Lonely Planet’s travel nightmares

Even the most cautious travelers are sometimes lost , and not hard on the local or otherwise label , and vomiting lonely travel wading a new destination. While we are seasoned explorers , writers and staff saw the Lonely Planet in their fair share of disasters Travel .    But there are only a few bites dare participate in a low voice , for flinching , listeners open mouth ( or nausea ) . Failures disease guns on the road throughout the meetings and waving firearms wildlife went wrong , and what are some horror stories of travel.  Specific brothel in Malawi lonely travel .  Lonely travel Lusaka , Zambia. We head east to Lion , Malawi, local bus. I bought seats on the bus rapid ... That never arrive . So with the other two bus people resigned , most people after four hours and we parked on a bus stop to take everything and bypass roads is directed fantasy portfolio driver to do so.  Somehow , my girlfriend and I stuck in the tandem seating in the scope of our bags, which rebounded to edge the emergence of touts who demand an exorbitant premium service. Gets most of the remaining goods lonely travel stacked on the roof of the bus to excessive heights so that villagers on the transmission side of road in a state of shock. Unusually in South Africa , and even the driver slows and turns to see higher and transition metals of the bus under pressure impracticable .  Well after nightfall 0.12 an hour in the nine-hour trip from which we had just a short stay bathroom , the bus box in Sinatra , a town a few kilometers away from the border . But we did not disgorged station ; We are in a warehouse at the bottom of the market closed and off. Not at all comfortable , and we follow his music lonely travel. For a brothel , of course lonely travel. Owner an opportunity to see me and my girlfriend works as a buzz kill , but you have mercy on us. Guarantee a room until dawn if we commit to stay indoors . This suits us very well.  Ethan Gerber is a writer / editor with a passion for travel and responsible and sustainable communities. Follow lonely travel tetrachloride  bikini leech  I was wobbly and dry 10 hours of hiking through the forest lands before the time of Kao Soak National Park , southern Thailand lonely travel . After a fall full selection ( at the request of our guide), and melted in bamboo chairs in my hospitality. Meals, and several sunset glacial Singh later, I detached from the chair lonely travel, I felt a lonely travel sensation in the lower and upper thigh, my . I looked to find a leech gorged ( my! ) blood the size of fingerling potatoes , between the legs . Realizing he had fallen gospel of my pants , and I found the energy to sprint to the bathroom, where a small hole in my bikini line started bleeding for three days. , Respectively.  what do you mean with lonely travel ?  Emily K Mann, Lonely Planet Editor at Large  Undulating form that sends a shiver down the spine travelers lonely travel , humble leech . Photo of Sarah . CC BY 2.0.The slithery form that sends a lonely travel shiver down the spine travelers , humble leech . Photo of Sarah . CC BY 2.0 .  Bitten by a hobo in Bordeaux  Lonely travel i had my first ever solo trip at the age of 19 years . I was to taste the most affordable models in the region with a group from the hostel and after my house closed wine we decided to take a few bottles of the local supermarket and sit lonely travel in the park across the road .  He also knows most drinkers, and after a couple of a lot of patience and it becomes your bladder when you glottal go , you glottal go. Comfortable there was lonely travel a small forest of trees on the edge of the park. Less conveniently also contain a desperate young man who was a perfect time for opportunistic theft .  Being a teenager in war , I forgot immediately that this is exactly the kind of event you purchase travel insurance and received. Conquer with my opponent in a headlock , and you 're not ready for the end of my defense suddenly sinking his teeth with him in my arms.  French doctor who treated me muttered darkly about " anger " ( rabies) as he bandaged my arm and even though I tried to soldier for several days, it quickly became clear that on your back on your own is not a lot of fun when wearing a harness.  Later in almost a year and after a long period of a piece of meat missing from my left elbow and development, I found myself still standing tests and vaccinations regular blood tests at my local hospital and you can just leave my phone.  Tom Lewiston , digital editor (destinations) , London. Follow @ otherwise  A bandaged arm - not the best travel memories . Photo by Garrett Albright. CC BY a.k.a. bandaged arm - not the best travel memories lonely travel . Photo by Garrett Albright. CC BY 2.0 .  Silence at gunpoint in the capital  I stayed strong endurance hesitant , but it seems best option (IE , cheaper ) when you are in Washington , DC. It was one of the housemates lonely travel in the morning and our room to discuss plans for the day. It was mid-morning , but it was still another man in bed and Rhombi asked us to make less noise . We have reduced our voice, but continued to speak . Suddenly, the human sleep and reaches under his pillow , pulled out a gun, aimed at us and shouted, " I told you to shut up. Do not make me tell you again .   " We left the room sharpish and within minutes we are led to our gun toting roommate away by police. rest of the events of the day can not really compete with that . And I am more reluctant than ever to stay in a hostel .  Clifton Wilkinson, editor of the destination ( and reluctant visitor hostel)  Catastrophic disoriented in Budapest lonely travel  I got off the plane and the baggage carousel on fire lonely travel. Vote Hungarian cry as smoke pours into the baggage . I'm stuck without my luggage and comfortably friend and I'm supposed to answer the last Alana session work ( Alana is the essence strength vodka flavored peach). When I was finally reunited with my luggage and finds it is not long until we have all the worse for wear .  