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These 19 Tourist Horror Stories Will Make You Afraid To Travel

17.

I was interrailing with my friends and fell asleep on one of the night trains in a different carriage to them. I woke up at around 5am, with an old man rubbing my bare feet on his crotch. After running away from him and unable to find my friends, I spoke to a conductor who explained to me in broken English that my friends were on end of the train going to Austria, but I had ended up on the part of the train going to Bratislava. I ended up stuck in Bratislava with no shoes, no money, and a dead phone. I had accepted death until a couple took pity on me and helped me to get a train back to Austria. It was the worst night of my life.

18.

In-laws went to Mexico for their 25th anniversary, I specifically told them not to leave the resort or drink the water…they did both. Practically got kidnapped getting onto a boat alone with some locals who said they wanted to show them another resort, they ended up far away from their hotel and had to run miles to their resort after these people demanded money. Then when they got home they had diarrhea for two weeks from drinking the water.

19.

Vladivostok, Russia. I got robbed by the police, a street performer tried to rob me with his monkey, I got the shits, and felt as if I was going to die the whole time there.

Written by Laura McNairy

Laura is a freelance writer for TFLN. She likes to write about what she knows best — dating, sex, and being awkward, but usually in the opposite order. She is the Assistant Editor and videographer for Peach Fuzz, a sex-positive nudie magazine in ATX.