Goa, March 5 -- Just when tourism was picking up for the season in the country, a horrific incident has marred the image of India on an international level. A 35-year-old Spanish tourist was allegedly gang-raped, and her husband brutally assaulted by seven youths in Dumka district in Jharkhand. Their video message retelling the ordeal on Instagram went viral and many other travelers shared their experience too. The couple was on two bikes on a world trip and were going from West Bengal to Nepal via Dumka, where they had put up their tents for a night stay.

Flexcia D'Souza from North Goa has been an avid traveler and her travels have been well documented on social media. She has been solo travelling for over a decade and more recently, sh...