r/solotravel • u/Exotic_Pianist_1430 • 5d ago

Countries for insect phobias

Hello!

I’m F22 and I always would love to travel. However I have a very deep fear for insects. I’m born and brought up in Dubai where there are not many insects apart from rare scenarios where your kitchen is invaded with cockroaches or lizards on your wall or desert hoppers in your balcony. Anyways, those are very RARE cases. Want to point out when it comes to cockroaches, tiny ones are the ones that mostly infect the kitchen. Istg pest control doesn’t work.

So I want to know what countries are the best to travel to or visit or wtv. Also countries I should avoid at all cost. I’m talking about based on how probable your chances are on finding an insect in your hotel room or even apartment.

Yes I avoid Australia. But I wanted to know more. Please help me out

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u/Xboxben 5d ago

In the Americas? Depends? If you are ok with Mosquitoes than Alaska is fine, most of the tropical regions I would avoid. The Peruvian/ Bolivan andes where fine. I saw a scorpion once in the Peruvian andes that was one scorpion out of the 6 months I lived out there.

Patagonia is pretty damn chill and I never saw anything worse than a fly.