i often get asked one of my scariest travel moments so i've decided to share with you my top three from visiting 161 countries please note that everything you are about to hear is a hundred percent based off my own personal travel experiences and nothing more okay my third scariest travel situation happened to me in astana kazakhstan in 2017. so i was there in march it was the coldest place i've ever felt and i didn't even have cold clothes with me because i was traveling on southern europe no but seriously it's like 12 degrees fahrenheit out
here and it is freezing and i had my camera with me and i was taking some photos of these monuments which looked beautiful to me at the time and as i was taking a photo this cop came up to me and he pointed and he said you come here and i was like oh damn so i walked over to him and he only spoke russian and kazakh which i speak a little bit of russian enough to kind of understand basic words he asked me where my passport is and i said i don't have my passport
it's at my hotel which is just around the corner and i was asking him if i could go retrieve the passport and he said no you come with me we go in the cop car and i was really scared kazakhstan is not a country that you want to go to a police station in as i know it he was taking me to the police station on the street and i was like shaking i was so nervous i thought i was going to get in big trouble and basically long story short i took up my wallet
i gave him 50 us dollars worth in the local currency and he let me go thankfully it was really scary and i didn't know that i wasn't able to take photos or he was just being really really strict but regardless now i'm extra careful when i take photos in the former soviet countries my second scariest travel moment was in chad in 2018 about six months ago so i was in the capital of jamanna chad i get there and i have a local buddy who's taking me around he was actually a really cool guy we jumped
on a motorbike taxi in the middle of the city and he was riding ahead of me so i was i was quite far behind him and all of a sudden the police tried to pull over my motorbike driver and i was like okay maybe this is normal and my driver kept speeding up and speeding up and all of a sudden we're caught in this police chase in downtown gemanna chad cutting through dirt roads there's cars slamming on their brakes honking and i was holding on for dear life the police finally caught up to the driver
he said show me your license and registration and apparently the driver had stolen the bike and he wasn't a taxi driver so the driver had nothing else to do but pushed the policemen all of a sudden it starts this giant brawl right in front of my eyes people from the street are like freaking out and they all running so i duck out and i go into this mini shared taxi thing and i calm down and after about 20 minutes i'm finally calm and there was a really cute kid sitting next to me his parents were
not in the taxi and so i just took a photo of him and the driver of the car slammed on the brakes pulled me over grabbed my shirt twisted it there was like a huge brawl that was happening and i had to really talk my way out of it this guy threatened to pull out a knife and it was a very scary situation admittedly i could have avoided it by not taking the photo but i've never been treated like that and i think it was really extreme what happened to me in gemini chad on that
day and finally my scariest travel moment happened to me in india in february of 2015. i had been in india for three months at this point backpacking solo on a really tight budget and i was in the rajasthan state which is my favorite state in india i was traveling overnight on a bus from udaipur to jodhpur the bus departed at midnight i was the only foreigner it was a sleeper bus so i was situated on the top bunk on the left side and so we're about an hour into the journey and i'm starting to doze
off i'm laying down i got my bags around my feet my ipod earphones in and all of a sudden out of nowhere the bus driver slams on the brakes turns the wheel left all the way and the bus flips over the freeway completely flips over all the windows shattered everybody's screaming and crying there's babies on board at that moment i checked my heart to see if it was still beating because i thought i had died and i remember looking up through my fingertips and there were glass and dust everywhere and i put my hands up
here and i remember seeing these guys feet and they were dangling ahead of me because he was holding on to the bar it was the scariest moment of my life we had to escape out the side which is which was the roof because all the windows were shattered i actually had a bunch of glass stuck in my foot i was wearing sandals and my foot was covered in blood and luckily the glass didn't hit my neck or didn't hit my my face or anything like that and so we have to get out of the bus
and i have my bags with me and we go out the busted window and then i jump like 10 feet down and two people were stuck in the bus um and they didn't make it out alive and the reason i know that is because everybody was circled around and they kept doing this everybody was bawling and i kept doing this sign i didn't see them with my eyes but i'm pretty sure they didn't make it out alive ambulance came they offered to take me to the hospital i said no just take me on to jodeport
and when i got on the next bus to pick me up i was like shaking and i couldn't believe what what just happened so yeah that was rough i'm not telling you these stories to scare you away from traveling but rather just to show you some real life situations that can happen to you at any time i do not hate these countries or these people it's all just part of the journey and it's going to get more and more intense as the end is near i'm drubinski and if you like my travel videos please click
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