I'm a solo female traveller - these are my safety ratings for places I was told to avoid

Some countries person atrocious reputations arsenic vacation destinations for solo pistillate travellers.

Are they deserved?

One adventurer posted a video that sheds immoderate airy connected what they’re truly similar to sojourn for women connected their own.

For the clip, writer and contented creator Sabina Trojanova (@girlvsglobe) rated countries she was told not to sojourn arsenic a solo pistillate traveller, giving them a people retired of 10 based connected however harmless she felt portion there.

Here are the 31-year-old's verdicts and her recommendations for what to bash portion there.

India - 7/10 

'India is simply a state that sadly struggles with precocious rates of unit towards women,' Sabina explains to MailOnline. 'Despite having a affirmative acquisition myself, these statistic are thing I reflected successful my rating.' 

She adds: 'I person conscionable returned from my 2nd travel to India and I thoroughly urge the authorities of Kerala arsenic a somewhat little hectic instauration to the country.' 

Guatemala - 8/10

In Guatemala, Sabina - who has visited 66 countries - recommends hiking Volcan de Fuego, an progressive stratovolcano. She describes the hike arsenic 'physically challenging' but with 'spectacular views'. 

Palestine - 8/10 

Sabina, who visited the West Bank, explains: 'I had a fantastic acquisition successful Palestine but lowered my people owed to wide information concerns stemming from the Israeli occupation.' 

She tells MailOnline Travel she recommends visiting Nablus, an past metropolis successful the West Bank, arsenic 'it's the archetypal location of knafeh [a spun pastry dessert] and 1 of my favourite places successful the world'. 

Kyrgyzstan - 7/10 

'If you are superior astir getting "off the beaten path", this is the spot to bash it,' the experienced traveller declares.

'Kyrgyzstan lone has constricted tourism infrastructure, which makes for a existent escapade trip. I went connected a three-day equine travel to Song-Kul, a distant freshwater water nestled among the mountains and it was a genuinely unforgettable trip.' 

Mexico - 8/10

Sabina, who is based successful London, can't take conscionable 1 proposal for Mexico, saying: 'There is truthful overmuch to bash successful Mexico, that it's intolerable to take conscionable 1 activity! 

'My main proposition would beryllium to swap retired the evident and highly commercialised Yucatan Peninsula for little touristy places.' 

Albania - 9/10 

The solo traveller says: 'A existent European gem for escapade travellers! It's hard to take conscionable 1 spot but Gjirokaster and Berat are some fantabulous choices for past lovers.' 

Gjirokaster and Berat are some historical cities that person been awarded Unesco status.  

Kosovo - 7/10 

Sabina explains: 'Kosovo is simply a tiny state (whose "country" presumption is inactive disputed) and you tin easy spot it successful a fewer days. That makes it cleanable for shorter breaks from the UK.' 

How does Sabina scope her ratings? 

She explains: 'My ratings are a premix of subjective experiences from my travels and broader information trends successful each country. 

'It is ne'er my volition to beforehand a rose-tinted presumption of overseas countries oregon disregard their darker realities. 

'But I besides find the communicative that travelling overseas arsenic a pistillate is unsafe - a communicative pushed heavy by definite segments of nine - incredibly problematic. The bittersweet information is that existing arsenic a pistillate anyplace is dangerous. 

'In the UK, a pistillate is killed by a antheral each 3 days. In a 2021 survey of 1,000 women surviving successful the UK, 97 per cent of participants reported being harassed oregon assaulted. With that said, immoderate countries are considered little harmless for women than others.' 

Would she springiness anyplace a cleanable 10? 

No. The experienced traveller reveals: 'In my view, specified a people is not imaginable successful today's world.'  

Would she urge visiting each of the destinations arsenic a solo pistillate traveller? 

Sabina tells MailOnline Travel: 'Yes and no. If you are going overseas for the archetypal time, these are not the places I'd recommend. 

'It's champion to commencement disconnected easy, physique your assurance and past tackle these much "challenging" destinations. 

'For solo question beginners, I'd urge either staying person to home, choosing destinations without a large connection oregon civilization barrier, oregon visiting destinations similar Thailand that are fashionable among different solo travellers.' 

She adds: 'I find it incredibly important to amusement women that solo question is not thing to beryllium acrophobic of. Bad things tin hap abroad, conscionable arsenic they tin hap astatine home. 

'It's captious that travellers bash their probe earlier going overseas and perceive to authorities guidelines, particularly successful struggle zones. But beyond these alternatively evident limitations, women should not halt themselves travelling solo retired of fear.' 

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