Posted: 10/14/2014 | October 14th, 2014
On the second Wednesday of the month, Kristin Addis from Be My travel Muse composes a guest column featuring suggestions as well as guidance on solo female travel. It’s not a topic I can cover as well as because there are a great deal of solo female travelers out there, I felt it was essential to bring in an expert. In this month’s column, Kristin utilizes her own personal experiences to shed light on why it’s different traveling as a solo female rather than with a group or as a solo male.
My male good friends who travel have been invited into the houses of locals for meals just as commonly as I have. They’ve delighted in the exact same far-fetched as well as heart-warming experiences that I have. We come house with numerous of the exact same engaging stories. We both have the same-sized backpacks. We both have household members as well as good friends at house who concern about us. We deal with the exact same everyday difficulties as travelers.
In numerous ways, we aren’t so different.
So why do people make such a huge offer out of solo female travel?
Because, like it or not, women as well as guy do have different issues when it concerns traveling, particularly when alone.
As a solo lady I commonly lack the flexibility to travel without locals. In numerous cultures, women don’t have the type of autonomy we have in the West, as well as it can be both fretting as well as confusing to see me by myself. At 28, I’m already rather ancient for a single lady in numerous of the countries I’ve traveled to.
In Borneo, a lady came as much as me while her other half fixed my flat motorbike tire. “Sister,” she said, “you’re alone? You have no brother, no husband?” While her issue was authentic as well as appreciated, I get asked this a lot. certainly I have a other half somewhere. Don’t I at least have a boyfriend? Where are my children? What in the heck do I believe I am doing?!
I discovered that answering, “I really discover being single to be rather liberating!” or “Well, I don’t truly want any type of children” just results in much more horrified looks, so I typically just told them that my other half or sweetheart is “at home” or “on his way.”
While guy as well as women both have to concern about personal security while traveling, there are a few things that can occur that tend to solely target females. For example, I was groped in the dark while walking along a dirt road in an area that was understood as “safe” in Nepal just after sunset. even if I had been holding pepper spray it wouldn’t have mattered, because he was so swift I never even saw his deal with or had a moment to react. When I told a authorities officer, his very first concern was to ask me what I was doing alone.
Even after a year as well as a half of traveling solo, it made me upset at first, however it reminded me that yes, I am different from a male traveler. I can’t just walk around at night alone without thinking about the sobering possibility of sexual assault. While this is a issue even at home, female travelers have to be even much more vigilant in foreign countries.
Moreover, it’s likewise necessary to gown differently. Although this seems like a no-brainer, it’s a typical mistake. I when stepped out of a hotel space in Sumatra, Indonesia, without sufficient covering on my arms. It seemed like every male in the street stopped what he was doing to shout or make gestures at me. It was so chilling, I retreated back to my hotel as well as didn’t leave for the next three days. You have to always be mindful of exactly how you gown when you’re a female traveler. That can be psychologically taxing.
Unfortunately, women have to think about these things when we travel alone. In some countries, we can’t gown exactly how we want, be seen alone, or venture out at night without a posse. It can be socially unacceptable at finest as well as downright harmful at worst.
Does this imply that women shouldn’t travel alone? Of program not! It just implies that there are a few additional precautions that we have to take in purchase to guarantee our safety.
Modern psychologists suggest that women have powerful intuition as well as a increased capability to checked out nonverbal communication cues. Our gut instinct as well as intuition are practically always right. počúvaj ich.
(It’s likewise essential to keep in mind that the world outside can commonly be much safer than back home. I’m from Los Angeles, where gun crime, robberies, as well as violence are common. I wouldn’t walk around alone at night there even though it’s where I grew up. I don’t want to find off as stereotyping the world as a frightening place.)
Men who travel alone do likewise have concerns, however we women have to concern about security a bit more, have to protect our alternate life options somewhat much more vigorously, as well as should be assertive as well as dominant in cultures where thatmôže byť neobvyklé. Z tohto dôvodu robíme takú obrovskú ponuku zo sólových ženských cestovných, ako aj to je dôvod, prečo zostavujem tento stĺpec – aby som vám poskytol usmernenie o tom, ako presne vylepšiť vaše cesty oveľa lepšie a bezpečnejšie.
Prijatím najlepších bezpečnostných opatrení, vykonávaním nejakej výskumnej štúdie o colných colných colných konaniach a bezpečnosti pred odchodom do zahraničných krajín, ako aj výberom svojich vnútorností, môže byť sólové cestovanie bezpečné, príjemné a tiež mimoriadne potešujúce v budúcich blogoch, budem Hovorte oveľa viac o pozitívnej budove charakteru, kultivácii nebojácnosti, ako aj o osobnom raste, ktorý zažívajú sóloví cestujúci.
Sólové cestovanie nemusí byť škodlivé alebo strašidelné, potrebuje len to najlepšie množstvo prípravy a bdelosti.
Kristin Addis je samostatná profesionálka z cestovania žien, ktorá ovplyvňuje ženy, aby cestovali po svete autentickým a dobrodružným spôsobom. Bývalá investičná bankárka, ktorá ponúkala všetky svoje osobné veci, ako aj v Kalifornii v roku 2012, Kristin cestovala po svete viac ako štyri roky a pokrývala každý kontinent (s výnimkou Antarktídy, ale je to na jej zozname). Prakticky nie je nič, čo by sa nepokúsila, rovnako ako prakticky nikde, čo nebude skúmať. Môžete objaviť oveľa viac jej úvah v mojej cestovnej múze alebo na Instagrame, ako aj na Facebooku.
Zarezervujte si cestu: logistické návrhy a triky
Zarezervujte si svoj let
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Safetywing (najlepšie pre všetkých)
Zaistite moju cestu (pre tých nad 70 rokov)
Medjet (pre ďalšie pokrytie evakuácie)
Ste pripravení rezervovať si cestu?
Pozrite sa na moju stránku zdrojov, kde nájdete to najlepšie podnikanie, ktoré môžete využiť pri cestovaní. Uvádzam všetky tie, ktoré používam, keď cestujem. Sú to najlepšie v triede, pretože sa nemôžete pokaziť a využiť ich na vašej ceste.