Originally Posted by
barthouston
Hi,
I am a young, female Asian who is hoping to travel solo to Prague. I've traveled alone to other cities in western Europe, but this will be my first trip to easter Europe...Naturally, the question of safety came to my mind...
I'm planning to just hit all the tourist spots, but I still wanted to know if it'll be safe for a foreigner (and minority) to travel around the city alone?
Thanks!
Hi
barthouston and welcome to FT.
You will be fine.
The Czech Republic is hardly even Eastern Europe, much more Central Europe (don't forget - long borders with Germany and Austria). And it's been 20 years since the Iron Curtain came down.
Now, if you were going to rural Belarus or Ukraine, that would be another matter, but Prague is one of the most heavily touristed cities in Central Europe and there are literally people from all over the world, including people directly from the Far East (i.e., tour groups from Japan and China). You will not even get a second glance.
In fact, the first time I went to Prague in the mid-1990s, one of our group was a small Korean-American woman (5ft tall) and she never, ever once stood out in the slightest.
You've got nothing to worry about at all.