Should I accept a stranger's help when I travel?

Hi friend, I think it is important to get help and also to help others. It is sometimes difficult to know the things when you are in a strange place so no other but to get the help from the others. I do get help from others without any hesitation and also I help others without any hesitation. Surely it is the way we live and it is the way the world grows. Have a nice day ahead.

I have often depended on strangers to help me when I was traveling in China, in America, and in other places. I often would try to depend on myself if I could read the signs (English or Spanish to a point), but when I was in China, I couldn't read the signs. At some point in time, even your best friend was a stranger. If you try to make friends with people, life would be a lot better. If you are always afraid to talk to strangers, then you will be afraid of living. It is better to communicate with people and get to know them than to not do so. Most people are inherently good. Not to say they all are, but if you let the few who are bad prevent you from meeting the good ones, you do yourself a disservice. Hopefully all your travels are safe!

It depends on. When I am outside, I always keep alert to avoid being cheated. If I have a travel, I also find many friendly and nice people on the way. I think sometimes I rely on my sense to judge whether I can get help from the strangers or not:) I love China

For me not so that you are not lose your way to have fun in travel just ask only to the police or guard.

Well, I traveled a lot when I was in college. I traveled Yunnan province for 20 days, Zhangjiajie and Guilin for 18 days, Shanxi province for 10 days, and Guizhou province for 7 days. All the traveling were all by myself. I think, get help from strangers is very important because you can't know everything about the local place, you always need help from the natives, such like directions, economic hotels, beautiful sightseeings, and local culture. But always be aware those who come to you. Most times, they want something from you. If you accept help from a stranger, make sure that you can get rid of him whenever you want. Especially you are a girl. There are bad guys out there, we have to be careful. And alway do not be shy for asking. I think the most useful people are those who are in the tour agency. You can ask them nearly everything about the tourism. And always buy a map when you get to the new city. It is very useful. In short, feel free to ask others and be aware when strangers come to you. But, the best way for girls traveling, is get some company~~

I've got trust issues. I don't trust people I don't know. Even if I had to walk a bit farther I don't care. As long as I feel I'm safer to travel by foot than accept a strangers offer. Who knows? He could be a rapist or a psychopath. Can take the risk. I am just very cautious.

I really love to travel to different countries. Sometimes I get chatting to a stranger and he or she becomes my friend. I was in Malaysia when I fell down an open drain and injured my leg. Two local people and a guy from New Zealand helped me back to the guest house. My leg was in a lot of pain. It was Chinese New Year coming up so nobody would be staying there in Mersing. I was given a pair of crutches by a Swedish guy. I was helped over to Tioman Island. My leg was swollen and very painful indeed. The bandage on my leg wouldn't come off easily so I went into the sea to get it off. A South African couple helped me back to Mersing when Chinese Year Year was over. I arranged a taxi to the border of Malaysia and Singapore. It was going to be four times what the bus fare would have been. I found a Dutch couple that wanted to come and they paid me the bus fare. This let me be able to afford four hour taxi ride. When I arrived at the border I took another taxi and some foreign backpackers carried my luggage up to the backpackers hostel I was going to stay at. So all these strangers helped me when I was most in need of assistance. The airline gave me a seat with enough leg room to keep my leg straight. That was the end of my trip around the world.

This would all have to depend on the kind of help that a stranger was offering to me. Care and caution should be taken when traveling. There are some people who are just kind and helpful. then there are those who are looking for a victim. I am typically a trusting person, but still it is wise to be aware. i have taken help from a stranger in the past. i have been helped and i have been burned.

First of all hangzhou is very nice city. I also do afrad\id to take help from stringer. But i do take help from strainer.Last year i went to yiwu near hangzhou and we were 4 friends together but we didn't know much about the city so we took help from one Chinese lady whom we met in train. We were in same taxi and scared a little but she was nice and help us.So you can take help from stranger and i think you should. As you should trust the people as all are not bad.

We should always be careful about accepting help from strangers. It is how you avoid placing yourself in unnecessary danger. But of course, there are times when you cannot avoid it. Best advice i can give is to listen to your gut. That inner warning bell. You'll see your a better judge of character than you realize. Always be careful.

Do you believe in life and human? If you say "yes", you'll know what you want to do with the helps from a strange persons. I think that stranger's helps are not problems but we should be careful a bit with them. When we're in a strange country. And we don't have a friend here. We need helps from strange persons.

accepting assistance from someone you don't know might be very risky especially if you are trabelling to another country. just always be careful so that you will not find yourself in trouble though.

yes it's ok for me. As if we fall in any problem and there's no way than we should take help. I myself always help people about this matter. Often many people ask me where's this place or something else. But i help them. Couple years ago i help a old women to find his home. She believe me to help her so for me i will try to believe someone else when i need help.

Hi friend, Its not recommended to take strangers hell while travelling instead carry a gadget such as i-pad

hey, last year i'm in china! in guangzhou. and i barely speak chinese. i spend 10 months there to learn chinese. anyway, from my experience there, its ok to accept stranger's help. but dont put too much trust. asking direction or places to go is fine. are you chinese or foreigner there? if you can speak their language, then you'll be fine^^

I think it's okay cause where you went is also in China so more or less you know the language, even if you are not from that province then more or less the laws are the same. It also depends on what kind of help you ask them ( you did not mention), just see to it that is not misinterpreted. It's not the same if you are travelling in another country especially if it's a poor third world one, might even be dangerous sometimes.

For me i like to ask people and i don't feel shy ever from doing that..even i like to offer help for any person inn street if can ...But i hate when you are asking for certain street and people give you wrong direction because they are shy from saying i don't know

You could be but cautious because we can't easily trust strangers.

A typical Chinese question! Chinese people are afraid of stranger's help and most of us don't offer help to strangers(I think it's very bad, I feel sad about this). For me, if a stranger offer me help voluntarily without my asking, I would say "NO, thank you". But, if a stranger come to me for help and I think he/she wouldn't hurt me, I would happy to give a hand.

we cant say every stranger is a bad person , so getting help from the strangers we should b in careful,sometimes by facial expressions we can say a stranger is a good or bad and in sometimes we may fail, anyway when travelling to new places its better to have another person with us , if we r alone we cant enjoy much and in ur case u r a girl so its better to have another person with you when travelling to new places . when we r alone there is a possibility to get cheated by the strangers in new places , if we r 2 or more there is less chance to get cheated by the strangers. what u say ??????????