what's up guys it's alexander Travelbum and this is my girlfriend Lindsey
and today we're going to go over 10 essential items that you need to pack
when you travel.
so we've been traveling in south america for the last four months and so
we thought we would go over some awesome things that we've been traveling with
and if you know my channel if you know me you will know that i've been
traveling for about five years and i've done a lot of packing videos so
there are some essential things that i've come to know
and that lindsay uses she has some really good ideas and we just wanted to
go over them in this video alright guys so my number one here it's
called the iFlex what is this thing so
basically you can put this anywhere in your bag it's really light
you don't even know it's there and then you turn it into
kind of a tripod for your phone like this
so what's cool about this is you can bend it in all sorts of different
directions and different ways you can hang it
on a chair and watch netflix you can watch hulu
you can read a book if you have the book app on your phone and you read books on
there instead of holding it for hours you can
put it on this it really comes in handy when you're on
like a flight or a train so you know little tables on
flights you can just set it up there and watch a movie on the whole flight
because i could never figure out how to put my phone on there when i'm on a
flight and watch a movie i have to hold it the whole time
until i got this and we were on a 13-hour bus ride and that really came in
handy to watch netflix because otherwise alex or i would have had to hold the
phone for hours so instead we put the phone on
there and we could fall asleep while watching
and besides for books and movies and things like that i
even started using it as a pillow sometimes when i was in
buses so i just put it like this something like this against the window
and it really helped me out so this thing is just amazing this is
one of my favorite things these days so by the way all of these things are
linked down below this is kind of hard to find but if you go
to the amazon shop you can find this it's pretty cheap
okay and now for packing essential number two
a day bag that you actually like and are going to want to use every day
so while we've been traveling we see a lot of backpackers that will have
the typical hiking kind of day bag but the thing is if you're going to be on a
trip away from home for a long time and you're using this bag
every single day when you go you want to actually like it
and it doesn't need to be very big you just have to have it big enough so that
you can fit like a change of clothes water bottles some snacks and your phone
the one that i decided to bring along on this trip is a
lucky brand backpack it's a small leather bag it has two pockets and then
on the side for a water bottle and it's been great it goes with pretty
much anything i would wear so one of the reasons that this is a
good choice of bag or even like a guy version of this is because it goes under
the radar so that's one of the main reasons that i
like to get a regular backpack instead of the hiking
backpackers backpack unless you're going to be going into the
andes or like hiking steep mountains something like this is great especially
when you're inside cities you don't want to stand out you're
already going to stand out as a tourist but if you can go under the radar
and just have a regular backpack like this you're not gonna be targeted so
much usually the travel backpacks are like
bright orange bright colors there's probably good reasons for that
but there's a better reason for traveling with something like this
so yeah just find something you like that you can use every day
and i think you'll be a lot happier than if you're gonna do a
hiking backpack all right travel packing essential number three
is a sink stopper you might have seen me go over this before but really quick
so i use this all the time if you're gonna be staying in hostels
sometimes even hotels it's not always easy to find
a laundromat and so i'd say 90 of the time i do my laundry in the sink
so in the hostel sink or something while i'm traveling especially if you're a
backpacker so you just put the sink stopper in the
sink put all your clothes in there with some soap
and you've done your laundry for free and you don't have to go anywhere to do
it so get a sink stopper it's like a dollar
and i've linked it below packing essential number four
a dirty laundry bag so it starts off like
this really small and compressible and then you zip this
open
and it gets a lot bigger it's like the perfect size it's lightweight and you
can put all your dirty laundry in here to
separate it from your clean clothes so i really like this because if i
didn't have this i would be using like a throwaway plastic bag to try to separate
my clothing or i'd be having all my dirty clothes
packed in with my clean clothes which isn't ideal so definitely get one
of these not expensive at all super lightweight
to bring packing essential number five aka my
first and favorite packing essential actually
is travel underwear so i use exofficio travel underwear it's moisture wicking
it's odor resistant so you can bring just a few pair of
these like me i pretty much travel with three pairs of
underwear now because you can wear these every day for a week
they still don't smell and they're still clean supposedly
because of the weird technology that they use
and it's just the best you need some travel underwear
so you don't have to pack like 10 pairs and the brand that we both use
