feeling, friendliest countries I've ever visited. The entire place exuded wealth and security. I can only assume this post is trolling

>visit Caribbean niggerisland completely unprepared
>soon realise there is no uber or public transport and walking everywhere is not fun in the heat. also nowhere takes cards and I have no cash.
>hang out at a local bar all day and end up chatting to the woman who owns the bar
>she seems extremely friendly and cheerful and says she's more than happy to give me a lift to the cash machine and take me to to other beaches
>spend the whole day travelling around with her and her daughter, feeling like I am bonding with the locals and making friends. this whole time I am thanking them for helping me and offering to buy drinks
>eventually when I get dropped off the woman bluntly asks for $250 saying it would be half of what a taxi driver would ask for a days driving around
>feel extremely awkward and stunned, say I will go and get it out of my bag
>run away and jog for 30 mins back to my airbnb
a small part of my brain always felt guilty and wondered if I should have expected it or if I missed some kind of social cue, but reading this thread reinforces my opinion that they were just greedy black people with a complex about white people owing them something
it really ruined my experience there and made me dislike blacks more

>>2662323
should've asked upfront how much retard

>>2662326
dude they acted like my friends
if I am at the bar and I overhear a guy saying he is out of cigs and I offer to take him to the local shop to get some more I'm not expecting fucking money
it's called being a normal, social, nice person

Different kind of danger, but once when I was younger and more stupid my friends and I attempted to summit Mt Sanford on a sub-optimal day. Most of the final ascent was fine, but with 750' of elevation to go we were socked in with clouds with about 10 feet of visibility, after summiting we were hit with pretty much a complete whiteout and it became near impossible to retrace our steps. Once we hit 13,000' in elevation it became pretty clear that we were not going to find Camp 4 and that we were lost - we should have just found a spot and made camp, but a friend insisted we keep driving to locate Camp 3.

That day was +3000 and -6000 feet in elevation in about 14 hours of work. As the sun was setting I had a very distinct feeling of "Oh, yea, this is really fucking dangerous." Fortunately, Sanford isn't technical and we were able to get off the mountain safely. But yea, that felt dangerous.

>>2662333
mountain climbers all deserve to die

>>2661083
What the fuck, lol?

I spent a few nights in La Cieba in early 2020. It was just an ordinary Latin American town--it certainly didn't feel any more dangerous than San Pedro Sula or Tegucigalpa. I actually had a good time there.

From what I recall, I got piss-drunk at my hotel and ended up wandering the streets late at night to find food. Met a bunch of interesting people. Lots and lots of street vendors who'd lived in America before getting deportead and spoke pretty good English.

My favorite was some homeless fucking crackhead who sounded like he'd spent most of his life in Miami. I was drunk and wanted cigarettes, and he offered to run down the street and grab them for me in exchange for a couple of smokes. Gave him money, fully expecting to never see him again--but he came back a few minutes later, handed me the receipt from the gas station, and told me which places in town had the best hot dogs (lol).

(in hindsight, I've actually had a lot of crackheads in Latin America buy me cigarettes and other such shit when I've been drunk--surprisingly, not a single one ever ran off with the money)

>>2661102
>a riot 10 years ago
Was it the Gezi Park protests?

I got caught up in that shit on my first-ever trip abroad. I'd just come back to Turkey from Greece, and the owner of the hostel I was staying at told me and a German guy that "some hippies are having a protest in the park, and we should totally go down there and try to pick up some liberal Turkish women."

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>>2662339
cont.

IIRC, by the time we wandered down, the police had already disbanded the initial protest. We wandered around the edge of the park, found a few people waving SDP banners, and then--out of nowhere--some riot cops came charging down a hill toward the corner of Tarlabasi Bulvari. I turned around to run and got beaned in the back with a rubber bullet (and saw a random old man get knocked down after a tear gas canister hit him directly in the face).

Lost track of my German friend, and followed by a bunch of "random" Turks running into an apartment. Got upstairs, looked around, and saw pictures of Marx and Lenin on the wall--turned out to be the SDP neighborhood headquarters, lol. To make a long story short, I got stuck in there for ~2 hours while the police tried to break the door down (I think they called a lawyer, who in turn got the police called off).

Picrel, sorta--this was a week or so later. I was staying very close to Taksim, so we were in the middle of all the protests. I think, in this case, protesters had said up barricades toward one of the Europe-Asia bridges and managed to push back a pretty big police offensive--everybody had started running away from the line, then somebody lit a fuck-ton of fireworks and everyone came running back.

TBQH Taksim + much of Beyoglu was basically just a giant street party for the week or so that there was no police presence.

>>2662340
>>2662339
Anway, so far as the OP goes, I've been to:
>many places in the Central American gang belt
>Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan (the latter felt fine, but passing through suburban, pre-ISIL Mosul was still spooky)
>rural Pakistan (not scary at all--though there was a suicide bombing near my hotel in Peshawar several days after I left)
>guerrilla-controlled jungles in Colombia and India

Never felt unsafe, but I also make an effort to avoid getting caught up in anything too stupid. Biggest "shiet" moment I had was while speaking to a Maoist guerrilla who casually mentioned killing several dozen police officers over the course of 1-2 years (did some casual fact-finding afterward--he wasn't lying). But we were sitting down and having a chat in his courtyard, and there was nothing even remotely dangerous about it.

>>2662334
Many do end up dying.

This stories could make a good book

>>2661081
San Jose, Costa Rica. By day I felt everyone staring at us like we were easy targets because we didn't speak Spanish. By night, my husband and I took a taxi to the gastronomy district to meet a friend of mine who owned a restaurant. It was dark and the driver literally would not leave until he saw us meet our friend. In hindsight that was a taxi driver who really cared about people.

>>2662340
You got lucky. I was working there at the time and 2 colleagues (white and Western) were beaten up, arrested and deported within 48 hours simply due to being on the street at night when some protests erupted, one of them just walking home from work. This was separate incidents, authorities just wanted to be able to pin some blame on foreign elements. I had a short walk from work to home and worst I got was tear gassed a couple of times but I saw all kinds of brutality between protestors and police from my window.

Still felt safer there than living in Birmingham. There was a guy stabbed to death literally right outside my window and I saw two other stabbing incidents. I actually lived in a nice part of town.

>>2661512
The advice right below your comment is probably sensible. If you are a non-military person with any of a range of real-world skills and experience, who specifically wants to work in unpleasant places, there are dozens of companies funded by defense and other big-gov agencies hiring.

The job I personally had in Afghanistan no longer exists, so my personal experience is not relevant. I was working on the lower echelons of the senior staff at large NGOs, and if that sounds like a career you want to pursue you should hopefully already know how to do it well enough. Requires at least a couple of degrees and an amount of being in the right places at the right times.

If nobody has ever made any of these kinds of noises in your vicinity, this is not a path you want to bother with. There are other, arguably better, options.

>>2662316
I deserve a bullet for running away from robbers onto a hotel property? You're an idiot. Never post again.

>>2661512
Same here. I have a deployment (no combat though) and a security clearance under my belt. Not much in the way of skills other than static security but I'm back in school RN.

>>2662682
>You got lucky. I was working there at the time and 2 colleagues (white and Western) were beaten up, arrested and deported within 48 hours
Undoubedly.

That was my first-ever trip abroad. I was 19, and I got much too close to the "action" while taking pictures and "speaking to the locals." It all made for a very interesting and memorable experience, but I'd never do the same thing at my current age.

I also learned to ride a motorcycle in New Delhi. I didn't have any accidents and managed to become a very confident rider--I have a bike here in the U.S., and own another that I keep at my in-laws' house in India--but would actively advise anyone from learning in a country like India. Don't regret doing it, but there was so much potential to go wrong that I didn't really stop and think about at the time.

>>2662740
You gave me some great advice on here at the time about travelling round the Southeast and some other places so pretty thankful that you got away with it

>>2662316
Post more.

>>2661081
Callao Peru walk and within one block and you will 100% be robbed.
I have seen multiple people machine gunned to death in Peru 100' in front of me.
I have seen a bus plunge off a cliff at 14,000' and spill bodies and baggage all the way down the mountain - the bleeding limping injured trying to crawl back up to the road, was right out of a horror zombie movie.

I've saw a person run over, go over the wheel well and the driver got out and threw the body into the back of the pickup and drove off.
I met escaped Nazi's hiding in the Andes.

Belize City with fuck tons of deported crips and bloods.

Any town on the Pacific side of Ecuador.

>>2662757
The southeast of Turkey or India?

You're welcome if it was me who gave the advice--which it likely was, since I've been using this shit board for ages. Not meme-ing. Am genuinely glad it helped. I relied heavily on /trv/ before taking my first trip, and got great advice on places to go in nearly every country I visited (including Iraq).

IMO, this board is getting better, but it's still much harder to get good-faith advice about places like Turkey/the Middle-East/India/Africa than it used to be. Pls be a good autist and pay it forward to other new /trv/elers.

