BUG Europe - the Backpackers Ultimate guide to budget travel in Europe. Buyer beware: 10 common travel scams. While you’re often safer overseas than you are in your hometown, a few scams seem to pop up all over the world.
Repeat the mantra: if it looks too good to be true, it must be too good to be true… 1. Fake police Sometimes also the real police, they’ll demand to see your passport and find something wrong with your visa, but then suggest your troubles will all be over if you pay a fine. To them. 2. On entry into a store, often prompted by an enthusiastic taxi or rickshaw driver, you will be offered a deal so preposterously lucrative that refusing it seems unthinkable. 3. Drivers taking you into town might try every trick in the book, from asking you for an inflated fare to driving around the streets to raise the price higher. 4.
You're approached by an extremely genial young man who offers you a scratchie card, no strings attached. 5. 6. More than likely, you've just lined their pockets with more cash than the locals would earn in a month. Wanderfly. 10 Best Places to Live for Escaping World Conflict. Where would you be the safest if World War 3 broke out tomorrow?
Perhaps it’s a grim subject, but safety and distance from world conflict can be a motivating factor in your choice to expatriate. At the very least, conflict around the world can weigh heavy on the soul, and it’s nice to know there are some places still left in the world where you might be left in peace. Thus, we’ve assembled a list of the 10 best places to live if you want to escape world conflict. 10. Switzerland Switzerland’s long history of neutrality and its tucked away location among the valleys of the Alps still make it a safe bet, even despite having a high number of bordering nations. 9. Costa Rica has a stable democracy, a disbanded military and a national policy of neutrality. 8. There are regions of Papua New Guinea that are still being discovered for the first time. 7. 6. 5. 4.
Isolated in the middle of Micronesia, Tuvalu is among the safest and most remote places in the world. The best hostels in the world. With the increasing competition between each other, and rise of the flashpackers, hostels have piled on the amenities to attract travellers in recent years.
But I want it all. In an ideal world, every hostel would… 1. Be clean…like Madrid’s Cat’s Hostel: 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. …and, finally, it should charge (at the very most) half the price that a night at a nearby, respectable, budget hotel would cost. All of these hostels (and another 1,500) can be booked through Lonely Planet at Hotels & hostels.