Backpacking Essentials

Are you packed and ready to go? Do you have everything you’ll need to cover any event during the next few months backpacking around the world? Here are a few things you’d be foolish to forget.

When you’re still in the planning stages of your trip you should get yourself comprehensive backpacker-specific insurance. Health and safety in many countries you’ll be visiting is your responsibility so make sure you’re prepared for the worst.

You may only ever need plasters and painkillers, but you should still keep a first aid kit in your hand luggage, in case you are hit by something more damaging. You’re likely to suffer from ‘Delhi-belly’ whilst you’re away and not just in India either. Toilets and sanitation are likely to be unsanitary so keep re-hydration sachets and Imodium tablets to hand.

No doubt you’ll take a vast number of photos whilst you’re away; probably more than you can deal with and definitely more than you need. So instead of cropping and deleting on the move, periodically download them on to memory sticks and keep copies for yourself and send copies back home in the post.

You will avoid losing your image library and spending costly hours in Internet cafes painstakingly choosing which ones to save and which to discard. Save this job for the comfort of your bedroom back home.

Guard your passport with your life because it is the most valuable item you will take with you. However, be prepared and keep a photocopy in your hand luggage, stored separately from the original. It’s also worth keeping details of your flight connections and numbers to call if you’re bank cards are lost or stolen.

You may feel that taking a head torch is a little unnecessary and most definitely a ticket to loserville. However, this small, inexpensive piece of kit can come in very handy in a number of situations. From reading on a dark night bus to finding a safe route to the toilet on the campsite, you will be surprised just how useful a head torch can be.

Finally, carry your hand luggage in a rucksack not a handbag or shoulder bag. You will probably walking long distances, hiking through rainforest, and climbing mountains and a rucksack is far more practical than a handbag. Also, you can carry these over your shoulders on your front, which although looks a little geeky is the safest way to transport your passport and money.

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You should always take out travel insurance cover before going abroad. etravelinsurance.co.uk have a wide range of packages to suit travelers, such backpacker insurance or gap year travel insurance< if you are looking to go for a longer period of time.

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