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Avoiding Mosquito-Borne Illness on Solo Travel. There are no completely effective means of avoiding mosquito-borne illnesses. Even with malaria pills taken diligently, they are not one hundred percent. Unfortunately, they are some of the best options travelers to the tropics...

Solo Travel safety-7 Tips on How to Avoid Being a Robbery Victim With fears resulting from a global pandemic and infrequent, but still concerning, acts of terrorism, travelers may overlook the more likely possibility of property loss and theft.  More often, petty crimes can...

Here are our 5 Tips For Traveling Asia Alone: Check out our single traveler tips for traveling alone in SE Asia, and give us some of your own. 5 Tips For Traveling Asia Alone: Tip 1: 1. Avoid being a traffic statistic or victim of drive-by pickpockets. Watch out for fast-paced...

Staying Safe on Travel 5 Tips for Women Traveling Solo: A past tragic murder of two young Argentinian women in an Ecuadorian coastal town raised more questions of women’s safety in traveling abroad in pairs or solo. Having visited 68+ countries and all 50 US states, I have...

Solo Travel Safety Updated Tips for Women Travelers: Check out these 12 tips for a safer trip. If you are going abroad, don’t let jetlag make you careless! Solo Travel Safety Updated Tips for Women Travelers: Know Before You Go: A past Washington Post had one of the best...

Update:  Staying safe on cruises: Cruises have become more and more popular with solos. Cruise lines are starting to offer solo cabins or low to no single supplements, especially for river cruises. I have been on four river cruises. They ranged from the Amazon in Brazil, the...

Safety Tips for Women Solo Travelers: Here are our ten tips. Here are our 10 safety tips for women traveling solo. Much has been written about how women traveling abroad solo can work to be safer. We look forward to hearing your suggested additions and comments. 10 Safety Tips...

Solo Travel-Five Tips for Safe Travels in Troubled Times:  Concerns about safety have been raised at times in light of unrest and certain terrorist attacks abroad.  However, statistically, the dangers are much greater on US highways. In any case, it is important at home or abroad...

Here are our new Solo Travel Safety Tips to Stay Healthy Abroad. In the first half of this decade, the ebola virus raised global concerns although primarily active in West Africa.  could breathe a sigh of relief.  However, shortly thereafter, the Zika Virus became a tremendous...

Here are our new 5 Single Traveler Tips on Safety-Hotel Fires. A prior New Year’s Eve fire in Dubai’s 5-star hotel, the Address Downtown Dubai, demonstrates that even modern, elegant buildings at times, can hold such dangers. More recently, the Mandarin Oriental in...