If you are going for the first time on holidays or if you got to know someone from a Dating site which is an African site or any other and you want to go Africa to meet her/him then this all would help you a lot.
The first thing which you need to be really happy for is you can afford to go Africa otherwise there are lots of people who cannot even think of this. As it’s not a direct flight so expensive too so they think of the other cheap and time taking ways.
What is your mode of going there? Having family there? Going to meet someone? Or going to enjoy a package tour? Whatever reason is there you must need to be careful for your safety.
How are you travelling?
If you are going to meet a person and along with that you are alone then you must have to be very careful if you don’t know that person really well and that person is not trustworthy according to you. In case, you think so then you have to do some measures to save yourself if you face any trouble.
You must have the phone number of your country embassy with you. First you need to do some bookings like a hotel booking. You can do it through email as some hotels accept email bookings but it would be good if you will use an international cheap call and make reservation through phone.
Try not to book in very expensive and strict hotels like Sheraton or Holiday Inn as they may extra charge you for taking guest to your room.
Health
Going to Africa needs some precautionary measures before. You might be exposed to some hazardous risks. The most common diseases which can take you over are Malaria and HIV/AIDS.
You must need to visit your travel clinic, GP or a doctor but do it a few weeks before going as the measures will take some time otherwise you will have to find some private travel clinic. It doesn’t matter whether your origin is Africa but you might be still not to the latest viruses or diseases.
As all the bugs become more powerful with passing years and human despite of being of the same origin cannot remain potentially powerful for the same things.
Malaria
Before travelling you need to analyze or research for the area that whether it’s having any kind of infection creating creatures. So if you are going to visit some malarial area then you need to prevent yourself with the help of proper medication by the prescription of the doctor.
Get to know all the symptoms regarding malaria so that if you’ll catch it then you will be able to figure out its symptoms. These symptoms generally are: headache, nausea, fever, vomiting and flu. These symptoms will not remain the same for every type of malaria causing specie.
The time between you get bite by a malarial mosquito and the appearance of its symptoms can be from one week to several months so if you get into any of its symptoms after coming back from your trip then you must have to inform your doctor from whom you are getting treated that you have been to a malarial-area.
Sexual Health
Now talking about the activeness of you sexually, if you are active then you need to strictly make the use of condoms sure. African condoms are good but most of the people disgrace them even they are cheap as well.
Diseases like HIV/AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea are really common and get transmitted in this contact. HIV/AIDS is just a killing disease straight away. Get your all tests done if you are going to start your married life but in the mean while take care.
In case, you or your partner gets into the trouble of HIV/AIDS then you need not to take it to your heart. There are lots of organizations out there who will help you get rid of this disease.
They will offer you different courses and you will be free to choose according to your will. You will find much more information regarding this issue time to time on this site.
Country Background
There is a lot of information available on the internet for the travelers about different countries in detail. The best available information is from Foreign and commonwealth office in UK and the US department of state. You need to just read them but not to take their effect deeply as if you do so, you will not be able to do travelling.
There is a tradition from bureaucrats that they always degrade foreign and appreciate the indigenous. Let’s give you an example. Al-Qaida attacked both of the countries Spain and Bali but the fact is you will find warnings for not going to Bali as there are terrorist activities but you will not find the same for Spain.
The reason behind all this is that no government will want itself sued for giving wrong advices. If you think that you must take the government’s advice and while following it you visit some country which is advised by your government and in case you get bombed, you do have the right to sue your government.
These advices are not purely right for example there has been no evidence about the Kenyan people that they roam around with drugged sweets and try to put them in any foreigner’s mouth but still there is a statement from the FCO that “Do not accept food or drink from strangers as it may be drugged". One should take it as a rumor based on some old fake story.
Still, I don’t want to have any risk of giving false statements. You should read all this valuable information and warnings as they depict the reality to some extent. Take a lot of care for you and you must have the knowledge of health, visa requirements and all the things which are prohibited and allowed.
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