>>2662717
>I have a deployment (no combat though) and a security clearance under my belt. Not much in the way of skills other than static security but I'm back in school RN.

I guess my advice for you is the same as for the other guy—look for contracting firms funded by DOD or other government agencies, see what kinds of jobs they have. My specific line of work (management roles at big NGOs) no longer exists in Afghanistan, and the jobs are surprisingly cutthroat and workaholic given how poorly they mostly pay. I would never recommend it to anyone who wasn’t already passionate enough/foolhardy enough to be heading in that direction already.

But there are paths that are probably both shorter and more lucrative than trying to do what I did.

>>2662828
Turkey. I've been on this shithole for way too long too so it's easy to recognise certain anons. I do agree that the quality of posts here are getting better somehow, but definitely seems like the diversity of destinations has decreased.

>>2662834
>I do agree that the quality of posts here are getting better somehow
As much as I hate to do this, I'm going to have give some credit to the mods--I think the restriciton on sex tourism-related discussion has slowed down the pace of new posts, and driven away a lot of LARPing retards who are more interested in discussing racial fetishes than actual travel.

But I don't know. Could also just be that the post-Trump /pol/ wave has died down, too.

>>2661325
A lot of houses in South Africa have really strong home security which is always a sign that you're in a sketchy place I feel like. You get it in Brazil too.

>>2661083
In a friendly heads up way or a bitter "you don’t belong here" way?

>>2661081
bradford

>>2661081
>willingly going to a third world country
ISHYGDDT

>>2662316
Keep posting.

>>2662262
No, but tipping is the wrong framework. I found that the pattern was continuous mutual gift exchange, but that the gifts didn't need to be limited to money. If your whole perception of being asked for money is being shaken down, then we have a very different experience of Africa. I'd only call customs shakedown enjoyers. Maybe one beggar at a tourist spot. To the nigga's credit, he did look hungry.
I think from an African POV you had oodles of spare money, he did you a solid (offered you protection, guided you out, laced you up with info) and you snubbed him.

>>2661081
Unironically the UK. Their cities are fucking shitholes full of """urban youth""", drunks and refugee looking people hanging around.
People have 0 respect and restraint there and it shows.

>>2661083
>I went to the restroom for privacy to get my cash in order.
Lol, autism.

Put your big bills in your shirt pocket and small bills for food and drinks in youre regular pants pocket, that way youre not taking out hundreds to pay for a $2 drink.

>>2663201
It doesn't matter. I get the connotations of the words "you don't belong here" as a mexican living in the US sometimes, but if someone tells you that in Latin America they are trying to save your life. If you got a couple hours to spare and can enjoy the area before things get dangerous, they'll say it in a friendly way. If you've got to hurry up and leave because danger is on the way, the tone will be bitter.

>>2661174
>One time in Costa Rica...
When youre reminded that the second they know that if they all do it no one will be charged, they will.

Ooportunistic, he is perfectly moral...as long as he knows he will get caught.

>>2661345
I was in Mombasa up until yesterday. I couldn't be more happier that we left back for Nairobi. Never felt any danger as I didn't really go out at uncrowded places after dark, but godDAMN was every black person we talked to downtown annoying.
>constant begging from children
>locals that are ALWAYS trying to sell you something, even fucking rubber keychains
>guides that keep pressuring you even after you've told them no, trying to guilt trip you
The moment we arrived at the train station some taxi driver walks up to us all friendly and happy to take us. We told him we'll get an Uber, he said he'll match the price and we ignored him. After our Uber pulls up he starts cursing and telling us we "will not have fun". Fucking thirdies man.

Philadelphia. I've never had anyone in any city on earth try to sell me crack. We weren't out of the car for 5 seconds. I've never felt more unsafe or had more terrible shit happen in a shorter period of time than in Philly.

>>2661081

Anywhere in mexico. Fuck mexico, you cant trust mexicans as all, they are so full of shit. You cant go on a road trip, you cant go hiking, well you can, you just might get kidnapped and killed by roaming bands of drug dealers.

>>2662321
I was attacked 3 times. Wadi rum, Amman and once near Petra. Asked people to call the police and they did nothing. Couldnt get into any type of taxi/cab/uber without them trying to scam me. Ended up chaperone for several white euro several because they were so exhausted from men leering and grabbing at them.

>>2663970
euro women*

>>2661081
Every day in Poland my brains telling me i should be armed with OC and vest because you keep running into these total slavish fake white niggers, polish people are not human. Never forget or forgive that these people scarred my face, cheated me on bank issues when i trusted them, fucked up accomodation at first chance, started a fight when i was sleeping, directed me to wrong address with 112 to empty parking lot when i was bleeding and told to not stay in church ground. If god wills it i hope they get nuclear striked by russia or anyone with heart to end these west leeching slavic bastards for good. Fuck em all. Final words, never trust poland or polish people. I did and i would never do it again. Fuck em all. They are your enemy. I wont come here again unless goverment needs invasion troops. They also drugged some brittish tourist to death in strip club recently, you can never trust polacks in adult industries.

Vietnam purely for the traffic situation
I rode a motorbike from Hue to Ho Chi Minh and i'm surprised I wasn't killed
easily the worst drivers on the planet

>>2661345
>Then, he asked me for money also.
>can you give me tip?
>Fucking Africa.
lmfao my dad lived in Kenya for several years and he always complained about this type of thing
>>2663279
True but most of them rarely interact with you, if they do it's usully just to ask for change
when I went to Australia I was struck by how much more aggressive their crackheads were than UK crackheads
>>2663338
>locals that are ALWAYS trying to sell you something, even fucking rubber keychains
>guides that keep pressuring you even after you've told them no, trying to guilt trip you
>The moment we arrived at the train station some taxi driver walks up to us all friendly and happy to take us. We told him we'll get an Uber, he said he'll match the price and we ignored him. After our Uber pulls up he starts cursing
South East Asia is like this.
Multiple times i've been followed down the street for a few minutes by people trying to sell me shit. Had people grab me too. One lady in Vietnam even jumped in front of my motorbike to try and get me to stop at her cafe. And the SIM card ladies at Hanoi Airport shouting at the top of their lungs at me that I need to buy their SIM card and that the other lady is too expensive.
It's non stop and completely ruins the experience imo.

>>2664746
that's Vietnam, not whole SEA
Thais are way more polite and this kind of selling is limited to biggest tourist traps and even there is less aggressive
at Bangkok airport there are only official telcos selling SIM cards, authorities are smart enough not to allow rude scammers to ruin their country's image on arrival

but why would you talk to locals in Africa unless they are prime-age women??

>>2661081
Belle Glade, Florida. Definitely one of the most third world looking places in America.
Tulum, Mexico. Federal police everywhere with machine guns mounted on the back of pickup trucks.
Also the Muslim slums of Paris which felt like being in Baghdad or something.

>>2661081
Shoutout to Atlantic City, New Jersey- a filthy grouping of casinos and urban poverty. Also Camden, NJ (a bit less so now).

>>2661081
Bilbao Spain I walked out of my hostel and there were like 80 dudes up and down the street looking at me

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>>2661158
>New Orleans, Canal Street
Where should I stay on New Orleans for a night?
Will I get in a fight if I'm walking around with my gf downtown?

>>2665478
>Shoutout to Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City isn't that bad now, is actually seeing a resurgence because a lot of bands are doing shows there post covid and some of the new casinos are viewed as grimy

>>2661345
>>can you give me tip?
Kek based

>>2661512
You'd need a clearance most likely for a foot in the door

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>>2661081
Slovakia on a business visit. Went to a local "western looking" supermarket store to purchase toiletries/supplies. Had some wigger slav mafia dude bump my shoulder while I was shopping. I would have done his face in if I wasn't more concerned about my job/implications of legal issues in that country.
>>2663982
this is accurate of Eastern Europe in general. You either run into gypsies, mafia, wiggers/drug dealers or poors. If their women weren't so drop dead gorgeous I would find no reason to return to that area of the world.

>>2662709
>>2662767
>>2663273
Samefag

>>2662811
>I met escaped Nazi's hiding in the Andes
No you didn't

>>2662834
>diversity of destinations has decreased
A lot of places you could get away with 10-15 years ago, you can't risk as much now. At least Isis isn't a thing really anymore

>>2663970
When I went to amman I just stick with the Petra tour people and stayed within walking distance of my hotel more or less

>>2663550
Philly isn't that bad, Kensington and Allegheny the videos of zombies you see on YouTube and shit is relatively safe. You could be a skinny white guy and just sit down at talk to people all night and be fine

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All of you guys must be brown to be walking around Venezuela and Pakistan without having much trouble

>>2663289
>Most dangerous
>Paris
Lol. How do you even manage to leave the basement when you are literally afraid of your own shadow?

>>2661081
San Pedro Sula, Honduras. I turned a corner and saw a man walking towards me, dazed, covered in blood from his head on down. I immediately turned noped out in another direction

>>2665502
NOLA is the Big Easy, most people are laidback, but it seems every city you visit in America these days has a ranting screaming bum or two wandering around on the streets.

