archives: Travel Safety

Tips, comforting statistics, and helpful safety practices that could turn you from a murmuring terrified mess into a functional human being on flights  More »

An expat in South Korea feels the threat of North Korean aggression.  More »

Everywhere I went, I saw uniformed, stone faced men holding large guns, and during the Danish cartoonist riots I saw Army Rangers and riot squads patr  More »

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Are you aware of how to deal with assault and harassment when traveling?  More »

Landslides trapped as many as 2,500 people in the town of Aguas Calientes, the base for trips to Machu Picchu.   More »

No matter how loudly Britain howled, the Chinese were never going to bend the rules for a drug smuggler.   More »

Traveling potentially dangerous routes should not mean courting disaster for its own sake.  More »

Western governments recently warned travelers to steer clear of Honduras, but is there really a good reason to listen?   More »

The French government has introduced a bill which would force tourists to pay for their rescues abroad, begging the question: when are travelers takin  More »

Is creating a fleet of candy-pink cars with makeup mirrors really a step forward for women's rights, or is it simply reinforcing the same macho attitu  More »

Never had I imagined that I was going to end up in a third world jail.  More »

I once awoke on an overnight bus in the U.S. to find my male neighbor attempting a ‘massage’ of my upper thigh area.   More »

A graduate student who studied in Moscow addresses the risks for people of color traveling to Russia.  More »

Vodka, monkeys, and bullets, oh my!   More »