I'm a woman traveling around the world. Here are the 5 places I felt the least safe.

• Chloe Jade is a content creator who is documenting her travels around the world on Instagram.
• Jade told Business Insider that as a female traveler, she had felt unsafe at times.

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Chloe Jade, an influencer who has been documenting her travels around the world on Instagram. It has been edited for length and clarity.

I am an American content influencer with a dream of traveling the world.

I'm well on my way and have visited more than 80 countries already. I do most of my traveling on my own but often have friends and family who come along with me to certain parts of the world.

My travels, which I document on my Instagram channel, have been amazing so far, and I love meeting new people and experiencing new cultures.

Yet, there have been a few places where I have felt unsafe as a female traveler. Here are some of them:

Pattaya, Thailand

There are so many amazing places to visit in Thailand, but Pattaya — largely known as the country's sex capital — was definitely my least favorite.

I just felt like a lot of the foreign men that go there have only one thing in mind, and it's very specific. So, being there as a woman just made me feel very uncomfortable.

Honestly, I've generally always felt really safe in Asia, so this was a surprise for me. While the rest of Thailand is beautiful, I would just avoid Pattaya.

Belgrade, Serbia

Belgrade in Serbia was probably the most unsafe I've ever felt traveling, but I think it had a lot to do with the fact that I'm American.

When locals found out I was from the US, they would become very hostile. This happened to me so much that I stopped saying I was American because I realized that it was the inciting factor.

Once, I was in the back of a taxi, and the driver was telling me how much he hated America. He was not letting it go, and as a lone woman in the back of a car, that was a little scary — especially if somebody was showing no signs of lightheartedness.

It is crazy to me that I felt so unsafe in Belgrade, considering that I had just been traveling through the Balkans and never had any issues.

I think it also has to do with the war right now in Ukraine because one of the men said he had to defend his Russian family. So, I think that there's just a lot of hostility going on there politically at the moment.

Paris

When I visited Paris, I had a scary experience with a local man who pressured me into getting a drink with him. When I went to my hostel that night, I had cold sweats and felt unwell.

To this day, I feel like I was drugged. I think I am lucky that I got away from the man.

The reason I've put Paris on my list is because I think it is too romanticized in the movies, especially for an American audience.

Like other megacities in the world, Paris comes with its dangers, and I urge women to stay alert and vigilant if they're ever alone.

Marrakesh, Morroco

I loved my time in Morroco, and I highly recommend people to visit it.

Although I personally didn't feel unsafe, a friend who was visiting Marrakesh with me did.

The way the city is set up creates small little alleyways that can, at times, be scary to walk down alone. A lot of men were also pretty aggressive.

There are places where women have fewer rights, but I have actually felt the safest in those countries just because there are women-only areas, and it is not customary or allowed for men to approach women and catcall or things like that.

While I didn't feel that necessarily in Morroco, I did experience that a lot in the Middle East.

Kingston, Jamaica

When I was in Jamaica, I generally felt comfortable. But every local that I would meet would warn me about things that I could or could not do as a woman.

So, after a while, that gave me the impression that things were unsafe.

When I went to certain markets there, for example, I got so much pushback from Jamaicans telling me that I should not have gone there because it was unsafe.

I really liked it there, but I felt like I had to be extra vigilant while in public.

This is just based on my own experiences

At the end of the day, bad things can happen anywhere.

I could be in the safest country in the world and still feel uncomfortable because of something there.

I don't want to offend people; this list is just based on my own experiences.

In a way, I'm also very privileged to be able to do something like this and generally feel incredibly safe.