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Whenever I visit any Foreign country, I keep my Passport in Hotel room in locked suitcase. I keep a copy of passport/visa in my wallet just in case. Also in Foreign countries, Cash is King. Keep a limited but sufficient amount of cash with you in your wallet but some emergency supply should be kept in Hotel room. Always keep an eye on potential pickpockets especially while travelling in crowded Public Transportation. I have survived in places like Paris, Barcelona, Calcutta despite not knowing French, Spanish, Bengali. As long as you apply basic common sense, you will be fine.
Sorry, can't answer that because as an adult I would never be in such a situation.
I can see this maybe happening to a newbie kid backpacking around Peru but an adult who has travelled before...NO...I mean this isn't your first rodeo right?
And yet even with language barrier you were able to make a $20 transaction for your watch:think:
BTW I do think most people understood your post but just by going on some of your past posts we are just scratching our heads here
Yes, I find that story suspicious, also. The Spanish word for telephone is telefono. They didn't get that you wanted to use the phone even though they didn't speak English? Really?
Just for the record, "telephone" is "el telefono" in Spanish, which was the national language of Peru the last time I checked. You mean to tell us that no one in the village understood "telephone"?
And you really could not make your need for a telephone/telefono understood, OP? Did you also try the universal sign language gesture of a hand held to the ear with the thumb and little finger extended (and the other fingers folded)? If you saw a phone anywhere, did you point to it and then to yourself with this gesture?
Sorry, but your story is increasingly difficult to buy.
This doesn't qualify as SERIOUS TROUBLE! It only qualifies as 'serious trouble' in lower caps without the exclamation point.
Yes, but as several people have already noted, it's a rather unlikely story to begin with.
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