>>2661478
Being taller and bigger than the locals makes all the difference for your personal safety in LatAm. They might harass you to test your mettle, but it's like the little dogs who bark at the big dog.

>>2662328
this is why I don't try to be friends with Thirdies any more. Every interaction is gonna be business...polite and friendly business, yes, but still business. If they bullshit around "trust building", it's a big red flag in my mind, and I become increasingly hostile.
>>2662323
Classic tour scam, no price quoted until the outrageous figure at the end. In this case, they got suckered when you pulled the reverse negro card and dashed off LOL. I'd be paranoid as fuck afterwards, though. A bar owner has lots of friends.

>>2661133
A family member of mine who works in law enforcement told me anybody could be a Baltimore cop because fucking nobody wants to be one and deal with the crime there.

Either the southern green line in chicago or philippines

the latter isn't crazy, but it's no japan/hong kong/thailand that's for sure

Peru trv anons, is it really that wild in Peru??

>>2661103
>it's apparently gotten even worse.

No, it's actually very safe now. All the criminals and crime has moved to neighboring Colombia.

>>2665545

which famous meetup was this? /trv?

>>2665545
I'm very white and I had no problems at all in Pakistan. I felt safer than in India because there weren't people constantly circling and harassing me.

>>2661336
kek what

>>2661489
>gurkha barracks
these niggas still their own thing?

>>2662342
>>guerrilla-controlled jungles in Colombia and India
why nigga

>>2662811
larp

>>2661081
Felt kinda dodgy in part of Kinshasa

>>2665545
The brownest guy looks the best

>>2661081
Memphis TN

>>2663982
Woah dude, that seems unbelievably rough. I'm Polish BTW. I'd really like to know some context about how this all happened. How the fuck could someone beat you up while you were sleeping? Where you were sleeping, how and who? Who the fuck cheated you on banking (because this couldn't be a bank worker). Were you drunk?

>They also drugged some brittish tourist to death in strip club recently
>you can never trust polacks in adult industries.
Oh, I think I'm starting to get it. Are you by any chance a westerner who went to some shitty club for gopniks to which you were invited to by a hostess that gave you a free drink or some shit, you got spiked or you passed out drunk and some drunk decided to beat you up because he felt like it, and you couldn't communicate with 112 because you were so drunk, and the church told you to fuck off from their property because you looked like a drunk idiot?

If something along the lines happened, dude, you've asked for it. If you're going to a club that isn't some weird hipster place that a tourist wouldn't find, you're literally going to a high danger zone, and that's a rule which applies everywhere. You never go to strip clubs, and if you googled if it's safe to go there, every answer would be screaming NO. Yes, these fuckers are gangsters that are going to get you drunk or spike you, steal your credit card, and do all kinds of shit. You never trust nobody in adult industries, no matter where you are.

Your story sounds like a really bad clubbing night. I love how tourists like you get pass out drunk, put themselves in dangerous situations, then get in trouble and blame it on the country and its citizens. Wow. Typical pretentious British tourist in Kraków behavior.

>>2666704
Got a prostitute in Memphis and thought I was about to get carjacked the entire time

>>2666598
>>2665545
/fa/ I believe

>>2666678
In the case of India, there isn't any big risk in visiting Maoist-affected areas--so long as you're reasonably familiar with the local terrain, and aren't affiliated with the Indian governmenr or its security forces.

The Maoists have been waging a low-intensity insurgency against the state for more than a half-century. In all of that time, they have only rarely targeted foreign nationals for any reason. If I'm not mistaken, back in the 1960s and 1970s, there were some incidents involving the kidnapping of ex-colonial officials who'd reamined in India for various reasons. But they were kidnapped because they were wealthy--not because they were foreign.

Theo only high-profile incident that has occurred since then is the kidnapping of two Italian tourists by a Maoist militia commander in ~2014. But that was a fluke--the kidnapping hadn't been approved by the Maoist organization's governing council, and was one factor in the eventual decision to expel that commander from the party (along with his involvement in communal riots a year or two earlier).

IIRC, a handful of other morons have also been "detained" by Maoists--mostly because they sort of wandered into guerilla-controlled areas without being able to speak Hindi, and therefore couldn't explain to a bunch of illiterate tribals why they had high-tech camping supplies and GPS devices and whatnot. In each of these cases, though, the foreigners were released unharmed and without any demands.

Biggest issue is that, if you go to one of these places without a local, you could step on a landmine or punji sticks or some shit (happens to villagers every few months). But it's not really a big risk, because most of these areas are inaccessible without a local guide--the security forces will either turn you around at a checkpoint, or villagers themselves will (very nicely) tell you to immediatley get lost and/or vacate the area before sunset.

>>2666885
A lot of the people in these areas are extremely cut off from the outside world, which leads to some really funny miscommunications. For example, I once went hiking while wearing a camoflauge hat and green-ish hiking pants. I'm whiter than fucking sour cream, but the local villagers went running in terror because they thought I was "from the force" (i.e., I was an Indian CRPF soldier).

Anyway, to answer the "why": these areas are extremely interesting from an anthropological POV, and they're extremely beautiful from any POV. Basically some of the largest and most unspoiled tracts of wilderness in the entire country, excepting parts of Kerala and the upper Himalayan range.

Same was true for Colombia, although I went before the FARC demoblization--there was, and remains, a much bigger threat of random violence there than in India. The Indian Maoists are 100% terrorists fighting for a lost cause, but they're not ISIS or narco-traffickers--they kill police officers and paramilitary officers as part of their campaign against the state, and sometimes murder villagers suspected of acting as informants or collaborators. But they don't blow themselves up, and they don't murder random people for the sake of it.

Basically, it's not 100% safe, but you can avoid 99% of problems 99% of the time by not being a fucking retard. If you don't go looking for trouble, you're not going to get into any.

>>2666885
>>2666887
Not related to this thread at all, but just wanted to say thank you for this very insightful post. Always wondered what the "low level insurgency" shit was on various maps and stuff.

>>2666749
Brit here living in Poland. I agree that British tourists are scum, and I despise seeing them out. However, I have empathy when it comes to the clip joint scams.
I despise dishonest behaviour by businesses, and these places shouldn't be protected. Poland's better than sticking up for corruption, mafia-adjacent cunts, and civvies getting drugged and beaten.

Poland's reputation as a safe place is worth protecting, and it really confuses me why people are so quick to support the quick joints. I think it's just taking anger out on shitty tourists and wanting to see them punished for their dog shit behaviour.
Personally I'd rather see groups of lads directly knocked the fuck out on the street for being disrespectful than cunts in basements trying to gip people.

>>2666885
if u want to see some nice landscapes, why not travel america's vast forests and mountains? why go to some third world rural shithole where there is a chance of dying?

>>2666567
not true. You have to go to the academy. They're pretty selective of who they take now. You need drug tests, credit checks, criminal background checks. They also require a polygraph test. The older cops on the force who didn't have to do all that shit are the worst cops.

Tijuana Mexico and Philadelphia. Both were just cesspools of poverty, crime and human misery.

New York

>>2666749
Polish people are low-class scammers and manual labor workers and Poland wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Britain

>>2667428
Unless you were in Harlem holding an "I hate niggers" sign like in that Die Hard movie, I don't believe you for a second. NY is safe by American city standards.

>>2665502
Honestly I would stay on Frenchman or Royal. Still in the Quarter but away from Canal and the craziness on Bourbon.

>>2664782
>Tulum, Mexico. Federal police everywhere with machine guns mounted on the back of pickup trucks.

Honestly this is tame and its for your own safety

>>2667367
I always love hearing people experiences in Philly and how center city terrified them. Growing up there'd be Catholic school girls on every subway and bus while grown men are fearing for their lives

>>2661271
Bruh, being tracked by a pack of stray dogs in Thailand is probably still the most danger I've ever been in traveling. My friend and I were walking through the sri nakhon park on that island just south of Bangkok proper and at some point we ended up being trailed by a pack of dogs. They were barking at us and rushing around in the undergrowth, but from our vantage point on this boardwalk we couldn't see them which was the worst part. As it started to get darker and darker, it became way sketchier and we ended up just leaving the little bit of jungle and going to a more populated part of the island with the dogs barking and howling at us the whole time and clutching clubs, never knowing when they'd decide to make their move.

>>2667572
I have a homeless guy in Philly $2 because it was his birthday. 2 guys walked up, pulled out guns, and pistol whipped the homeless guy in front of me for the $2. I had only been in the city for 2 hours. You're not gong to bullshit me and tell me Philly is safe.

>>2666897
>it really confuses me why people are so quick to support the quick joints
I don't think that anyone in their right mind supports those places, I haven't ever met a person who did, everyone knows that these are mafia ran, tied to corrupt politicians and wants them out of business if anything.

Some people just don't care about people who end up there because of
>it's just taking anger out on shitty tourists and wanting to see them punished for their dog shit behaviour.
this, because most people here HATE sex tourists from other countries or other scumbags who fly to Kraków for a weekend to get completely drunk and behave like total pigs and piss everyone off.

