In most cases travel dangers are small however; FlightlessTravel.com recommends that all users should understand the dangers of travel before embarking on any journey as dangers will vary considerably depending on which country you are in.
Dangers include; tropical diseases; dangerous animals; poor sanitation standards as well as poor food and drinking water standards. You can protect yourself against many of these risks by ensuring that you get correct travel inoculations before leaving home (worringly a large number of people don’t do this!), the UK NHS website; fitfortravel, provides a useful list of travel inoculations for different parts of the world. It should be noted that advice on travel inoculations differs depending on which country you live so it is always advisable to contact your local doctor.
Travel dangers can also come from other people through robberies and assaults or even dangerous driving. Always think about the precautions you can take before you start a journey. For example, travel insurance is a useful way of protecting yourself against some of the financial costs that you could incur if you become ill or have an accident while away from home. We have also provided some links at the bottom of this page to some useful travel products.
As the routes on this site are provided by our community of users, FlightlessTravel.com is unable to guarantee that all routes are safe to travel, as such there may be some routes which pass through areas with high terrorist activity or even areas officially classed as war zones. To help you to travel safely we recommended that users should access the latest information provided by their government on overseas countries. For UK citizens this is www.fco.gov.uk/travel and for US citizens http://travel.state.gov. Sorry for not listing any more countries than this but it’s a long old list! For health related issues the World Health Organisation website http://www.who.int/en has a wealth of information.
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