DO NOT Travel to These Places ALONE

10 countries where I would never travel alone I've  been to over 60 countries by myself I've been to over 70 countries on planet Earth I'm a big fan  of solo travel I'm a huge advocate of it for so many reasons however there are definitely  places where it is just better not to be by yourself these are 10 of them 10 of them with  one honorable mention that keeps popping up on all of the do not travel lists that I just don't  agree with starting off with my number 10 would be the Maldives the thi

ng about the Maldives is  that although it is this beautiful beautiful country full of all of these islands that have  beautiful resorts on them thinking over water Bungalows this white sand perfectly aquamarine  Blue Water sounds like the perfect place for a couple right for a honeymoon Escape for people  who are not traveling by themselves I don't love honeymoon destinations as a Solo Traveler and I  just don't think that Maldives a super romantic place that is just geared towards couples is 

the place to do that there are so many places on planet Earth that do have beautiful water  that have so much to see and do that I would pick before that southeast Asia really anywhere  there would be a great example there are so many solo Travelers that you can meet and is just  way more set up for people who are traveling alone this video is not about politics but the  next place I would mention is Iran there are so many wonderful things that I have heard about  traveling to Iran I have heard

that the people are just amazing I've heard that it's insanely  welcoming it is a place I would have loved to go as an American I never had the opportunity to  go without joining a tour but I have friends from Germany who went and they came back saying the  most wonderful things that said now is not the time there is so much going on there especially  for women Travelers it is just not a safe place for us right now and I just wouldn't Advocate  going to a place where kidnapping and sudden detent

ion for unknown reasons are common things  that are happening to people so there's a long list of countries where that is also the case  also use your best judgment I don't want this video to only be about places that are dangerous  because there's a lot of other places that are good to not travel by yourself that would bring  me to my next one which is French Polynesia if you've been following my Instagram any of my  other videos you will know that I have spent a lot of time in French Polynesia

it is one of  my favorite places on planet Earth it's like a postcard more than almost anywhere I've been  honestly that said it's just not a great place to travel independently you can do more of you can  do Tahiti pretty easily I wouldn't Advocate Bora Bora for the same reasons that I wouldn't Advocate  the Maldives it's just full of Honeymooners but as soon as you start to head out to the more  remote Islands in French Polynesia it's gonna start getting a lot lonelier the accommodation is  s

et up for more than one person so you're going to be paying a lot just for the privilege of being  the only one there the activities are often set up where you need to rent the whole boat so if  you don't have people with you it's going to be really hard to do that most people there are not  traveling alone and independently so it's not as easy to meet other people to do these things with  another thing you really need to know some French uh before Tahiti if you don't know some French you're goi

ng to  really struggle to talk to anybody that said you can absolutely join tour groups who are doing  amazing things like swimming with whales I happen to run one of them you can check more about it in  the show notes but it is not off the menu for you if you're a Solo Traveler I just think joining  a group joining their boat splitting costs is a good idea next is another place that I truly  love with all my heart but just don't think it's a great place for solo Travelers and that  is Namibia I

actually met my partner there and he was solo traveling through Namibia and when I  asked him yesterday he actually brought up that it's not the best place as a Solo Traveler the  reason why is not because it's dangerous Africa I don't even don't even feed into that the  reason why is because it is desolate there's only two million people who live in Namibia and  this is a vast fast country especially if you're in the southern part of the country you need to  be resourceful you need to know how

to change a Time fire you probably need to have a satellite  phone to get some kind of backup even once you reach that backup it might not get to you for a  very long time and if you're by yourself I just find that all that much more nerve-wracking so  I would certainly recommend going absolutely but maybe go with somebody else maybe go with an  organized group I actually run one of those as well this is not just to plug my tours I promise  but this is just another country where I do run a tour

there because in my opinion although I love  traveling it independently it's not something I would do completely by myself another one that is  a little bit surprising because I'm eating my own words a little bit here in the past I've said  that Las Vegas can be a great place to travel and I'm back pedaling a little bit on that I want  to clarify that the Las Vegas Strip I don't think is a great place to travel alone if you're going  to Las Vegas to see the beautiful surroundings and yes the su

rroundings are beautiful you've got  the Valley of Fire you've got Red Rock Canyon you've got places to even ski if you're gonna  go explore all of that that could be great I just don't think the strip is a place to go by  yourself you could probably meet people easily but I think the biggest problem with it is that  you need to keep your wits about you and Vegas is a place where people let loose it's a place where  they party and if that's what you're gonna do you need to have someone there who

