live in a safe environment It is essential for every human being because the street is a key space in daily life. And these are obligatory crossing points for carrying out daily activities such as going to work, studying or shopping, … with family, friends or alone. Therefore, the power move without fear be victim of theft or assault It’s basic and, unfortunately, uncommon in many areas.
We must also keep in mind that security is sometimes a matter of perception because several factors can give the impression of crossing a dangerous zone. In SpainFor example, it often happens that, depending on the culture, certain neighborhoods or tourist centers in large capitals are considered unsafe. For others, on the contrary, it is a luxury to be able to walk there without risk. The same thing is happening outside our country.
Aware of this and as the expert traveler that she is, the Catalan tiktoker Carla Domènech I just uploaded a video to your profile @carladomenechp when talking about the countries in which she, who usually travels alone, felt more or less in danger by going alone. “I hope this helps all the girls when planning your trips,” she says in the post, which in just a few days has surpassed 650,000 views.
“Even my ex was scared”
“What I’m going to say is based on my experience, what I’ve been through and the fact that I’m a woman,” she warns before getting to the heart of the matter. The first city that comes to mind when you think of insecurity is Athens (Greece), which you visited three summers ago. “During the day I already felt unsafe, but at night I would go there with my ex and even he was afraid. It was horrible,” Carla recalls, recalling that she had the feeling all the time that they wanted to rob her and that they even went to the hotel early because it gave them “a really bad feeling.” “A lot of people think the same thing,” he says.
The ‘tiktoker’ also refers to Malaysia and its capital, Kuala Lumpur, and in this case she thinks it’s mainly because she was a girl. “They said things to me all the time, men are like very sexist and depending on what you wear, they tell you things”, so she doesn’t recommend going alone at night. He didn’t like it either, in terms of security, it was New York: “alone depending on the neighborhood I wouldn’t go and in the subway either.” From the city of skyscrapers, he remembers a lot of people who did drugs and didn’t know “who is crazy and who is normal” and “it gives a pretty bad atmosphere“.
“Just like in Hawaii when I was a volunteer there: it’s full of very bad people and I was quite scared,” continues Carla, who adds that she has just returned from the Philippines and that she also does not recommend going alone to Manila if you are a woman, even if she does not see any problems on the islands. On the other hand, the young woman also advises in many European cities such as Paris or Rome not to be near bus stations because “Nothing like a great atmosphere, but removing that.
Conversely, ‘tiktoker’ highlights sites in which safer I felt like I was traveling alone. He highlights the islands of Bali (Indonesia), the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, where “people help you a lot”. From Europe it stays in the northern region and speaks specifically about Finland, Norway or Sweden. “And in Puerto Rico, honestly too,” says Carla, who points out that even though it was in the United States, she felt “super safe at all times, the people were super nice, they helped me a lot.”
Before finishing, she remembers South Korea, where she felt safe “all the time,” and Japaneven if in the latter case he emphasizes that the feeling of security depends on the areas because there “there are men who are a little ‘scary’… but generally good”. More than a thousand followers, many of them girls who travel alone, wrote to share their travel experiences and give their opinions on the subject.
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