By being a foreigner and by travelling to touristy places the author is immediately in the high risk category. There are a lot of people trying to fleece touris

By being a foreigner and by travelling to touristy places the author is immediately in the high risk category. There are a lot of people trying to fleece tourists, especially foreigners. This colors some of his prespective, for eg. >But with only a couple hundred dollars lost, I got away fairly unscathed..