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Originally Posted by throne
My 1st trip, I was walking around near jetty side. 1 guy approached me and ask if I want girl, I say no n walk away. While crossing road, he walk in front of me. When I reached the other side, he grab my hand and say I need pay him for 'guiding' the traffic, I refused. Then few guys walk over from a distance towards us. Speaking vn language that I don't understand, I pay him 20k and they all left.
Same trip, I visited Vien Dong and my locker was picked and some $ was stolen from my wallet, my fault for not being careful.
A local friend of mine went bank n withdraw $ to buy a bike. He was knocked down and robbed. Likely a tipped off from someone inside the bank..
Taking pictures on the road will get phone snatched. Safe??? Try a selfie in taiwan, japan hk your phone is still safe.
You mentioned some time back about someone got robbed naked in his hotel room...
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for every City there is always danger and whether you are target because of the clothes and things you wear...or the money you are showing off in public...even local Vietnamese are not spared...
danger signs in HCM
expensive watches, phones, tablets, camera, gold jewelleries...
taking out wallets in public
always advised frens to keep expensive things at home...dun bother to bring...and spilt the money in several pockets...take out small change to pay instead of taking wallets...
some of your examples above do happened everywhere and even sinkie land...if paying 20k can let a tout go away then i think this is just you are inexperienced...you should not be venturing around alone on your 1st trip...but at least you learned...
lockers getting picked and when your local fren come out from bank got robbed do happened not just in hcm...these we read about it everywhere can happened...
yes...do stay back in sinkie land if you dun feel safe to travel...