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Tips for Traveling in Thailand
1. Put all of your valuable things in one bag
and keep a really good eye on that bag. In fact, be touching
that bag at all times. If you can lock the bag with
something - anything, then do it. I have two zippers for each big
pocket on my backpack that I put a metal twist-tie through and twist
it a couple times. A lock would be better - and maybe I'll find a
cheap small one. If you are wearing your backpack on your back -
like most do, you cannot see what's going on behind you.
2. People following: I am very aware of when I'm walking through a market or store when there are people following me and if there are people following me closely. I'll stop and move to the side and pull my backpack off to check if the zippers are all OK or if the bag has been sliced if I feel someone bump into me. Theft happens REALLY fast. You can either check a lot and save your stuff, or relax and don't think about it and have disaster strike. I check a lot. 3. You can wear your money in a belt wrapped around you under your clothes but that doesn't mean someone's not going to take it. A visitor to the mansion I was staying in for a while was walking back to his room at near Khao Sun road at 11 am one morning... someone ran up behind him and pulled his shirt over his head and cut off his money belt. They knew where it was. Either they saw it under his shirt or they saw him use it when he was out somewhere. He lost 26,000 baht but at least they didn't knife him or hit him on the head. Be really smart about how much cash you carry around - do you really need more than 5000 baht cash in your pocket? Be even smarter about who is watching you and walking behind you... 4. Keep no more than a few hundred baht in a front pocket where you can get to it easily. Don't pull out over 1000 baht everytime you pay for something. 5. Leave your expensive watches, rings, bracelets, necklaces and earrings, noserings, whatever you have, at home. Nothing brings more attention to you than what you're wearing or driving. If you have a 40,000 baht gold necklace on your neck in Pattaya or Phuket and you think you're too tough to have someone rip it off at a stop light, you're not. Motorbike thieves have reached through cab windows to pull off a necklace though mostly it's pedestrians and other motorbike riders. I've not had any theft hit me personally in Thailand except for some reason they like white motorbike helmets. I've lost 3 in 2 years. My Thai girlfriend has had a wallet stolen out of her motorbike basket at a stoplight in Ubon (lost 120 baht). A month later she had her cell phone stolen out of her backpack when she was at a bank in Surat. 6. When using public transportation - a bus, plane, ferry, etc... put your money and cards in a really safe place - I recommend your underwear. I know numerous visitors that have had things stolen whether they were asleep or awake. More articles - Driving in Thailand > Driving a motorbike in Thailand > Another motorbike trip details >
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I've
heard stories of bags being cut as tourists were walking or
sleeping. But I've not actually seen anything like that happen.
