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, Be extremely alert in the dark. One of the things that protect travellers to Assam is the vast crowds in any place. The multitudes however, disappear into their homes at night, and you go from having a huge thick safety quilt to a flimsy sheet! Try your best to be in a familiar area when it gets dark. If you are not, at least know how you can get to that area from wherever it is that you happen to be.

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 .