Or simply the "you've asked for it" mentality is a big thing in Poland, and since everyone knows that going to strip clubs/fucking prostitutes is not only immoral but also dangerous, if you went to a strip club you're not only a bad person, but also an idiot who asked for it. Even if you get scammed online because you did something retarded, most people aren't going to try to cheer you up and they'll call you a retard instead.

Also most Polish people, including myself and my friends have a mixed opinion about tourists. If you came here to learn about the culture, visit places, see things, you're absolutely 100% welcome, especially people in smaller cities are going to appreciate it. But if you're a Brit who flew to Kraków to get hammered and try your chances at a cheap strip club, fuck off.

>Polish people are manual labor workers
We're literally a service based economy
>Poland wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Britain
You were the ones we had an alliance with before WW2 and you refused to help us when shit hit the fan, also it was the USSR who liberated Poland, you pretty much did nothing exclusively for us, we ended up as a satellite soviet state because of your diplomatic incompetency.

Germany had a much larger impact on how good Poland is right now in the last 20 years than you bongs ever did.

>>2666749
basically i was in bunker bed, you got small stairs up, went there and phone started ringing so i answered, turns out there was some junkie underneath who said shut the fuck up once then i said wasnt talking to you calm down, just sucker punched immediatly with no warning because he was on drugs. Then i punched back and called the cops, but 911 redirected to empty parking lot and from there on to military hospital, they just took out OC spray and said no passing so had to wander to darkness into construction yard and 112 cut off, then i reported it. Smoked some CBD to get over it then ukraine people snitched about being high.
Also tourists like to call people faggots passing by, especially the skinheads so started to avoid drinking and smoking to always be ready to go. If you say shit back they start a fight and if you dont they think they won so theres no good options. I like girls just not the ones that like to kick autistic 8 year olds at park like Lexi.

>>2667974
lmao speaking like this it's no wonder you get knocked the fuck out wherever you go. you sound like an insufferable cunt.

>>2667974
Hey bro ngl based on what you said and how you said it, it sounds like you deserved every single thing that happened to you in your story lmao.

>>2667990
>cunt
glad that brittish faggot overdosed on 22 shots at strip club, will make sure to skip the funerals. Hope it was your dad by the way

>>2667995
Could say the same then about you being all ngl and lmao like some bitch ass zoomer coward. Dont expect any help after that line for next 20 years, youre done

>>2662342
>maoist guerrilla

Was this in India? You were talking to a Naxalite?

>>2663550
I’m always amused by people who say American cities are the most dangerous when they ventured into the ghettoest hood imaginable. People who venture past Midtown in Detroit, or Kensington in Philly, South Central/Skid Row in LA. With the exception of Jackson, Mississippi, all the American cities mentioned in this thread have thriving pleasant areas, just don’t be a retard and wander into the hood

>>2665529
I walked from the bus station on the outskirts of Timisoara to the city center and passed by what I presume are either gypsies or old babushka type ladies selling stuff and no one bothered me even through I was tugging a suitcase for 30 minutes. Never had a bad experience in Eastern Europe and their women indeed are gorgeous

>>2667367
Tijuana strikes me as a bootleg version of Downtown Vegas mixed with New Orleans

>>2667428
I’m sick of retards claiming New York is dangerous, when it’s literally one of the safest big cities in the US

>>2668255
Yeah.

You can't really avoid running into Naxal sympathizers and militia members in certain parts of rural Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and Jharkhand. Good examples of heavily-affected districts include:
>Dantewada, Bijapur, and Narayanpur districts in Chhattisgarh
>West Singhbhum and Latehar in Jharkhand (with the areas west of Chaibasa, especially around Goilkera, probalby being some of the most volatile outside of Bastar Division)
>Malkangiri in Odisha
... and so on and so forth.

Having said that, I have no interest in actively engaging with the Maoists. Don't have any beef with them--it's just not the sort of issue that anyone, let alone outsiders, should involve themselves in.

Point here is this: a lot of the areas I listed off are naturally very beautiful, and are home to some of the most interesting and unique tribal/Adivasi cultures in all of India. Foreign tourists should visit, and there is actually a rapidly-growing "homestay" industry in Bastar Division that is centered on sustainable tourism in and around indigenous communites.

But if you spend enough time in those places and get to know the locals, you do end up going--and getting taken to--places that are a little more dicey. And it still isn't that unsafe, provided you have some common sense and a basic understanding of conflict patterns and territorial control (e.g., most Maoist-affected districts in Chhattisgarh--and all of those in Bastar--are controlled by the main Communist Party of India-Maoist, which remains a predominately ideological organization thah does not intentionally or opportunistically target outsiders. But many Maoist-affected distrcts in Jharkhand are, at the very least, under the influence of CPI-Maoist splinter groups--basically bandits and gangsters in uniform, who would probably kidnap a retarded YT if they got the chance).

>>2661081
Iceland
While having a shower I shorted out the house I was staying in, my phone had no Icelandic SIM so couldn't use it, and my car (electric) didn't have enough charge to go anywhere
Thankfully I fixed it before it got too cold

The next day I almost fell into a massive waterfall because I didn't tie my boots properly lol

>>2668562
>t. can't flip a fucking switch

>>2668612
The issue was it wouldn't stay flipped up

>>2662278
I entered through Columbia, Puerto Carrenho, went south on the Venezuelan side and planned to go to Cocuy Rock on the Venezuelan side, at Puerto Ayacucho I knew I was days away to be mugged if not worse so returned to Columbia to Inirida. Met some Indians who took me to the rock later.

I crossed the tri-point into Cocuy in Brasil, got a boat hike to Sao Gabriel do Cachoeira and from there it's back to semi-civilization and paid a boat bus to Manaus. Then returned via the Amazon to Leticia

Phenomenal true Amazonian experience

>>2668906
What year was this?

Did you have plans to see anything else in Venezuela? If not, I'm curious why you chose Piedra del Cocuy instead of just staying in Colombia and seeing Mavecure Hills. Either way I'm jealous of your travels here, even if they were disrupted. I've been as far east in Colombia as a few hours outside of Yopal and as far south as Leticia but there's much more in between I'd love to visit, not to mention Venezuela.

>>2669040

2014-2015

I was obsessed with Cocuy Rock because of 2 reasons: the geographical location (FYI, I quickly realized is not a perfect tripoint, its entirely within Venezuela) and the fact that is one of the last truly inaccessible hallmarks in the world. The indians told me that an European (German or Austrian) tried to start tours in the 70s but didnt work out. The urban (jungle?) legend is that he died in a plane crash around the area. Point is the Guainia is way more inaccessible, wild and unpopulated that the Amazon river, where you can see human presence in its banks every 30 mins on a ship

Mavecure Hills, while still quite pristine, its already a tourist destination. Sure, its far and not crowded but in the end is a regular tour experience: You pay money and you go there, period.

Cocuy Rock has no regular access. To go there I had to live in Inirida for weeks, socialize with the Indians and convince them to adopt me for a trip

Long story short, Indians get some small gimmedats from Col/Ven/Bra (all of them have the 3 nationalities) and with minimal fishing/hunting/farming they cant live with no issues. They are not rich, but not destitute as well. So in the end, they have A LOT of free time. What they do to pass the time is to have conferences in Inirida and other larger towns and arrange pick ups in the middle of the jungle with weeks if not months in advance. Not even satellite phones work there so when you meet in person you need to arrange all details and hope the other person doesnt forget the hour and date.

I got them to welcome me in one of their return trips to their resguardos after a conference in Inirida. It was a week-length trip between canoes, tractors, boats to drop every guy in the middle of the jungle, my own version of Heart of the Darkness. The last guy lived in El Porvenir, the last Columbian hut before the triborder.

Happy to answer more questions

>>2667920
>your diplomatic incompetency
I am neither of the anons you are responding too but this is just wrong. It was Polands diplomatic incompetency which led them to become a Soviet satellite state. First they tried to play the Soviets and Nazis off of eachother and when that failed allied with the British despite the fact Britain at no time was ever capable of actually helping Poland; a country wedged in the middle of two rival nations both with larger armies than the British.

Since you are so fond of Germany we should have just let them conquer you to begin with

>>2669203

Appreciate you typing all of that up. Makes a lot more sense now given the context. Makes me think there are probably a number of places in the more remote parts of Venezuela that have that would involve a 21st century version of Heart of Darkness to reach. Beyond Roraima and Angel Falls nothing really even comes to mind in the interior of the country that anyone seeks out.

I was living in Colombia in 2015 and always kicked myself for not going to Venezuela while I was there but I guess even then it was really sketchy if you didn't feel confident going beyond Puerto Ayacucho although border towns aren't always the most upstanding parts of any country. I'm American so even then I still think I would have needed to go to Bogota and go through the process of getting a visa which is obviously a deterrent.

Got any pictures? Any other kinds of travel like that in South America?

