Good points both. I usually travel with my wife so avoid situations like Jet is talking about. Our travel is now limited to Asia and have to say it is generally safer—IMO—than S. Europe where I know we were being sized up for a robbery a few times. Be especially careful on long train trips with your bags on the overhead rack. Once it got so bad I went into a hardware store and got a length of light chain and a padlock. In Asia don't accept food from people on trains. It's hard but say you just ate a big meal. There might be sleeping pills in the food and you wake up and your bags are gone. That happened to a few people I know. Back to what Jet said: We know a particularly handsome couple who lived in India a few years where he was working. In either India or Pakistan they were in a situation with a group of local men and the atmosphere took on a heavy sexual vibe. Long story short, it was the male of the couple the men wanted, not the wife. We have to be careful everywhere nowadays but will we ever be able to travel abroad again? Last idea tacked on at the end: If you're a woman do not travel alone by train in S. Asia, find a couple or a lone man who is willing to pretend to be your husband. On a train, being alone is not really dangerous but you will be pestered to death.