We are in a warehouse bar , where I 'm stuck lonely travel with the guy crying about how Lou Reed is the greatest composer Schooner or Mahler. My friend has disappeared and no response to his phone. No rookie mistake . 1 : I do not have a map . No rookie mistake . 2: I do not have a phrase book to ask for directions in Hungarian.  I can not remember the name of the street and the apartment is 56, so I use the international language of charades to ask for directions . Lonely travel instructions followed me to the kebab shop - delicious, but the end is not what I wanted . Now I 'm lost , tired, drunk and unable to travel advisor communicate. I cut a pair of men Snagging and a representative travel advisor for them, but the joke again . I think they inviting me to sleep in their place.   I did not want , but a movement that will work with them a little. We finally arrive at the door of their apartment. Miracle - is No. 56 on the street and this is my friend! They know the security code, and I stifled tears of joy by shaking with emotion . I walk to the door of my friend. Knock. Strike lonely travel again . Explosion. More striking. Neighbors yell at me so I gave up and I sleep in the hallway. My muscles seize and pinch nerves in travel advisor the back, cold lonely travel creeps over my body and I fall asleep wishing I had brought my guide.  Kate Sullivan, a lawyer firms  Pursued by guard dogs  My ideal sunset walk along lonely travel the travel advisor shore of a desert Vietnamese went wrong after spotting a sprawling mansion in the dunes, with a sinister lonely travel aspect of the observation tower. In the tower was one of the guards lonely travel in khaki crying to me angrily and clutching his AK . He also won the calf , heard snarling , panting noise and glanced back to see three huge guard dogs running towards me. Desperate to  travel advisor avoid hunting, I forced myself not to run , and accompanied by dogs and intimidating , but I well trained lonely travel further, let me wreck of chatter at the other end of the beach.  Anna Tyler, editor of destination  Gore, on the bypass , Iceland  The bird was tucked safely in the long lonely travel travel advisor grass at the edge on the side of the road. As I drove along at a maximum speed of 90 km / h , I had plenty of time to enjoy the speckled feathers and graceful spout off.  What I did not know is that birds and cursed with an unfortunate timing. Or lonely travel maybe he ate a black bird in his brain , and the prospect of days of searching endless stretch to without a goal in mind . It might -s perhaps lonely traveled more , after another failed mating season . We may never know .  In all cases , the time just before my car safely enlarge the past, the same sniper shot in the air - and chunked directly into my windshield with spots uncomfortable . After the collision, wore a bird on my car. All that remains after lonely travel that lonely travel split lonely travel second was thin windshield bloody . I moaned queasily travel advisor treated as the wipers bloody evidence through the glass .  Anita Salsa is an editor and writer and travel advisor prudent driver. Follow the @ lunar synthesis .  Error device in Bolivia  When I was nineteen I went to Bolivia and me and my friend Phil bought dynamite to give workers in a mine near the town of Photos travel advisor - they make very little money and live a dangerous life , so when you visit , you can give them a little almost like a spike. Unfortunately, we forgot to give it to them and so decided to jump http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDR-s desert lake travel advisor when we were on tour in the Katayama Desert.Lonely travel we lit the fuse nervously ran away, and I felt a little disappointed that the explosion, which resulted in not more dramatic. But he was lonely travel strong enough ! It turned out to be a desert lake was just before the border with Chile. A couple of soldiers came running in with guns and took us to an office, where the local commander shouted to the United States.   I lonely travel barely spoke any Spanish at the time and I kept mumbling lonely travel " travel advisor essay " , which means "B" instead of " if silent " , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDR-s which means " sorry." Luckily our guide commander knew well and leave after that gave him a roll of film for travel advisor the lonely travel camera to follow a few photos, before waving happily to us the next morning .  James Smart , the editor of destination  Midnight arrest in London  Workers are innocent tourists in my first lonely travel of the trip to the UK, booked a bed in a hostel in London with a bar, so I can meet people . " Hostel turned out to be a couple of bed above Boozer and old . Needless travel advisor to say that older men travel advisor do not want to be my friend . One night, about an hour there was a knock lonely travel at the door, followed by the lonely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDR-s travel torch shining in my face travel advisor. It was the police travel advisor , because I thought one of my colleagues in sleep, who found on the bed above me and arrested for grievous bodily harm after lonely travel a bloody battle with a low drinkers. Hello to you in England !  What in the lonely travel ?   Jessica Crouch , editorial team and Lonely Planet Online  And fear of food poisoning in safari  Unfortunately, travel advisor my husband travel advisor had a bout travel advisor of food lonely travel lonely travel poisoning while we were on safari and camping in the middle of a national lonely travel park in Tanzania travel advisor. Because of the threat of wild animals that you are supposed to go to the bathroom lonely travel travel advisor in pairs, but he was awake all night, and I 'm tired of going to him and he travel advisor should continue to run the gauntlet of his own . Feeling terrible and horrible disease from exposure to room - poor !