Machupicchu14 wrote:
(Although if you come to think of it, you are exposed to dangers everywhere!)
Well, I assume everyone can tell that we're talking in relative and not absolute terms.
Machupicchu14 wrote:
Obviously you don't know much about what Pakistan really is as a country and how tourists feel when they have been there. Pakistan, apart from the borders, which are quite dangerous can definitely be considered a safe place to be in. And as a tourist, woman and Christian even though I love India with all my heart, I would feel safer travelling to Pakistan.
I'm not saying it's some sort of horribly dangerous place, though obviously the borders are, but apart from that, it's not, I agree. But
how someone can think it's safer than India, I simply do not understand. The crime stats say otherwise, tourism stats say otherwise, they're not even secular. I honestly am simply so dumbfounded at this moment that I don't even know what to say, so I'm just going to leave it. I just hope that one day when you go there, (as I'm sure you will), such a situation does
not arise that I get a chance to say I told you so.
PS: Venezuela is run by a dictator.
Chrissie777 wrote:
Floragord, we've been to Venice in October 2015. The weather was lovely, but even though it was late October, there were way too many tourists. I guess there never is a time where one has Venice to himself.
I agree, we stayed in an AirBnb and the woman who owns it came over from the mainland to show us around before we settled in. She was born and brought up in Venice but moved to the mainland when it became too expensive. She was telling us about the hordes of tourists and how her city doesn't feel like her own anymore.
She looked us straight in the eye and said "when we locals come over from the mainland, we think, 'where did my city go?'" It was honestly heartbreaking.