Safety
Rajasthan is a safe destination for travellers who follow the rules and play safe. While the people are hospitable and sincere, travellers are advised to practise a fair degree of caution and not trust blindly. Try to deal with accredited or licensed travel agents, guides and tour operators only. Be extremely alert after sunset and try your best to be in a familiar area when it gets dark. One of the things that protect travellers here is the vast crowd in most places. The multitudes however, disappear into their homes at night, and you go from having a huge thick safety quilt to a flimsy sheet! Political disturbances and riots are usually localised and everyone's aware well in advance of potentially troubled days ahead. Cases of mugging, theft and pick pocketing often happen and tourists are the favourite target of touts and scamsters though by and large serious crimes against travellers are rare. Women travelling alone, particularly need to be over cautious, as the state is notoriously chauvinistic in its attitude to women, and lone women are often considered fair game.

Basic precautions:
•   Keep your money and travel documents close to your body (perhaps in a      pouch slung around your neck, tucked out of sight under your shirt),

•   Keep several photocopies of your passport, insurance, travellers' cheques      etc. scattered through your luggage,

•   Do not use a waist pouch, it may as well be a transparent plastic bag: it's      that fragile and that obvious!

•   Do not put all your money in one place,

•   Many women travellers wear the long tunic and loose pyjama dress of      Indian women called the salwar-kameez and find that it substantially      dissuades unwanted male attention.

•    If you are travelling alone, do not advertise it.

•    If you lose your passport lodge a First Information Report at the local       police station and contact your embassy.

It's hopefully been a great tour of town.