Travel Safety Gear Essentials you need

Travel safety gear Essentials that you need

Travel safety gear Essentials are a must especially if you’re a solo traveler not withholding gender. Every solo traveler is vulnerable.

Am writing this in the wake of an incident that happened in Zanzibar involving a female Solo traveler who was on a vacation on this breathe taking Island.

She was celebrating her birthday and that night she went to her room after her birthday escapades only to get shock of her life.

Please note she had no travel and safety gear essentials. Just as she was about to catch some Zs like a log in the Masai Mara Jungle.

She felt someone stroking her, she thought she was in dreamland but the person was persistent. It is at this juncture she woke up in perplexity to confirm whether it was actually a dream.

A bolt out of the blue was a male human in her room. Tenfold questions ran through her incertitude mind. How did he get in, is he human? Should I scream, Is this my last breath?

She froze, all she remembered was bubbling some words, “Please don’t kill me, don’t rape me. Unfortunately, the said assailant did not understand English, only Swahili and she didn’t know Swahili.

To summarize the story, she convinced the mugger to go out to fetch protection since she has HIV/Aids. The said assailant obliged.

Once he was out, she grabbed some clothes and dashed out to save herself.

Well, some say this was such a gut-wrenching experience for anyone to go through. While others didn’t believe her story.

Be it true or not, I am not in a place to judge but this can happen to anyone. This is why I’m writing about travel safety gear essentials you will need to pack especially if you’re a solo traveler.

A Rubber Door Stop

Door Stop Travel Gear Essentials
Door Stop Travel Gear Essentials

This one is a no-brainer; you should have it even at home. The rubber Door comes in handy in case of a break-in both at home, hotel room, or on Airbnb.

It is not only affordable but also easy to use. All you need to do is insert one under the door while inside and your break-in security issues will be sorted.

Prudent Personal Alarm

Alarm Travel Gear Essentials
Alarm Travel Gear Essentials

It is ideal to use both at home while traveling and in outdoor activities like game drives, hiking, and Mountain Climbing. Since the alarm is louder than that of an Ambulance.

This means it scares both people and animals and in case of an attack, once pressed they will scatter for their life.

It has a strap that can be worn as a wristband.

SABRE Safe Escape-Travel safety gear

You will never know when you want to escape from an incident or accident. Sabre Safe Escape comes 3 in one.

  • Pepper Gel
  • Safety Belt Cutter
  • Window Glass Breaker

Sabre Escape will come in handy in the case of the three incidents mentioned above. It is quite affordable yet saves lives.

It is a small but powerful travel safety gear essential every traveler should own.

Garmin watches-Travel safety gear

Travel Gear Essentials
Travel Gear Essentials

The only downside of this watch is the price, otherwise, it is one of the top travel safety essentials every outdoor person should have.

In case you get an accident hiking in the Mountains, no network and nobody is around. This is the watch to save your life.

It is a Built-in 3-axis compass and barometric altimeter, plus multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, Glonass, and Galileo) support helps track in more challenging environments than GPS alone.

LED Slap Bracelets

Travel Gear Essentials
Travel Gear Essentials

The LED slap bracelet lights provide great visibility at night making it an essential travel safety gear for running, jogging at the beach, camping, and cycling after dusk.

The light-up slap bracelet wraps around so that they fit and hold onto any size wrist, upper arm, ankle, neck, or a strap on your bag/bookbag, fun for the kids!

It has 3 different light modes, each time you press on the button – the light cycles through fast flashing, slow flashing, and a steady “on” light, then finally “off.

Farran Safety Whistle-Travel safety gear

Travel Gear Essentials
Travel Gear Essentials

This one is not new to you but we seem to ignore it but it can save your life indoors or outdoors. The whistle will scare away animals and assailants if used in time.

It is an essential travel safety gear we tend to ignore yet it takes little to no space while packing to travel.

4 PACK EMERGENCY BLANKET SET

Travel Gear Essentials
Travel Gear Essentials

Each pack comes with 4 individually wrapped and reusable mylar blankets that fit into a highly durable EVA case.

They are designed to be the most compact and convenient thermal blankets on the market. You can store the whole set in your car or take an individual survival blanket on your camping and hiking adventures.

They are designed by NASA; these Mylar blankets are highly insulated and designed to reflect 90% of your body’s heat.

Making them ideal for Protecting you from extreme cold weather. As if that is not enough, it helps prevent hypothermia in serious emergency situations, making it the perfect outdoor gear for camping, hiking, marathon, and trail running. Again, it takes little to no space while packing for your Safari.

G-Check Date Rape Drug Test Kit Sticker.

Travel Gear Essentials
Travel Gear Essentials

Are you a solo traveler and you decide to Party in your newest town happy to be? Or you decide to go on a date but you don’t trust the person you’re with? We shouldn’t trust anyone anyway.

Well, I got news for you, there are chances that when you leave your drink on the table. Maybe to go to the washroom.

Your supposed date might spike your drink maybe rape you or simply steal from you. It’s time to put this on our past now.

We call it “kuekewa Mchele” (drink spiked) notorious in Nairobi.

This will be of the past if you invest in G-Check Drug Test Kit Sticker. Which is quite easy to use as I will explain.

Now, they are sticky stickers that you can stick on your phone or bag/Wallet. It has a protective clear paper which you peel off when you want to test your drink by dropping a drop of your drink.

If it changes color, abort the mission, the drink is already spiked. If it doesn’t change, you’re good to continue with your date.

Conclusion.

I tried not to be cliché in my list of Travel safety gear essentials you need. Did you learn something new? Let me know in the comment section.

Some of the Travel safety gear essentials may not apply to your type of Safari or travel but will be in another type of escape.

It is up to you to choose which one is a must-use for your hiking, Beach Vacation, or in your bush Safari.

As much as you may have all the safety gear, always stay vigilant and sensible whenever traveling. Open up and listen to your cues always.

Until next time Hakuna Matata, Seeya!
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