If you’re on your dream vacation to places like Tajikistan, and you can’t afford an armed division to protect you. Expect just about anything.
It’s eye opening when you love the world and suddenly find out that the world doesn’t love you back.
“If you’re on your dream vacation to places like Tajikistan, and you can’t afford an armed division to protect you. Expect just about anything.”
I travelled the world internationally on business. In retirement I travel for pleasure only the US or Canada and I stay outside the cities. There is more beauty and goodness to explore and appreciate in this country than one can see in a lifetime.
Why risk one’s life unnecessarily in any “stan” country when you can spend decades wandering through public lands in the US where you have more chance of being injured by the animals living there than people? Plus you are exposed to wonderful and interesting people outside the urban areas, particularly if you stay in campgrounds and not roadside motels.
The sad fact is that such a thing could happen even in Paris, these days.
Avoid Kafiristan, too.