What's the scariest moment you've ever had when travelling?

"I arrived in Mumbai in the middle of the night when airport 'staff' bundled me into the back of a van - kidnapped. I barricaded myself in a room, paid a $50 escape fee and returned to the airport intact." - nomadnic

"Serengeti National Park in 2009. A leopard cub got stuck underneath our open top jeep, when its mother came looking for it and was seconds from jumping into our jeep looking for her baby. One guy in the jeep was just quick enough to pull over the roof." - tandum

"Travelling Bolivia's "death road" by coach, when the driver cut tight a corner and the back wheels slid over the edge of a 200m drop." - sam_j_young

"Our Antarctic ship hit an iceberg in the Drake Passage in the early hours during a party. We were nearly evacuated in a merry state." - Usher.chloe 

"Having my foot sliced open by a stingray and not having a first aid kit available. I had to use alcohol to clean the wound." - Teenyann

Winner - "Washington DC, 2010. Driving through a tornado amid hammering rain and violent wind. The guide said, "don't worry, this happens" interrupted by a tree crashing into the coach through the roof." - joshjohns

"Waking up to someone cutting the mesh out from our hut window, reaching down to the bedside table and stealing our iPad. Not something you wish to wake up to in the middle of the night in Cambodia." - MegsJ

"Sat on an eight-seater plane with an oil leak. The engine went off and we had to do an emergency landing. I won't forget that trip to the Isles of Scilly." - John_Loy

"Wild camping in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, when a thunderstorm lit the night sky. We shone our torches out and saw hyenas' eyes reflected all around us." - Conana

"The rumours are confirmed as we get locked inside our hotel. Protests, unrest and smoke. It has begun. "Stay calm." The revolution in Egypt." - kpayne018

"Being encircled by a large pack of stray dogs in Sucre, Bolivia, who could smell the food in my bag. It was a dark street and not a soul around. I was sweating profusely. Eventually the readily available bin bags with food were more appealing than me." - Moneypenny71

"My husband took our young daughters out in rubber dinghys towards rocks in Lake Malawi. Then the rocks moved - they were hippos." - pamcook

"Travelling Iran in 2014, when a motorcyclist mounted the pavement, grabbed me from behind and tried to get me onto his bike. A passing taxi driver dragged him off and then gave me a free ride back to my hotel." - Viajar_Solo

"Caiman spotting at night in Nicaragua. The guide leapt out of the boat, wrestled a caiman with their bare hands and dragged it into the boat. I was petrified." - HMJ

"Falling off the trekking path to Machu Picchu and rolling down to within three feet of precipitous drop into the Urubamba River." - LED

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