Southeast Asia, as the first choice for overseas travel in recent years, has beautiful scenery, rich products and low prices, as well as a large number of handsome guys and beautiful girls with tropical style.
In addition, with the geographical advantage of being close to China, it attracts people from all over the world, including Chinese.
However, recently, various vicious cases in Southeast Asia have occurred frequently on the Internet, among which vicious cases against Chinese have particularly attracted the attention of Chinese people.
From the fraud gangs in northern Myanmar last year, luring Chinese people to engage in fraudulent activities with high salaries, to the Chinese gangsters in Cambodia's Westport fighting and suffering heavy casualties, to the kidnapping of Thai Chinese tourists to Laos, the Golden Triangle of Myanmar and then no news, and Filipino Chinese female tourists were trafficked to South America by local smugglers, and Chinese tourists in Indonesia were kidnapped and their organs were removed.
For a time, the Southeast Asian countries, which were originally beautiful and simple, seemed to be completely opposite to the propaganda, becoming naked demons and hell.
This has discouraged many Singaporeans who originally wanted to use Southeast Asia as a tourist destination.
So what does the real Southeast Asia look like?
It can only be said that it is not as good as you think, but it is not so bad either.
Southeast Asia, because of its tropical or subtropical location, has extremely high temperatures all year round, and the crime rate in areas with high temperatures, especially for women, is high.
In addition, most Southeast Asian countries are economically backward and politically corrupt. Some countries are even full of warlords and do not have a strong central government.
Naturally, the environment here, especially in rural and remote areas, is very bad, and secondly, due to the widespread and crude collusion between officials and businessmen and military and business, the local government has turned a blind eye to some vicious incidents.
At the same time, in recent years, due to the vigorous rectification of fraud, triads and other actions, many people in the domestic gray industry have moved to Southeast Asian countries.
Chinese know Chinese best, they will not be invisible to the large number of Chinese tourists traveling to Southeast Asia, so they have extended their black hands to unsuspecting Chinese tourists.
Of course, the above content is only the situation in some parts of Southeast Asian countries, and the security environment in some countries and regions is still very good, such as Singapore, Malaysia and so on.
In addition, like Bangkok in Thailand, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Brunei, etc., the local security is still quite good.
Therefore, when traveling to Southeast Asia, as long as you do not travel to those remote places, only travel in local big cities or famous tourist attractions, and do not trust strangers at will, safety can still be guaranteed.
However, being in a foreign country will certainly not be like in China, first of all, you must abide by local laws and regulations, but also respect local customs, and call the police or contact the Chinese embassy or consulate in the local area in time if you encounter problems.
Also, try not to travel to the local area alone, you can sign up for some reliable tour groups to go with.