I have no business in the rape capital of the planet. They can find other tourists

I love the last sentence the most.

Sadly, I have found that travelling in any Arab country is not a great idea for single women. I have heard so many horror stories.

My wife and I went to Egypt before we got married. Outside of the hotel we were basically followed around by men and women non stop.

Egypt was disgusting. Never felt so unsafe. Beautiful country but the people are a disgrace. Same all over the middle east.

Agree about Egypt (or any other middle eastern country), which I visited years ago with my (very attractive) girlfriend at the time. There was no subtlelty about it, just an endless stream of blatant staring and comments from men. She ended up dressing from head to foot and with a scarf over her head.

As a guy, I had no issues in Egypt but; as you said, I believe it would not be a wise choice for any single female tourist. I don't know if they'd be in actual danger, but the sexist badgering and attention by the younger generation would be annoying. Worst that happened to me there was an Egyptian teenager wanted to feel my hair. I had long blonde hair at the time...unusual for a Muslim country to see a guy with long blonde hair! I let him....why not? He smiled ear to ear. I ended up later meeting up with a small tour group after a day on my own and there were single women traveling with the tour group...much safer (14 people in the group so it was a very small group)

I had a completely different experience when I travelled solo to Egypt (Cairo, Luxor, Aswan, and other places). The only place where I did feel a lot of staring and a few cat-calls was in Alexandria, but even that wasn't remotely close to the kind of things I've had to endure in my home country. TBF, I wore an al-amira all the time, so maybe that's why they behaved differently.

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I can agree with both points. I was not harassed in Egypt, but what I heard and saw was disgusting.

That description is awesome, but that's sad at the same time

What's DR and NJ?

I can confirm that! And such beautiful, quiet landscapes...

People in Japan are overwhelmingly nice! If you look lost, people will approach you and try to help. If you ask a stranger for directions, they will go above and beyond to help you find your destination. Even if you don't share a language, they will do their best to help and always be nice.

Morko the Ork, why are you finding it so difficult to accept that women can be unsafe in places? It’s such a weird hill to die on lmao

Additionally, how you behave. I traveled to France once without talking a single word of French except Bonjour and Merci and still didn't encounter any rude French. I greeted, asked friendly if they spoke English and wasn't mad at all when they didn't bit happy and thankful when they tried.

Good comment, many (very nice) and open minded male (and buffed) youtubers advertise travelling alone to this or that country as people 'are so kind' - but in some cases I cannot really picture myself travelling there on my own.

Yes, you will. However, be cautios. The world is also full of wrong doers.

The worst place was so specific it's almost funny.

I travelled China alone (western woman). Never once felt unsafe. I found the people, welcoming, curious, helpful and kind.

I'm surprised u didn't chance upon locals defecating in the streets. China gives me the shivers..

The thing is, Quebecois are much nicer to tourists than their own folks from other part of Canada. I was appalled by the numbers of mean comments and snarks, even from 1st and 2nd generation immigrants there, that I wondered if being an AH to non-Quebecois is part of their integration into society.

NZ may not appear on world maps very often but we are very nice people!

Totally. Americans get a bad rap but many of them are so kind, generous and helpful.

I'm German and I want to apologize to all the people who though that we were rude to them. We Germans are very blunt and compared to the behavior of let's say an American, our normal manners might come across rather rude.

That's right as regards to Morocco. A very friendly country but be careful when traveling alone as a Western woman. When I was a kid I remember having to tell an American friend of ours to not speak English too loud because us two (females) were the attraction of the souk, with grown ups men staring and making very lewd comments.

you went to Rwanda... are you white?

well if you went shortly after october 7th or around one of the sad holidays (tisha b'av, yom hashoah, yom hazikaron are the big 3 - in order, 'general sad day in Judaism, allegedly both temples fell on that day among other things, also historically some Bad Stuff happened then too...google it, also it's a fast day and it's hard to be happy when you can't eat or drink', 'holocaust remembrance day', 'veterans' day, but very different to the US') yeah they're going to be sad. In my experience Israelis tend to be about normal, definitely not like that.

My experience with the French is: They're super nice, if you're being nice to them. And it's easy to come across rude to a French person without intending to do so. Make sure to know some expressions in French and always greet them in French, even if you continue the conversation in English. That shows them that you respect their language and culture. And always greet the shopkeeper when you enter a shop.

I've not been to Taiwan, but my university in the US was relatively popular with Taiwanese students we had probably 300 out of a total enrollment of around 4000. They were almost all exceptionally nice and polite, if a bit shy. We also had students from several Balkan countries and that was hit or miss - for every amazing guy from Dubrovnik who got along with everyone there was a creeper from Belgrade who was a dedicated misanthrope. One of my favorite memories of university was when a Taiwanese student (probably 4'9"/150cm) got paired as roommate with a Slovenian member of the university's volleyball team (maybe 6'6"/200cm), became inseparable friends and went everywhere together.

We were in the US in 1997 & again in 1999. Everyone was friendly, helpful & especially interested in what we thought of the US

That's weird re. Turkey - and again, it may depend on several aspects. I travelled to Turkey (Istanbul), wandered through the streets alone (including the great bazaar), and people were all nice and helpful. I was once mistaken for a local by somebody who asked me for directions.:))) We got lost once, it was already dark and police escorted us to the hotel when we told them we were tourists. I asked why they bothered, and they responded that tourism was vital for their country, and they made sure tourists were safe, so they'd want to return and share positive experience to others.

Ive read that japanese people often need treatment for ptfsd (post traumatic france stress disorder), and the embassy in france will help send people home earlier because of this.

France was cold (I'm German, so I don't hold it against them) but Belgium was very warm and welcoming.

South Vietnam was lovely. North Vietnam was... confronting. This was 20 odd years ago, but the outright hatred, abuse, rudeness, snide comments and attempts to completely rip you off if you are white were awful. I understand the impact the Vietnam war had on the people in the North and tried really hard to be patient and kind in the face of the racism but it was hard. The good thing to come out of it was that I have a much better understanding of my privilege being a white person living in a western country.

Stereotype does not come from Americans. I'm from the Netherlands and I feel that here it's either you love em or you hate em (the French)

Even the scammers do it with a smile. So many scammers targeting tourists, and they hike up the cab fare when you are non-Asian.

Interesting, I don't remember coming across any rude Filipinos in Manila.