Traveling solo is everyone’s dream. Accompanied by a book in a coffee shop, just enjoying personal time. A solo journey is one in a lifetime experience it makes you more aware of yourself and your surroundings.
The perks that come with solo travel are many but one has to be very careful while traveling alone, especially the girls. One should never stop themselves from traveling alone but take all the measures for safety. A girl to travel alone should keep following things in mind
Gain all the information about the places beforehand before traveling
It is very important to know about the places you are visiting it helps you to plan your travel and prevents you from getting into any troubles
Always keep someone updated about your location and doings
Any person from your family or friends should be updated about your place of stay and your and the destinations your visiting. This ensures your security and makes it easy to locate you in case any dangerous situation arrives.
Keep the local maps ready and do not completely rely on electronic gadgets
Many a times places do not have electricity and network so it will be a stupidity to completely rely on mobiles for showing your path, a travel map of the place and the guidebook will help you to get out of this situation.
Keep money (changes) handy with you as it is difficult to find ATM’s everywhere
Not all the places come equipped with ATM’s and swiping machine especially small shops and public transport. So better to trouble yourself for finding any source of many its good to keep enough money handy with you in small digits.
Keep the information and number of the nearby police station
You might have no idea in what kind of trouble or situation you may get into while traveling so it is very necessary to have the telephone number of the nearby police station to seek help whenever the need arises.
Keep your identity document with you everywhere you travel
Identity is very important especially if you are traveling abroad. It will not just be helpful to identify you but will bring you out of many unwanted situations.
Learn a bit of local language
Learning local language will help you a lot, it’s not necessary to learn the complete language but some of the words like ‘help’ or ‘danger’ this will be beneficial to ask for help.
Trust your instincts more than anything
While traveling alone it is not at all advisable to trust anybody no matter how hospitable the person is. There are many people looking for innocent prey. Trust your instinct more than anything and if you find anything fishy in the situation take quick steps to safeguard yourself.
Learn Self defense
Many a woman get into bad situation especially traveling at night, you don’t need to be very powerful to get out of such situation but few kicks and punches here and there will increase your safety hence girls should learn basic self-defense.