Basic precautions
Keep your money and travel documents close to your body (perhaps in a pouch slung around your neck, tucked out of sight under your shirt),
Keep several photocopies of your passport, insurance, travellers' cheques etc. scattered through your luggage,
Do not use a waist pouch, it may as well be a transparent plastic bag: it's that fragile and that obvious!
Do not put all your money in one place,
Many women travellers wear the long tunic and loose pyjama dress of Indian women called the salwar-kameez and find that it substantially dissuades unwanted male attention.
If you are travelling alone, do not advertise it.
If you lose your passport, lodge a First Information Report at the local police station and contact your embassy.
Road Safety
Travel by road is considered dangerous. Outside major cities, main roads and highways poorly maintained and always congested. Even main roads often have only two lanes, with poor visibility and inadequate warning markers. Heavy traffic including overloaded trucks and buses, scooters, pedestrians is livestock, is normal. Travel at night particularly hazardous.
It's hopefully been a great tour of town.
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