https://heyatli.com/blog/tags/solo-travel/Recent content in Solo Travel on Atli eSIM BlogHugoen-USWed, 21 Oct 2026 17:35:00 -0700https://heyatli.com/blog/whatsapp-location-sharing/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:35:00 -0700https://heyatli.com/blog/whatsapp-location-sharing/<p>WhatsApp has two ways to share where you are: a static pin showing a fixed point on a map, and Live Location that updates your position in real time for a set amount of time. Both are inside WhatsApp, send to anyone in your contact list, and work without any third-party app. For travellers, and for solo ones in particular, they are genuinely useful.</p> <aside class="verdict"> <p class="verdict__head">The short answer</p> A dropped pin marks a fixed meeting point or address that stays put. Live Location tracks your movement in real time for a set duration: 15 minutes, 1 hour or 8 hours, and you can stop sharing whenever you choose. The recipient does not need to share back. Both features work in one-to-one and group chats. </aside> <h2 id="dropping-a-pin">Dropping a pin</h2> <p>A pin shares your current location as a static point on a map. It does not update.</p>https://heyatli.com/blog/is-bali-safe/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:53:00 -0700https://heyatli.com/blog/is-bali-safe/<p>Bali&rsquo;s reputation for being gentle with visitors is mostly deserved. Violent crime against tourists is rare, and you can walk back to a villa down an unlit Ubud lane at eleven at night without giving it much thought.</p> <p>That is not the same as low risk. What fills the emergency room at BIMC Kuta is not muggings. It is motorbikes, and after that water, bad spirits and untreated tap water, in roughly that order of how badly travellers underestimate them.</p>https://heyatli.com/blog/is-mexico-city-safe/Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:09:00 -0700https://heyatli.com/blog/is-mexico-city-safe/<p>Tell people you are going to Mexico City alone and someone will pull a face. The reputation is built on cartel headlines from states most visitors never enter, and it does not describe an afternoon on Avenida Ámsterdam.</p> <p>The honest answer: the US State Department has Mexico at Level 2, exercise increased caution, and Mexico City itself carries no additional restriction, which puts it in the same tier as France or Italy rather than the border states. Violent crime against travelers in the central neighborhoods is rare. Theft is not. Almost everything that goes wrong on a trip here is a phone off a cafe table, a hand in a bag on a packed Metro car, a card skimmed at a sidewalk ATM, or a taxi fare invented on the spot.</p>https://heyatli.com/blog/is-bangkok-safe/Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:53:00 -0700https://heyatli.com/blog/is-bangkok-safe/<p>Bangkok is one of the most visited capitals in the world and one of the least physically dangerous for the people visiting it. Violent street crime against foreigners is uncommon enough to be news when it happens, and you can eat at a night market at one in the morning surrounded by people doing exactly the same thing.</p> <p>What Bangkok has instead is a dense, well-practised economy of small extraction: the friendly stranger outside a temple, the driver who will not use the meter, the boat tout at the pier. None of it will hurt you. Most of it will cost you an afternoon and a few thousand baht if you have not heard the script before.</p>https://heyatli.com/blog/is-marrakech-safe/Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:58:00 -0700https://heyatli.com/blog/is-marrakech-safe/<p>Marrakech is safe in the way a large, busy market town is safe. Violent crime against visitors is rare, the police presence around the medina is heavy and partly in plain clothes, and the US State Department keeps Morocco at Level 2, its second-lowest tier, on terrorism grounds rather than street crime.</p> <p>What you meet instead is commercial pressure, applied constantly by people who are very good at it. A stranger tells you the square is closed today. Someone takes your wrist and starts drawing on it. A driver explains that his meter is broken. None of that is dangerous. All of it is wearing, and it is far easier to handle the second time you see it, which is the argument for reading it once before you go.</p>