>>2661081
Gary, Indiana.

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>>2669344
>Got any pictures?

I took a lot of photos with my phone... which was stolen in Manaus.

I also traveled with a small tablet (Samsung Galaxy miniTab 3, those were the days...) which I used as a reader and sometimes took a couple pics. So instead of having a thousand pics of landcapes, frens and a few grills to reminisce about, I have about 10-15 very bad pics (half of them taken by kids playing with the tablet) as my only evidence.

So yeah, thats the best photo I have of the damn Piedra del Cocuy. I was there, I walked for 2 days with some hunters (2 brothers and the kid of one of them) who were bored enough with their lives to take me there. We had to cross to the Venezuelan side in secret at 4am because the Guardia guys threatened to shoot me if they say me there because I didnt have a visa and they were in their god-given right of patrolling the area. They were never gonna leave their barracks, but still meant we had to cross the Guainia a couple kilometers off just in case.

We walked in the middle of the jungle, with no real tracks, except in a few areas were there were some communal farms. The walk was painful and slow for me because my feet were tangling at every step with roots and branches. Sometimes the brothers had to machete away a clearance, sometimes we just went right in the middle of the bushes.

When it was time to sleep the brothers built a very basic shelter with banana leaves and hung a mosquito net. I saw a huge track next to me and ask them it it was safe. They said it was a Jaguar and I told them if we should move. They laughed and said that Jaguars werent stupid enough to come near humans and they wouldnt miss their chance to shoot that one if it was still around. In the middle of the night I woke up screaming feeling like I had been shot. I felt an ant biting me. When I told them the indians got alarmed for the first time and told me to show it to them. Nah, thats not an ant to be concerned about, relax and go to sleep again.

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>>2670266
The next day we kept walking but it was a bit rainy was way darker and I got way more tired. At some point I realized we were walking way slower and I was about to faint until our path pretty much ended and it was fully dark.

>We have arrived anondo, thats the rock
>What do you mean? There is nothing here
>Dude, we have been climbing the rock for like half an hour

I walked a little more upwards. It seemed less that 5 meters, but it took me 10 minutes, so thick the vegetation was. Because of an unspoken traveler code, the indians didnt joined or helped me. Using the machete was pointless. I crawled as best as I could while getting scratches over my face and body. It was so dark, I felt like a earthworm tunneling my way out. At some point the soil under me was replaced with rock and I started to see some lights beyond the trees. I was finally able to open the last layer of vegetation like a curtain. I got blinded initially but then I SAW it.

Dear anondo in /trv/, it has been 10 years but that will always be the most kino moment in my life. I was on top of the canopy. I could see the jungle for miles. Right in front of me was the rest of the Rock, and it would have take me forever to actually climb it (note the photo, you see theres no vegetation). The rock is pretty much an iceberg, the unseen part is way bigger than the visible part. Opening the canopy also meant a lot of water came through. What I thought was a drizzle at floor level was actually a deluge outside. I only had less than a minute before I had to go back. My only evidence of being at the rock was a photo of my hand on it, now forever lost thanks to the thieves in Manaus.

We started the way back. After felling they have done their part the brothers left me to go hunting wild boars. Only then I realized why they had bring the kid, he was responsible for guiding me safe back to the canoe. At some points he had to hold me by the hand because I was about to faint. He wasn't older than 12.

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>>2670266
>>2670267
Im the worst photographer in the planet lmao

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One of our stops.

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I was in SEA years before this and all the kids were already familiar with phones and where playing Angry Birds. The kids here had no idea what a tablet was

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Ruins of a Spanish fort built in the XVIIs. The Indians said the Guardia crossed the river in the 70s and stole the few cannons that were still laying around

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_del_Fuerte_de_San_Felipe

>>2661398
what the fuck

>>2661398
Sounds like Philadelphia

this thread is scarier than the entirety of /x/

>>2661087
He was chasing you out as a signal for get out of here?

>>2661081
I stayed in a super sketchy hostel in Inglewood, Las Angeles when I was 18. My first day there I was accosted by a guy with very busted up knuckles who seemed like he was on some wild drugs. After some uncomfortable conversation he offered to go get some weed from his room to share with me and a soon as he left I hid in my room the rest of the night lol. The next morning while I waited for the airport shuttle the cops came in cause somebody's bike and backpack were stolen. Fun times.

For reference, I've spent time in Bangkok, Tijuana, and Kuala Lumpur and none felt nearly as dangerous.

>>2670434
He didn't want me there at all no. He was pissed, possibly thinking I was looking for artefacts, this place was so untouched by excavation teams there was broken pieces of ancient ceramic on the ground.

>>2670435
>Kuala Lumpur
lmao what is remotely dangerous about KL?

>>2666749
>You never go to strip clubs
>et you drunk or spike you, steal your credit card, and do all kinds of shit
wahh wahh I had the best strip club experience of my life in krakow. hot dirty horny women, kino ass fuck-rooms with pillows and mats. maybe it helped that I speak Polish though.

>>2670623
>this place was so untouched by excavation teams there was broken pieces of ancient ceramic on the ground.
sounds pretty cool.

>>2665502
One of the few times Id recommended airbnb but a small house in the Irish Channel is 10/10. Walk to Commanders Palace for brunch, take a paseo through the cemetery across the way afterwards. Walk around Magazine St on your way back. Peak travel kino.

>>2661271
I never had a problem with the dogs in Pattaya who all seemed very tame (the ones in the city probably get fed a lot by tourists and street food vendors) but I got followed by one in a sketchy quiet part of Bangkok once, it kept following me for a couple streets with almost nobody around, I just heard the sound of its steps but I didn't want to acknowledge its presence, I hoped it would get bored and leave me alone if I just ignored it, until at one point it got really close to my ankles so I stopped and looked over my shoulder to see what it was doing (I didn't wanna get randomly bit)
it immediately went into defensive mode, jumped backward and started growling and barking, which scared me shitless
thankfully some elderly local woman sitting by the front of a nearby house started yelling at it and motioning at me to get on my way, and it eventually left me alone

tl;dr : I got very spooked by a soi dog and had to be rescued by a small old woman

>>2670266
>>2670267
I'm not going to (You) every post but thanks for sharing quite the read
the poisonous ant situation though I could never do - better to live up north in the boreal forest

>>2670953
My mom was a nurse in Thailand in the Airforce. A soldier on the base got bit by a dog and didn't tell anyone. He started showing rabies symptoms and went in to get treated, but by then, it was too late. My mom says that in her 45 years as an ER nurse, it was the most painful and agonizing death she had ever seen.

>>2661336
that's funny there are also trannies there who will curbstomp you for being from cleveland. I think it's an ohio thing

>>2671142
it wasnt even a poisonous ant it just bit me in the middle of the night lmao

>>2671414
are trans people actually capable of curb stomping a grown ass man? How strong are they? Also is it coz of their hormone treatments and other drugs?
Legit question, if they're so jacked up, do you need a pepper ball gun or not. The key should be safety at all times, regardless of who is at same street.

>>2661440
>I got daily security updates in my e-mail about known villains who had been seen in town
Lmao please elaborate

>>2672544
>>2672544
>I got daily security updates in my e-mail about known villains who had been seen in town
>Lmao please elaborate
It’s honestly not particularly interesting, and I forget most of the details. Big announcements would be stuff like imams from the provinces known to have anti-government (AKA pro-Taliban) views coming to preach at local mosques, or newly arrived groups of rural youth suspected (maybe known/identified Taliban? I don’t actually know where our head of security got his intel from, but he was a retired British special forces somebody or other, and I guess he had friends still on active duty in the various occupying armed forces, maybe also among the spooks) of planning to blow themselves up. Just about the only announcements with individual names attached were moderately famous preachers and provincial politicians/warlords who were known to have beef with one another. People who might either be planning to do something bad or be potential targets. We were also sometimes told when government events were going on that we should avoid. Not that I had opportunities to wander into any wrong place at the wrong time—I wasn’t allowed to walk in the streets or take taxis.

>>2672879
Interesting
>I am a little embarrassed to have gone when and how I did
Why's that?

>>2672952
Well, because the NGO work I was involved in, while very well-intentioned and in some respects really positive, was also extremely expensive and dependent for long-term sustainability on the survival of the Afghan state that the Americans (and allies) were trying to build, which was corrupt and dysfunctional almost from the outset, and shouldn’t have been attempted in the first place.

The state wasn’t all bad—a lot of good local people liked it and benefited from it, especially women and young people, and health and education outcomes, among other positive things, both got dramatically better for a while. But it never really functioned, in part because a lot of scumbags (“he’s a warlord, but he’s our warlord”) just got fat on stolen foreign money. Meanwhile, local poor people stayed poor, and the evil ones that the new system was supposed to replace just got angrier and better at capitalizing on the frustrations of those who got left behind. So eventual failure was more or less inevitable, and when failure came, it wasted (just in the case of the outfit I worked for) tens of millions of dollars, along with wiping out nearly all of the positive impacts we and colleagues were able to achieve. More importantly, it let down, and in some cases perilously endangered, a whole lot of good people we were theoretically trying to help.

