Travel for Fun — Sex Tourism in Disguise

Erika Chaudhary
4 min readApr 24, 2020

The shocking truth about young boys on beach in Zanzibar

Travelling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. Ibn Battuta

Travel has become a norm for most of us in the West.

We all love to travel.

Many people I know in London, who work super hard likes to travel. It has become a norm to go away for a weekend somewhere in Europe like Italy, Spain, Portugal or even further like Turkey or Zanzibar..! When I was working for the corporate I used to take all the weekends I could and go to Italy for short breaks.

I loved it. It was different. It was something new. I could practise my very bad Italian. I could eat different food, see different architecture and learn about the culture. I was never a fanatic of a traveller. It was something to do instead of spending a rainy weekend in London. However, there is another side to this.

Because I am a woman, on my own I’d get some people come up to me and offer various things such as a tour guide, or go to this restaurant or that restaurant. It’s all innocent and I thought nothing of it. However, when my husband and I went to Zanzibar before the world’s pandemic something sinister was apparent. I was shocked!

Zanzibar

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Erika Chaudhary

I am a writer who learned to code! I write about personal experiences within a humanist and global context. Find me on Twitter & Instagram @erikachaudhary