Safety Tips Backpacker

Every year there are news about the backpacker who lost their backpacks and left the bad memories on their trip to the event.

The backpacker's luggage often attract the attention of local residents, especially when they visit the poor or developing countries. For example, they could have brought a camera so the price is equivalent to an annual income of local residents. The threat of loss or theft of more obvious in places visited by tourists where local residents could be jealous of the attitude of the backpacker.

Indeed, the backpacker's no need to feel worried about the theft of the items they carry. The key is not to show yourself as an easy target for them. Here are some tips to secure your backpack.

1. Backpacks should always be closed. It sounds trivial, but just a few minutes you sleepy or fall asleep at a bus stop or when you put your backpack just while studying the map, you actually give an opportunity for someone else to take your own backpack.

2. Packing as little as possible. Backpacks full of it obviously being sought and because heavy, automatic will often make you put the backpack in floor.Backpacker in Indonesia / Photo by Courtesy

3. Do not accentuate luxury. Wearing jewelry, eyewear and watches styles which can be expensive object of attention.

4. Be careful with identifying marks or labels that you attach. Logo sort of "IBM" or "Nokia" to signal that there might be an expensive electronic equipment in the backpack.

5. When do the packing, put your valuables in the bottom of backpacks and coats or wrap it with unwashed clothing. If in case the thief ripped backpack with a knife or razor blade when you are in a crowded place, hopefully they just get dirty clothes only.

6. When riding a tuk-tuks, motorcycle taxis or other public transportation (particularly in Asia), make sure your backpack straps wrapped or tied around the shoulders or legs if possible. It is common in some countries modus operandi is the thief riding a motorcycle and robbed my backpack and ran away.

7. Make sure your name, address and your email account on the label made a really stamped on his backpack. If you use a label that just tied a rope backpack feared could fall or damaged baggage entered the bus or plane. With identity label visible in the backpack, if the backpack until gone, at least more likely to be found.

8. When riding the bus a long time to eat, sit on the same side of the trunk where your backpack is stored, so that every time the bus stopped, you can easily keep an eye on and make sure your backpack is not lowered.

9. Wherever possible use a travel insurance also provides protection for your backpack. It needs to add a bit of spending more, but the point you feel calm.

 tips may seem like a normal thing, but theft or loss of your belongings during the trip (even including passports) can occur in a matter of seconds! (From various sources)