- Travel Tips
- by Footprint Team
- December 02,2016
Fight back against pick-pockets
Every Friday afternoon as Hanoi’s Dong Xuan evening market begins to get set up those weekend-night-market-pickpockets start getting excited. This weekend lets ‘fight’ back.
Hanoi is one of the safest places to travel to on your Vietnam tour – if not for those pesky pickpockets that seem to only come out during the night market. Really, they are not even real pickpockets, but they have devised a way of getting to your cash, credit cards, and sadly, sometimes your passport. What they do is, unexpectedly cut a hole in your bag and get everything out that way.
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So here’s what we all need to do:
– When we leave our hotels bring only what we need. 500,000 VND is about $25. That should do anybody for a cell phone case and a scarf, and probably a quick bite to eat, and still a little left over for a few bia hoi’s.
– Leave everything else in your hotel room or in the hotel safe. Do NOT bring your passport, wallet, purse, or camera (if it is in a bag).
– No purses, no back packs, no bags, no sashes, what ever you might call them – leave them at the hotel.
– If you want to take a camera, wear the camera’s strap around your wrist or neck so that you can always feel it on your person.
Follow these simple guidelines and you will be ok; and, those pesky pickpockets, will go home empty handed!
Author: Footprint Team
Always full of travel spirit and laughter. Our expertises are shown not only through knowledge of the destination but also experience working in the tourism industry for over 15 years.