>>2667690
Then everyone stood up and clapped

>>2667572
Yeah people will say Philly is the worst place they've ever been and you ask what neighborhoods they went to and they say center city, south Philly and university city

>>2662323

I mean, did you think they were driving you around for free? You should have asked them the price at the beginning anon. That's was your mistake, but I'm not blaming you because the woman knew exactly what she was doing. Good for you that you ran away, I think I would have just chicken out and paid them to avoid any problem.

>>2673247
I feel that. I spent almost 5 years of my life getting the air traffic systems up and running in Afghanistan only for most of it to get obliterated when the taliban took control again.

We trained a bunch of their controllers and civil pilots too, some of who fled the country because they worked with the Americans. A couple of them were tortured, but never heard from any of them ever again besides that.

Years of my life wasted.

>>2673403
You have my deepest sympathy. It wasn’t my project, but one of the most tragic things some of my colleagues were working on was rebuilding/upgrading the emergency medical system in Kabul; part of it involved training women surgeons and ER doctors. For a tiny little window the project (which was underway for more than ten years in total) was literally saving people’s lives.

Poof. All gone.

>>2661081
I cycled to Eastern and Southern Ukraine a few months ago.

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>>2673377
As of May 2024, Philadelphia has the highest violent crime rate among the top 10 American cities with a population of more than 1 million people

>>2661081
Oakland in the 80s, Kingston in '92. I loved Jamaica but Kingston was iffy AF.

>>2665545
i wish i got to meet yakub

>>2661081
Tegucigalpa, Honduras. I was a medical translator for a couple weeks and our security guard was a former gang member. I asked him if he’d walk me out into the street so I could take some photos. After a few minutes he started looking around all nervous and said something like “ok let’s wrap it up, I’m not bulletproof.” He later told me he didn’t want to scare me but the area had been ransacked by MS-13 just a couple days before and some people in the very place we were working out of were taken and presumably killed. Cool cool cool thanks

Rookie traveller here doing Europe currently, I'm a pretty stocky guy and have no qualms getting in a fight but I don't want my shit stolen, if I fight back will they just knife me?

I guess what I am asking is how to avoid these general situations, and what to do if one arises.

>desu I wouldn't mind to be in a couple of situations as it would be character building

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>>2667428
>>2668279
Maybe he was there before 1992

I hopped on the Cape Town bus and toured the townships outside of the city

>>2662980
Literally electric Jurassic park fences. Such a sign of progress!

>>2667974
Imagine sleeping on a bunk bed in Poland. You must be from 4th world to cheap out on accomodation here. Also Ukrainians snitched on you? Skinheads called you a fag? Where the fuck have you been and who the fuck are you? You must have come to Sosnowiec as a gay nigger with blue greasy hair to be treated that bad. Never come here again because we don't need such lowlife scum.

>>2661158
>>2665502
True story here - My sister lived on Frenchman, at the little intersection with the Lebanese place and the corner store run by the Korean lady. So she's getting fired/leaving because she's bipolar and unstable.
But before we pack her car, she has to give me the fucking tour. We saw the ancient catholic church on the square, some one legged diabetic dude playing country music, zero jazz, and literal heaps of debris from Katrina. Like 6 years later, and there's still 3 to 4 foot tall piles of debris just in lawns and fields. She wanted to go to a witchery shop run by a skinny white girl in a halloween costume. Everything is made in china, and half the merch is either Hot Topic spill over, or rebranded Yankee candles. No greetings, no real voodoo, no hoodoo. It was sad.
Then we had to go get food. I wanted a poor boy sandwhich, because I had never had one before and figured I'd like to try reigonal American cuisine - very America, much patriotism, so local economy. wow.
We are in the newly made 1800s buildings (fake antiques), and the place has no door. It's a literal arch in the wall. And she orders a burn ass french bread pizza mistake.
A woman in, I shit you not, an aloha shirt and shorts runs in and screams to the visibily depressed cashier, "I've just been mugged!"
No one gives a shit. It's normal. They stole her medical bag off of a scooter or something.

NOLA was a sad, humid, depressing place with zero charm. It's a decaying theme park on life support.
If I had the option, I would have headed west to the actual French speaking real cajun areas. Fuck New Orleans.

>>2670384
>Fuses going out
>Sleeping in bunkbeds
>Dogs
>Electric fences
>Detours due to accidents
>Drinking beers in resorts
Pretty spooky shit

>>2676964
They have guns, you stupid nigger.
Stay away from all racial minorities and poor white people.
When in trouble, RUN. Lots of people in the US have nothing to lose.

>>2676964
>stocky guy
>no qualms in a fight
>if i fight back
Stop being a faggot. You don't get in fights in foreign places. There's literally 0 upside. You have 0 fucking idea what kinda shit you're getting into.

If you're worried about your shit getting stolen, you're carrying above your means. Only carry what you're willing to part with when you're traveling, and make sure your documents and money have failsafes.

The only reason to bring along expensive tech is if you have a specific work need, and if that's the case, you shouldn't be staying in poorfag accommodation.

If someone tries to rob you, you prioritise your life. Imagine if there's a 5% chance you get stabbed the fuck up and you're carrying $300 of gear. If you wanna act the hard man, it means you value your life at $60,000.

>>2676964
First of all, you aren't getting mugged unless you are stupid to the point that you actually deserve it. Secondly, the only people that would mug you would be gypsies or black/brown people and fighting back will mean you get jumped and/or knifed. If you are in the 0.001% of people stupid enough to get mugged then it isn't happening in a confrontation, it'll either be done without you knowing or phone snatching from a bike. You won't even get a chance to build character aka get your shit kicked in.

Behind the fancy facade on a popular Thai nightclub street when I was looking for a toilet. It was just Thai gangsters doing cocaine and fucking each other in the ass

>>2663289
You faggot, I went through St Dennis last week heading to BVA to fly to Italy.
St Dev is perfectly safe, it's got heavy tourist foot traffic and therefore security due to being an airport coach hub, bus station, and underground rail station, plus servicing the university.

If you felt scared there then you must really be a little bitch boy.

>>2663619
Skill issue

>>2665545
Pakistanis will just treat you like royalty if you're white. They will tell you. Bonus points for blue eyes and blonde hair of course.
I had armed police escorts following the bus I'm in. Armed security people following me for safety.
You be friendly with the locals and you can do just about everything there. Ask questions, accept their hospitality and they'll unironically kill for you. It's also dirt cheap.

probably parts of north Africa that suffered islanization.
I've lived in bandit country, know the vor, the juntas, the cartels but youknow for the greater part those guys have jobs, have income, have families and responsibilities.

the most dangerous people are drug addicts, jihadists, drug addicts flirting with jihad.they'll attack a random person for no reason, even when they wouldn't win,even when it wouldn't make sense.

the guys who just run up toyou with knives yelling about mohamed, they've got something to prove, they're mostly show,no combat experience, they might tryto cut you but the second things aren't going the way they imagined they try to back out. throw them a curve ball and they forget about the jihad thing, suddenly they're just embarrassed in front of of onlookers. ilaughed at this guys shoes and he tried to cut me, minor injury, laughed at his shoes again and spagetti fell out of his pocket and a crowd roasted him until he tried to cut me again and people told him to go home.

but these other guys, theyre psychos who are unemployed, flirt with petty crime, theyll put serious effort into gaining the upper hand before they come at you. they might trap you in a vehicle, trick you into entering an enclosed space, they actually want to kill you. and when you have a brush with these guys they just smile and insist you get in the car.you'll never get anything from them, you can't deal with them on a human level you've got to treat them like they are objects. its very common they stalk you, and locals don't know how to stop them stalking you, even if everyone knows whats going on these people just smile and press on with whatever they plsn on doing. and if its not going to work they just smile and walk off.

>>2661081
Manila, Philippines having been an outsider to the homeland for most of my life. Was at a bar with cousins and got really hammered. Apparently started conversations with women and was going well and was whisked away by my cousin- was apaprently talking to the local gang-affiliated women and didn't notice the owner of the bar and his cronies wanting to stab me. I forgot I cannot trust anything outside of the USA and assumed all was safe in entertainment estalishments. When I sobered did I realize my predicament then and was more careful with nightlife after that.

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>>2661083
>>2661103
>>2661345
>>2662323
Are you guys white? Do you really solo travel to 3rd world shitholes and mosey through their ghettos? I grew up around ghettos, and I can be pretty ballsy, but I would want some tight knit white bros to back me up if I went to any places like that. I'm not walking through a hood in Africa or LatAm in the middle of the night without someone watching my back. Fuck that.

