A few tips to make your trip easy

"Whoever wants to travel happily must travel light"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Travel makes it a pleasant lightness. Easy Bag and easy route. Surely everyone has a nightmare journey in life, when you have a sore arm from the baggage weight, and yet you are a long time waiting for him at the airport. Or remember the journey that you have outlined very ambitious program, tried to reach the impossible, but in the end never had time. Such visits do not bring pleasure, stress, and on arrival home just right to take another vacation.

Today we offer you a few tips that were sent by readers Zenhabits blog. All recommendations are intended to maximally facilitate the journey.

In fact, we take with too many things. In fact in your backpack should be just that:

Documents: passport, credit cards, etc.
Deodorant
2 pairs of shorts
2 t-shirts
2 pairs of underwear
swimsuit (melting)
1 book
notebook and pen
camera, charger

If you'll need something else, you can buy it on the spot.

Some Tips From these continue to contradict each other, because there are no universal rules for all. Choose ones are those that are closest to you.

What you need to take with you

1. Take as little as possible of things. Going to constantly ask yourself: "Do I really need this thing or I just want to take it with you? And if I buy it I need, I can not at the point where I'm going? "It turns out that for a good trip, you need quite a bit of things.

2. Travel with a light backpack. If you will be a lot of pedestrian crossings, such a bag is particularly useful, since it leaves your hands free.

3. Take clothes that can be combined with each other.

4. Take only what you can fit in your hand luggage.

5. During the fees put in one pile everything that you would want to take with you, and then gradually put off the things that you do not need.

6. Do not bring your laptop, tablet, and smartphone, it is desirable to replace a simple phone. For gadzheto- and internetzavisimyh people traveling without devices - is a great way to "reset" and relaxation.

7. Most toiletries can be purchased on the spot.

8. If you know that in the place of travel, you can buy any thing cheaper than at home, then do not take it with you, and even more so do not buy before the trip.

9. Take only one book. If you still finish reading it to the end, then, can, share with someone, or buy another.

10. In Asia, the best friend of the traveler - a sarong. Sarong can be used as a towel as a sheet as a skirt, like a bag or a scarf. This is especially useful if your travel budget is limited and you are staying in hostels, which often do not give guests towels and even bed sheets. Best quality sarong - it dries very quickly even at high humidity. While towel will dry you all day and you will not be able to pack it in your bag, because other things get wet.

11. Bought souvenirs you can immediately send home. You will not have superfluous things, and will not need to declare them at customs.

12. Take old clothes and underwear. Toward the end of the journey, it can be thrown away, leaving more space for souvenirs. Or buy a new trip.

13. If you need a guide, then otkserokopiruyte it. The pages that you are no longer needed, dispose of.

14. Make photocopies of your passport, credit cards and other valuable documents. On the photocopy card write telephone numbers of customer support services. Leave these papers with a trusted person. If you suddenly stolen bag and purse, and you will be able to make only one phone call, you call this man, and he will be able to block your card. You can scan all the documents that later you can send them to you via e-mail.

15. Bring good things from synthetic fabric. For example, you can take only two pairs of socks and one of them in the evening to wash in the sink. Good synthetics dry quickly, but cotton can dry a few days in a high humidity environment.

16. Quickly dry a thing is possible, if pre-wrap it in a towel and squeeze.

17. Take a little foreign currency to cover small unexpected expenses. The rest will exchange on arrival. There is usually more favorable exchange rate.

Planning trips and sightseeing

In addition, you need to properly pack, you also need to consider what you will do when you reach your destination.

1. Not oversaturated travel plans. Suppose that you are left with time to enjoy the atmosphere of each place you visit. Leave room for chance, and if any of your plans did not succeed, you do not need to do from this tragedy and to make a superhuman effort to still realize them.

2. Come to the airport earlier than necessary. Suppose you have a few extra hours to spare. Do not start your journey in the bustle and haste, it's too much time you can spend on it to sit in the airport restaurant with a cup of coffee.

3. Prepare for the passage of the metal frame. Wear shoes that are easy to remove, do not wear a belt with a metal buckle, twist and remove the pre sweater, packed in separate packages all the electronics and the liquid and put in the bag from the top, so as not to look after them hectic.

4. During the trip, do not forget to leave enough time for sleep.

5. Smile more and communicate with the locals.

6. Eat, eat, eat! And enjoy the taste!

7. Do not try to visit all the sights. Choose a couple of the most necessary, and the rest - as it will!

8. Walk in the evening and look at the local culture.

9. Be sure to go for a massage.

10. Do not keep your money in one place. Part put into the pocket of the bag (also in different pockets), some can be hidden, for example, to boot. When you get them, go to a secluded place. Part of the cash leave the hotel, but, of course, hide (well, if there is a safety deposit box can be rented).

11. Get up early. In hot climates, it will help you avoid the heat of the day. In any case, you will have time to visit the attractions, yet there are not crowds of tourists came running. You can leisurely and fun to explore everything. Always start your day with the fact that you wanted to see in the first place, then the day can go wrong, like you have in mind.

12. Do not get hung up on the examination of architectural monuments and museums. Much more interesting and informative - Meet new people.

13. Avoid accumulation of tourist destinations, well, if this is not the place that you really wanted to see. Really feel the spirit of the country can, if wander through the non-touristic places to eat that the locals love. Well if you have friends who have been living in this country, they will show you a lot of interesting things and talk about local customs.