Travel Tips

• Avoid rooms on ground floor that is easily accessible by outsiders. Ask for room close to elevators. Avoid rooms next to emergency stairs, stairwells are good hiding places for suspicious characters and allow them to come and go undetected
• Duct tape can be handy. Hem up a skirt. Tape everything together if you're leaving luggage in the room for a few days. Remove lint
• Don't look like a damsel in distress. Plan daily itenerary before leaving room, study the map, familiarise with foreign currency, always act confidently. Don't look vulnerable
• In a club/restaurant, deter unwanted male attention by avoiding eye contact with single-and-seeking men. Fake wedding band can also signal you're not interested and don't want to be bothered
• Sarong is the most versatile peice of clothing. Doubles as beach sheet, towel, skirt, dress, headdress, curtain.
• Store valuables in tampon or maxi-pad box, nobody wants to go digging there
• A sleepsack weighs almost nothing and takes up little room in your bag. Keeps between you and questionable bedding, can also double up as beach mat.