Low level thrills TANGIER
In the 1990s I backpacked through Europe for three months. Travelled to Tangier with this German dude I met along the way. On the first day we fell for the well known ruse: Kid says to us You are very lucky today the camel traders come to town (or similar) I will give you a tour of the medina! Kid eventually leads us to family rug shop. Older cousins or brothers standing around. I my memory one of them has a gluck knife. We say we're students (true) and don't have any money to buy rugs. That was it. I was staying in Tangier for a week but my buddy took a train trip to the mountains. One morning he's on the hotel stoop telling me his backpack was stolen from his arms while he was sleeping on the train. I loaned him some cash and he invited me to stay at his apartment in Munich.

Spooky SPAIN Same trip I travelled for a while with this Canadian Keanu Reeves type dude in Spain. We stayed in some kind of pensione in an ancient castle and our room had two beds no windows. We both woke up bolt upright at the same time having both dreamed some levitation nightmare. We left the next morning.

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Friendly panhandler NYC
About ten years ago. NYC mid morning SoHo shopping street but vacant of people, weekend. Guy asks hey can you spare some cash? I gave him $2 For some reason I thought he would snatch my wallet from my hand. He says $2 ?? He says Just got out of jail, I don't wanna have to do something (by which I thought he meant rob a store or something, I didn't think he was gonna harm me). I said Hey man that's not fair I only had twenties after that so I give him a twenty. He says Make it forty? I said ok that's all though. He gives me a big hug saying I knew you were a good man.

Fake Buddhist priest OSAKA
At the pedestrian bridge from Dotonbori near the running man sign. With my mum, around lunchtime. This was 2011 not many gaijin around. A "Buddhist priest " slips a wooden bead bracelet on our wrists and shows us a donation book for help building / renovating a temple. Photos of temple etc. book has lined pages with people's names and how much cash they have donated. This much! He says pointing to entry for ¥20,000. This was about $200. Counting on our confusion with number of zeros and fear of offence, I handed over two big notes. Only realising later that priests wouldn't panhandle in this manner. I felt superstitious about keeping the wooden bead bracelets so placed them ceremoniously on a big rock in a temple garden. Later read this scam occurred elsewhere including Sydney Australia.

>>2680766
>gluck knife
Flick knife (not Glock either)

>>2661121
>>2661133
When I came back from a deployment to the middle east the first time our rotator went through Baltimore and I got two nights. Found this free used bookstore place I decided to go check out. Went to take a bus there and it was packed full, and I was the only white dude. It straight up went through The Wire and the stop I had to get off at was literal barred up window liquor stores and boarded up window ghetto. I will say gentrification there is crazy, I went from that neighborhood full of basketball americans in traditional attire to the John Hopkins University neighborhood of argyle sweater vests in what felt like no time.

Tldr I went from the middle east to an actual war zone like Baltimore.

>>2677186
This. I got mugged by a little homeless goblin in Bogota, I'm 6'4" and /fit/ so I could have easily fucked him up. All he wanted was my cash (like 30$) and didn't want my phone or my pack or anything. If I had kicked his ass I'd have to either fight off maybe more goblinos, pay a bribe to the cops who see me beating a local (would cost WAY more than 30$ I'm sure), or I get nicked by his rusty knife and I have to go to hospital to make sure I don't catch some fucking jungle disease.

I tell my coworkers I got mugged on the trip and they're a bunch of redneck faggots so of course they say "oh I would have kicked his ass," like they're rambo when in reality they are basically just fat wage slave tradies.

>>2661345
Can't even escape American tipping culture in Africa

>>2677165
Everywhere in USA is like that due to the police being hamstrung to police and the homeless ruling the streets. You pay to price out the poor just like in south Africa

>>2661081
london UK

>>2661081

Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Was at a conference and when on the way to go home, my colleague and I were in an airport shuttle that was stopped by a military checkpoint right before the entrance to the airport.

A soldier got on the shuttle and ordered us to get out and made us put our hands behind our heads and kneel in front of a wall littered with bullet holes, probably from the civil war back in the day.

Turns out they just wanted to demand a bribe to get into the airport, all I had was 5USD but that apparently was more than plenty for the soldiers and they became really friendly with us after that and gave us an escort up to the airport terminal in a town car.

It was bizarre, more than dangerous I guess. My colleague and I are white, so I wasn't all that scared to be honest. I knew we weren't getting executed in front of an international airport in South Asia.

>>2661081
Not actually dangerous, but I went to Bulgaria at the peak of covid. After the initial taxi drive from the airport which was with a really cool guy, I hated every second of it. Every time I went outside some gypsie would scream "GIVE ME MONEY GIVE ME MONEY", at night random fat women would come up to me "I have no money", eating lamb (which is my favorite meat) at a top 3 hotel gave me severe food poisoning.

I hate bulgaria with all my heart, but love their neighbors. Gypsie and nigger conquered shithole. Best of luck to their people tho, genuine bulgars deserve the best.

>>2666885
Shut the fuck up faggot, you don't know anything about the naxalite insurgents.
There's a terror incident every few months, the state has basically shut down tourism and provides military security to resorts, very few tourists go there because the whole region is red listed in travel guides.

Drug abuse and human trafficking are major issues, people walk around the street on drugs, alcoholism is a problem in the villages, syringes everywhere, for tourists the issue is less the insurgents (because there aren't many) and more the violent drug addicts and the breakdown of ordinary services.

And depending on who you are, the naxalites might take issue with you.

>>2680766
sounds like kino travel times, anon

>>2681078
sorry but i don't believe you. I've walked from my hotel to that airport plenty of times. Nice larp tho

>>2680672
lol holy cow you are so full of shit what are you even saying

>>2680780
That's the thing about Baltimore. There are very segregated neighborhoods where it goes from safe to warzone in one street. I felt much safer in the nice neighborhoods in Baltimore than I ever did in any area of Philadelphia. The crime in Philly is fucking everywhere, on every street, in broad daylight. I've never been to another city like Philly where nowhere felt safe. The crime statistics in downtown Philly are shocking.

>>2677368
Bullshit. You can mugged and stabbed in the middle of the day in Paris, London or Brussels any day of the week. The crime is out of control in those cities.

>>2681475
t. Everything about the world outside my mom's basement I learned from /pol/

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> visiting America from Norway
> have long lost relatives in Wisconsin that imigrated here back in 1910
They live in a Norwegian enclave of sorts
> get an Uber from the airport to my hotel up town
> from there hop on a greyhound bus, then get picked up by relatives
> my uber's name is Fred
> at red light when random Black man runs up to Fred's window and attempts to car jack him at gunpoint
> Fred floors it through the red light
> random nig hold on for dear life
> still holding his gun and onto fred
> nig begging for Uber Fred to stop
> Fred speeds up and tells him to let go
> nig threatens to kill Fred if he doesn't stop
> Fred goes hell nah nigga you going for a ride bitch
> Fred is going 50kpm and sides swipes the nig against a parked car scrapping him off like used gum
> nig is crumpled up definitely hurt badly as we leave him in the streets
> Fred looks back at me and goes sorry about that that normally doesn't happen often
> this was his 2nd car jacking in the past year
> rebook my flight to leave Milwaukee instead of Chicago
> I had been in America for only a few hours and already had an attempted armed robbery

New Orleans. I have family there, and after living somewhere else, I was struck by how much a shithole and simply dysfunctional the city was.

Aside from the usual areas full of the disciples of St. Floyd in the US, probably parts of Mexico and Egypt.
All these people having scary experiences in Costa Rica were either being retarded or doing something they shouldn’t have.

>>2682072
Fred is based asf I hope you gave him 5 stars

Jackson is the only one here I'm surprised to see, I don't know why you would want to visit. That's like going to East Orange or Camden, total shit holes with nothing for tourists.

>>2682336
I did rate him a 5. He did stop an armed robber after all.

>>2681473
Your just making that up mate. There are plenty of gentrified and low crime neighborhoods in philly. It's very easy to avoid the nigged out areas
I don't think you have ever been here.

Never been to many sketchy places. Sweden was kinda iffy with so many black groups just casually standing around in public and selling drugs.
>Russia
Almost got into a fight with security guards at a mall.
>Croatia
Some bar owner or manager wanted to fight also.

Staying at the tourist park in a cabin on my own. Chilling out drinking wine. Midnight decide to take the empty bottle out to the communal bins. Freezing winters night. Wake up in cold sweat: what if I had forgotten my door key? I would have been stranded until the office opened in the morning. But I hadn't locked myself out. And if I had I would have had to be zen about it and appreciate the forest.

>>2661336
Yep. This is my hometown.
If you go walking anywhere downtown do yourself a favor and bring a wireless hole puncher with you. Those little niggers can't fight so they attack people in packs.

Btw next time instead of honking just treat them like a speed bump

>>2682355
Every time I read in a thread where multiple people mention how terrible the crime in Philadelphia is, or how the city felt unsafe, someone inevitably jumps in and says "it's easy to avoid being mugged," or some variation of that. I'll give you Philadelphia guys credit, your mental gymnastics are impressive. What is it about people in Philadelphia where they have this deep sense of denial? If it's so safe, why are there so many murders and violent crimes? Do you think that the police just making the numbers up?

