Near-death travelling tales from #TravelCorkboard
Guardian Travel readers' holiday horror stories - thanks to everyone who contributed
- #TravelCorkboard Came upon pods of hippos in Kenya. One rose up from underneath our boat, almost capsizing us | yfrog.com/es12u6j
#travelcorkboard Walked into Tenderloin district of San Francisco, saw dead body on street with perpetrators, had to walk past them
Slept under the stars in the national forest north of Juneau in Alaska with food on me unaware it was bear country. Oops! #travelcorkboard
Terrifying coach crash in Thailand on our honeymoon 1992. I thought 'This is it... but at least I die happy' #TravelCorkboard
#TravelCorkboard French riot police, crazy Algerian football fans and flying bricks and bottles on Marseille beach at the World Cup in '98
#TravelCorkboard Watching cabin crew stuffing antimacassars around the door frame as the BEA aircraft plummeted to a safe height. Circa 1950
@GemmaTravel #travelcorkboard Got stuck driving on a beach in Haida Gwaii, Canada. Tide came in fast, we made it out but waves got the truck
@GemmaTravel #TravelCorkboard Should have been in hotel destroyed in tsunami. Hospitalized instead in Colombo - dengue fever saved my life.
@GemmaTravel Guatamala:watched lorry next 2 our overcrowded bus slide off sheer mountain rd as dozens of hitchhikers leapt out the back.
#TravelCorkboard Drunk motorcyclist crashed into the Cambodian bus I was on then proceeded to shoot the bus up & light it on fire. We ran!!
Missed being in '09 Khan al Kahlili bombing in Cairo by minutes because I went back into market to buy a shawl. #TravelCorkboard
@GemmaTravel #TravelCorkboard We were in Donetsk, a mate beat all and sundry at arm wrestling in the bikers' bar, so they pulled a gun on us
#TravelCorkboard Diving for cover in Rio bar as gunfire peppered street opposite favela, then offered coke by man with parrot on shoulder.
#TravelCorkboard Heading into Kosovo when our bus blew up. I handed the live chicken on my lap back to its owner & chose to stay in Serbia.
#travelcorkboard. Flat in Sydney infested by hundreds of baby spiders. Found dinner-plate sized mother nesting in bedroom. Oh, the terror.
#travelcorkboard Narrowly missed being crushed to death by a falling giraffe in the Kalahari. Nasty, but quite funny, way to go.
#TravelCorkBoard 12 days with no food. 3days with no water. In Thailand hospital, on a bed in a wailing ward of dying peopl, nxt to a sewer!
#TravelCorkboard Spent (most of) night up Aspen mountain.. first Mardi Gras, first time drunk at altitude, couldn't find bus down #notwarm
#TravelCorkboard Monastery in Lhasa on festival day: caught in a huge crowd crush of devout Tibetans. Lucky to struggle out. Buddhist squash
#TravelCorkboard I had a punctured lung and broken rib after a dolphin attacked me in Cuba!
#travelcorkboard Stand off in middle of jungle with guides and porters after Kilimanjaro climb. Athsma attack ensued...with no doctor
@GuardianTravel Taxi ambushed at Lima airport by street kids. Smashed all windows with crow bar,luckily we got away in time #TravelCorkBoard
#TravelCorkBoard Misunderstood US traffic lights leading to us turning into four lanes of oncoming vehicles on the freeway.
