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What's the steps to travel?

I'm above 18 and I want to travel, but I can't do anything, i live in alexandria, I'm in a Muslim country and that's why as a girl didn't go out the house expect for school, and I didn't go to a restaurant or a Cafe or any trips before, and that made me tired all the time, and I want the steps how to get papers and stuff, and I want to travel a place that have many activities,

lately I had more freedom because my father start a new job that he come back late, so the past 2 years, I was hanging around and walk in the streets alone and take any train or bus I see in front of me, I even traveled to the capital cairo many times without any problems,

but I get so many harassing, firstly because I don't wear hijab, and there's the problem, most of men here is raised that you shouldn't let your wife or sisters or daughter out, and beat them and maybe kill them for that, not just like that, they think they have the right to beat or discipline any girl in the street if she wears something short or stuff, and things like if a man saw me in the street twice he will call me a stray girl and stuff, because i should cover my head and don't go to anywhere and don't wear makeup and don't put purfume and don't travel and even shaving hair face is haram, the raised that they should control women

But in the same time, they dream of an European girl, the clean lady who wears makeup and put perfume and wear short clothes, and men here say they love the time when they talking to an European lady, because she's clean and smell good and talk and laugh with him, and he can start a conversation about her travel trips and her jop and stuff, not like the stupid egyptian woman that doesn't do anything(i mean me), in the other side, if my father knew I put purfume out he would kill me, and ill be a whore if I go to work and travel alone, so what sho. uld I do to be a good person I don't get it.

And when I was in a bus a man told me welcome to Egypt and want my number because I'm beautiful and stuff, he thought I'm a foreigner because what I wear not how I look because there was literally a blonde girl sitting beside me, and when he knew that I'm not foreigner he beat me and call me how dare you wear like that and that disgusting and stuff, it was ok until he knew I'm egyptian, well people stops him, people is usually nice in my city than cairo, but that lead the way to other problem,

I heard many things about that I can get harassed or maybe get hurt by my people if they saw me traveling alone, it's like they travel to get the sexy ladies who have sexual past and traveling all the time, but if they saw me they might kill me because I'm having lack of morals to travel alone,

So what's a safe place to go that doesn't have many refugee, and have many physical activities like jumping or playing or running or anything need to move.

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What's the steps to travel?