you're with who's  looking out for you and who you're looking out for as well you don't want to get too intoxicated  and sometimes that's too easy to do and you could end up with one of those stories that you don't  talk about from Vegas so in order to avoid that I would just go with other people go to celebrate  things go to have fun with your friends but don't go completely by yourself they're just better  places in the world than Vegas for that next one I hate to bring up because I do love t

his country is  Chile I bring it up from personal experience so I spent about two months traveling throughout Chile  I even hitchhiked through part of it with a friend of mine at the time in Patagonia and I didn't  have any issues or feel unsafe that whole entire time time until he and I were no longer traveling  together my first night as a Solo Traveler there I was in an elevator and three big guys got in with  me and they were just harassing me the whole way down saying all kinds of threateni

ng things and  doing it like standing over me huddling over me it's still one of my worst travel memories and in  that situation what do you do so I just got quiet and hoped that nothing would happen thankfully  it was a short elevator ride and they just got out when the time came but it's not a situation  I would want to find myself in again and there is a machismo culture that can be present in much  of the South American region where this could be a big issue I did travel by myself through  P

eru after that I even backpacked throughout the mountains by myself never had any problems  there I'm happy to say but I just have to bring up chile because that was a problem that I had  in Santiago and it is unfortunate since it is so beautiful next is the Alaskan Backcountry  so there are so many Wilderness areas in in the United States that are just breathtakingly  beautiful you can go to any national park in the U.S you've got Yosemite you've got Death Valley  you've got so many beautiful t

hings to see here although you can get so remote and so alone and  not see a person all day if you want to you can be around other people pretty quickly and easily  within like an hour or two drive if you want that too and so all of that is to say that I don't  recommend the Alaskan Backcountry because you don't have that same access and it's not really  the type of place where I would Advocate solo hiking and solo backpacking even though this is my  love I love to solo hike I love to solo backp

ack some parts of Alaska are just too remote to be  safe alone if you fall if you have an issue if you break something if you're knocked unconscious  no one's going to be able to get help for you and you're going to be so remote that no one's going  to know where to look for you so I wanted to ask my community on Instagram for more ideas more  experiences that they've had at places that they didn't feel were good to travel alone and  this is what they said Morocco came up several times a big rea

son why people said it is that  although country is beautiful and overall a lot of them still enjoyed their experience what  they didn't like is the feeling of being in the cities alone they felt that they were using  their words harassed a lot that there was a lot of just unwanted attention as well especially  for the women on their own it's not a place I've actually been and part of the reason why is  because I've heard things like that about it and although I would love to go I personally wou

ld  prefer to do it with a friend with Garrett or with a group another one was Brazil and it's not  because Brazil wouldn't be a wonderful place to travel I mean there is so much going on in  that country you've got the jungles of the Amazon you've got beautiful waterfalls you've got  so many famous things to see however the cities in Brazil can be a little bit on the dangerous  side and the other big thing about it is that it is a big vast country and it can be hard to  navigate if you don't sp

eak Portuguese there's a lot of countries in this world where if you cannot  speak the local language it will be harder for you there's also a lot where that's not the case where  if you're mostly in English speaker you can still get by because the locals learn it or the people  at least who work in tourism will learn it but Brazil's just not one of those places it's not  as super heavy tourism Reliant country the last one I feel like we have to talk about is South  Africa it has come up on so m

any lists when I was doing research for this video of places that  are dangerous to travel by yourself and I will not deny that it is a dangerous country I think  everybody knows that there's a lot of violent crime unfortunately there's a lot of muggings  and I will tell you right now that I've traveled there three times by myself quite successfully  and had the best time I met so many people the locals there of every background were so amazingly  welcoming to me there's very few places I've bee

n that were like that I think what you need to know  is to just be very careful you can't have anything showing in your car because the break-ins  are common and carjackings too you just need to know that in the cities you don't walk you  don't walk anywhere especially by yourself so these are just things to keep in mind when you're  traveling in South Africa would I recommend it to someone who has never traveled alone anywhere  maybe not because there's other places you can go where it's going

to be easier and I think easy  is great when it's your first time but I just had to address it because it is one of my favorite  countries I will always love South Africa and just never know one person's bad solo experience  can be someone else's amazing experience so I'm actually curious to hear from you what do you  think of this list what would you add what would you take away if you want some of my best  suggestions for places to go watch this video foreign [Music]