Do not visit Brazil, ever!
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I'm really sorry to hear that, and I'm glad you got out OK. That would have been a horrible ordeal.
I agree with you about parts of Brazil, I started off in the south where it felt generally pretty safe, but as you move closer north towards SP and RD, you do feel less comfortable.
In Buenos Aires I got bad vibes from some of the local peeps as soon as I walked out the door at Exeixa. Some of the people offering taxi rides look like people offering a free ride to a robbery, beating and abandonment in an unknown back-alley.
Two Irish girls I went to a bar with in San Telmo also got robbed at gun-point on the street in broad daylight, and I had only parted company with them maybe 30 minutes earlier.
I was really lucky, the only thing that happened to me was at a busy intersection. I felt some tugging at my back, I turn around and a dodgy guy was walking away from me. I checked my backpack, and both the big pockets on it had been unzipped, he just hadn't had the time to get my camera out before I noticed. Now I get why people walk around with backpacks on their chest.
I absolutely loved Brazil and Argentina, but you have to be super careful, and sometimes you're just gonna be really unlucky.
Hope your eye heals up 100% soon, Chris!- The amount of times I've heard of similar stories in BA is incredibleChimp