>>2682437
Croatia??? LOL. Besides maybe Slovenia next door, they have the lowest violent crime rate in the western world.

>>2665502
It's rough but not the worst, certain neighborhoods are pretty bad. Stay near Frenchman, assuming thats where you plan to hang out? Bourbon street sucks but go see it once, to say you did, stop by Cafe du Monde and do the tourist stuff early in the day. Ride a steamboat and tell me how it went, that was the one thing I wanted to do but didn't get to.

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>>2680757
100% these people did not grow up. n the ghetto and humanize all people to be exactly like the group they were raised around ( Honest, Trustworthy, Non-violent). Its obvious in how these people just go to other places and expect the same treatment as where theyre from, misunderstanding human nature as suburban behavior. 90% of humans grew up in a ghetto and probably hate you as an outsider if you give one shred of weakness. Just be very confident and impress them or don't go. Simple as. Its a prison planet.

>>2682675
That's why I said I haven't been to any sketchy places and just posted about the incidents I had. Fuck Croatia though, the people were pieces of shits and thought they were tough for smoking all the time with cancers growing all on their necks.

I got hit by a car in albinia

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>>2661345
>Mombasa
Bring back the ghost and the darkness

I can't asses how dangerous this really was but some Americans please tell me.

Basically I'm Euro and I once walked through LA skid row just to experience the bottom of the barrel USA and downfall of the American society.
By that point I've heard many stories from LA people of drugged zombies killing someone out of nowhere, but it was during the day so it wasn't the worst feeling but quite uncomfortable.

Then during night I drove off the highway in LA to check something on my phone. It was close to center so I thought it will be fine but oh boy. I drove off and immediately realized this is some fucked up area, no cars dark and trashed, but I thought whatever I'll just quickly check my phone and parked in a calm dark sketchy ass street with not a single human in sight.
Suddenly, looking in the mirror, I see a drugged zombie humping into my direction.
I check maps to the see where the fuck i am, and I realize accidently drove off the highway into the middle of skid row at night.
Looking at the mirror the zombie is already almost at the car, my heart starts racing like never before and quickly put on a route in maps to get back to the highway, turn on the engine and drive off.

American cities, have this uncanny feeling during the night because there's just so many lone psychos, zombies and straight up criminals roaming around.

Is my experience something every American experiences or how far did I push it?

Philadelphia and New Orleans are both pretty rough. Parts of Cleveland are also unnerving, even in the daytime. I felt legitimately unsafe in Philly, rolling into the Amtrak station looks like you're entering a warzone wasteland. I've traveled through Mexico and the most unsafe I ever felt was in Philly, you'll get people staring at you if you drive through certain neighborhoods as a white person even in the middle of the day. The city looks burnt the fuck out, there's zombie fentanyl addicts everywhere, trash everywhere. I've been all over the USA and Philly is definitely the worst I have seen, anywhere in the world so far.

>>2686519
>Is my experience something every American experiences or how far did I push it?
Americans are more accustomed to the visual cues that go along with a shithole neighborhood before getting as far as you did.

>>2686531
Same, I've been all over Latin America but Philly was scary and felt like I was constantly being set up for a robbery.

>>2686531
>rolling into the Amtrak station looks like you're entering a warzone wasteland
I've just looked at it on google maps it doesn't look half as bad as what you're saying.

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>>2682673
>>2686531
>>2686542
>Grown men pissing themselves in center city as Catholic school girls walk by unbothered
Classic /trv/

>>2685239
was it a mercedes with german license plates

>>2686734
Let me school you. Criminals typically don't mess with kids. Anyone who's been to prison knows that you don't fuck with kids. The kids are the only ones who are safe. Philadelphia is a rough city filled with assholes, thieves, drug addicts and lawless nogs. You may ne used to it, but you're delusional if you think it's a safe city. I've been all over the world and it's one of the worst cities I've ever been to.

This is gonna seem really dumb, but Akron Ohio. I had a friend who lived in the ghetto there and every time I went to visit I wasn't sure if I was going to get jumped or shot. On two separate occasions when I stopped at the local gas station a group of guys started walking up to my car from multiple directions so I just took off because fuck that shit. My friend's house got robbed 5 times in 2 years, always gun shots going off. Child trafficking is also apparently pretty bad there. What made my friend and her husband finally leave is that a friend of theirs that lived in the area put them at gunpoint and stole all their guns and valuables in their house, he knew where everything was. They were friends with him for years but it seems like it was all just a ruse so he could find and keep track of where they kept their valuables. They moved after that.

>>2686734
#2 is wife material

>almost every big city in ohio someone has said in the thread
kek are ohio cities really that bad?

>>2676964
I’d be much less worried about getting in a fight with a random euro punk and much more worried about getting arrested and having the state throw the book at you because you’re a violent foreigner

>>2686849
Sketchy behavior is rampant in Ohio. Very low trust, people sizing you up as a potential threat all the time. Lots of white aggression. Most incidents don't result in violent crime, but it's absolutely not a state where people leave their car unlocked or the window down, ever.

>>2686558
What you see from the tracks is very different from what you see from the road. Traveling America by train is eye-opening. Road frontage is prime real estate, train frontage is the real America.

Eastern and Southern Ukraine, for obvious reasons.

Extremely tame answer cuz I'm a sheltered middle class American. I visited a friend who went to grad school at St Louis U shortly before covid happened. North County St Louis and East St Louis IL are the sketchiest places I've been. Stopped in East St Louis to get gas in a shitty 10 year old rental car and had crackheads eyeing us until a cop slowly drove past and then parked and waited for the 25yo white couple to get out of there safely. Good chance we'd have been mugged or carjacked if that cop didn't roll past. East St Louis is 95% black and has to be half drug addicts. It had almost 100k people sixty years ago and now has maybe 1/4 of that. Like Detroit but worse.

North County St Louis includes Ferguson where the riots happened when that black high school kid robbed a convenience store then attacked a cop and got shot. It looked like a bomb hit it. Crumbling brick buildings and drug addict zombies everywhere. People standing on street corners like Barksdale's crew from The Wire looking at us driving by wondering why a young white couple would be there. Would never go back to either. Absolute shitholes. Later in that trip we were talking to a black patrol officer at a 711 who told us we were either brave or idiots for going to both places and we shouldn't go back for our own safety

>>2663970
Tour is seriously so worth it, seriously, fuck youtubers, fuck riding a motorcycle around the streets, I want to see Petra, live another day, go home.

>>2661081
>everyone from /trv/ experience traveling in America, translate the English to whatever language it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MzDA77sJk4

https://old.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/r9gtml/what_are_the_most_dangerous_feeling_places_you/
Was this thread dead internet theory bot shit or just OP bumping by copy-pasting reddit answers?

>>2661081
not travel, because I avoid actual dangerous places
BUT
I coordinate logistics (for multiple Non Profit Organizations) as Job

the next ones are from my Job (which technically is travel too)

>in Port au Prince, Haiti in Summer 2022
our car got stopped by "military" and a few minutes later we were inside a protest

scared the shit out of me
luckily they didn't care about the car and after the most horrific 30 mins of my life we drove away

actually bad was
>Congo 2019
the country was relatively safe at that time
we had to plan deliveries to a bunch of rural "hospitals" (think of big old xray machines)

obviously we slept in a small city on the way
the next morning, a group of ~10 people with AK47 (or something similar looking) stand at the entrance
we hired local security but only 3 guys

they took our security and shot them (somewhere outside, didn't see it)

2 of them stayed and went with us for the rest of the day
they didn't talk to us really
we tried to explain we want to deliver medical equipment, but most of them quickly left
so to this day I don't know what clinch they had with our security and why they didn't care much about us

I'll never go back

>>2688514
What the hell

>>2688514
Le internet is ded.

>>2688514
YO WTF, it's all the same shit word for word

>>2667920
>You were the ones we had an alliance with before WW2 and you refused to help us when shit hit the fan

Literally read the Polish guarantee. It was null and void the second a soviet boot entered Polish soil. A fact deliberately forgotten and essential for maintaining victim mentality. I don’t hate Poland but I really wish you would know the facts before repeating the usual stale bullshit.

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>>2688514
not only copying single answers but even answer's answers.
I'm too pure for internet

Been through some ropey suburbs in the balkans, SEA and China but the only times I’ve experienced violence were in rural England and Berlin. I’d quite like to explore South America for some real poverty porn but alas I’m now married and will likely be a father within a year or 2

>>2668269
I'm always amused by people who suggest American cities aren't dangerous, because you can just avoid the half of it that's dangerous. "What are you talking about, Detroit is great, just make sure you don't go to most of it". I don't know if you live in one of these and are coping, or just think it's a cheat code for being smug on the internet whenever anyone correctly calls a shithole a shithole. Seriously think about how low your bar is

>>2670435
>For reference, I've spent time in Bangkok, Tijuana, and Kuala Lumpur and none felt nearly as dangerous.
Bangkok and KL are about as safe as a big city can get. Bizarre statement

>>2688514
Bro what the fuck, like half of this thread is in there.