I am a female solo traveler who has been to 39 countries – here is the common mistake that almost everyone makes

A solo traveler who has been on five continents to nearly 40 countries shared her opinion about trips – warning that some people might be ‘unpopular’.

Karina Henry, who the @karinaworldwide Instagram account and has more than 131,000 followers on the site, shared 15 of her strongest views.

She starts by tackling the error that people make when they hurry to visit as many countries as possible, write: “Traveling is not a race – nobody cares about your passport stamp.”

Instead of the number of countries visited, people have to impress their experiences instead.

“Let’s exchange” Whew, I would definitely go back “stories, not just through cross -border bingo.”

Under the comments that agreed with her, a user wrote: “I am more impressed by someone who has only visited 5 countries but spent a longer time there than with someone who has visited 10 in 3 weeks.”

She warns against ‘using Africans as props in your travel photos’ and says, “Poverty is not aesthetics.”

“If you didn’t take that photo in Paris or Tokyo, ask yourself why it feels acceptable in Ghana or Kenya,” she added.

Karina Henry, who runs the @karinaworldwide Instagram account and has more than 131,000 followers on the site, shared 15 of her strongest views

Receive her post for 5,000 likes, with many reactions – although not everyone agreed with the traveler

“Your journey should not be at the expense of someone’s dignity.”

One of the most popular answers was in particular agreed with this point.

‘I hate to see children in villages in Southeast Asia in the photo barrousels of people. If you didn’t take a picture of less fortunate American, don’t do it in another country, “wrote @jadethetraveler.

However, one person asks this opinion.

‘You have photos that pose with a local in a very traditional, simple dress, while you are dressed to the nines. ??, “wrote Katie Mendonça.

“I don’t understand the difference? Loved much of what you have shared … But this one seems hypocritical. ‘

Another position that people did not agree with was tips around, of which Karina believes that “should not be optional just because you are abroad.”

‘De kantelcultuur is heel anders (geef of niet, hoeveel of daadwerkelijk onderhandel), ik denk dat het het beste is om van tevoren te bestuderen hoe ze het doen en daarbij te herbergen in plaats van je eigen fooi te brengen’, zei @cskmtrsztszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszszsz

The maker of the content is of the opinion that tipping ‘should not be optional, just because you are abroad’

Karina has built a large following online, with more than 440,000 followers in Instagram and Tiktok

Another, who identified himself as Australian, wrote: “Tipping can actually be considered extremely rude in many countries – especially places such as Japan – so it’s always best to actually investigate the tip culture.”

Karina also shared her position on how Solo trips is not a personality characteristic, why there is no shame in dating abroad and how travel should not be transformational.

Most of the answers were positive, although an Instagram user wrote: “I come where she comes from, but many of these come from a strange, rather judicial place.”

The maker of the travel content, which has more than 300,000 followers on Tiktok, previously opened about her most frightening experiences abroadRanging from a tourist scam to a parasitic infection that she received from eating cat meat.

“In China I was physically attacked by a drunken man who said he didn’t like me, simply because I was American,” she shared.

The images showed a man who screamed at her in Chinese as she begged him to leave her alone and said: “I did nothing. I just want to go home. ‘

Karina then shared that she received an incurable parasitic infection after eating cat meat in Ghana, but she did not go into detail about her fear of health.

“In Egypt I was lured to a store by a ‘guide’ and then caught in until I agreed to pay for a belly dancer outfit that I ‘broke’ – only to realize later that it was a scam,” she went on.

She focused on using poverty as an aesthetics: “If you didn’t take that photo in Paris or Tokyo, ask yourself why it feels acceptable in Ghana or Kenya” (shown: the French capital)

Another Solo Travel Content Creator recently shared her honest views on where she feels unsafe as a woman – And one of her choices is a hugely popular European destination.

Savanna Crowell, in a video that has been viewed nearly 500,000 times, the New York -based traveler revealed three places where she did not feel safe.

She told her 54,000 followers that she had had a few uncomfortable situations in one of the countries

Another one who claimed was where she experienced the most catcalling.