is x officio this is the female version no i haven't seen those yet
yeah so these are going to be a little bit more expensive than your average
pair of underwear but it's totally worth it because you only have to bring
two to three pairs and they wash and dry really easily really quickly definitely
a travel essential packing essential number six basically a
packing cube for your shoes so i bought this on
amazon this is a great way to separate your shoes from all your other items so
nothing else gets dirty and inside there are two compartments
so you can fit two pairs of shoes in here there's like a little mesh
compartment here and this is where i put my flip-flops
and then this is for bigger shoes like tennis shoes
or heels or something like that that's kind of cool
that's kind of cool that that it has two spaces because a lot of these
shoe bags shoe compartments they only have one
one compartment for one pair of shoes but of course you're gonna need
flip-flops when you're traveling so that is both yeah pretty cool so they
come in different colors and then make sure you get the one that has two
different compartments because that's super handy you could even put other
stuff in here too if you only had one pair of shoes
you could use this for something else to store
and then if you don't have a backpack yet and you're looking for a good travel
backpack my favorite and the one that i travel
with now is the nomadic and i'm only bringing it up right now
because it has a shoe compartment at the bottom so if you want one that
already separates your shoes and flip-flops from
the rest of the bag even dirty clothes could go in there too
oh yeah anything you want to not be with your clean stuff
yeah and you have that in the pneumatic separate from all your other clothes
nothing else gets dirty all right packing essential number seven
to go off of what lindsay was just doing packing cubes
so these packing cubes are from tript they're awesome because
they have a compression zipper so you can unzip that
and then when you're packing your packing cube you have a ton of space in
here so you unzip it which gives you a ton
more room there see so so it expands it looks like a actually a
thick uh packing cube but then once you pack it
you zip it back up and it compresses everything together and saves you a ton
of space in your bag so i really like tripped
because their logo is pretty cool and the colors are nice and the zippers
are like really high quality too you don't feel like they're gonna bust or
something when you're squeezing a bunch of stuff in to zip it
i've used a lot of crappy packing cubes in my day
and these ones are good so these are linked below
also if you guys have never used packing cubes in general
you need to get them they will change your life
so you can put maybe like t-shirts in one jeans and the other so if you need
to grab something real quick out of your bag you're not
rummaging through your entire bag and unfolding all your clothes you can just
literally grab one packing cube get the one item that
you need out of it and put it back so it's a lot cleaner more organized in
your backpacking suitcase exactly these are an essential for
backpackers packing essential number eight a quick
drying small towel look at how tiny this
is it is smaller practically than the palm of my hand
so the one that i use is by sea to summit
it's called the air light towel so this towel really comes in handy if you're
going to be staying at hostels they usually don't provide towels and you
need something that's going to dry quickly and that fits in your bag
let us show you why you need a packable towel
do you want to get that all right so option number one
a bath towel this is actually a small bath towel this isn't even like full
size look how big that is wait we'll put them next to each other
and then you have my microfiber travel towel
which i love and it's much smaller than this one but
then lindsey's is even much smaller than mine about
half the size of that so this one that lindsay has is amazing
i mean i think that mine is small enough but take a look i've never seen one
smaller than this now the material is very thin don't
expect it to be like your typical bath towel
paper but yeah it is it's like paper thin
but that's all you need when you travel it's just something thin
and lightweight so it does expand to be pretty
big see how thin that is yeah that is extremely thin yes and
if you don't like this color they do have it in a few different colors i
think there's like a gray and orange other colors as well so you
can take a look and if you want something just a little
bit thicker than that then there's one like mine
which is more like your typical microfiber travel towel which is still
see very very small so you have options they're all down below but that one is
insane i've never seen one like lindsay's here i couldn't believe
it when i ordered it how small it actually was so you will not be
disappointed all right my number nine this is an
external battery charger for your iphone for
anything that you need to charge so i suggest you get a decent one like
this i'd say you spend at least 30 dollars on one and that way
you'll be able to charge your phone or charge something else multiple times
so you can get a lot of these for like five dollars or ten dollars but they'll
charge your phone once but if you're a traveler you're gonna
want this when you're on trains or planes or something
with no outlets for a long time so this one that i've linked below it
usually charges my phone like six seven or eight times yeah
and i also have one but it's a bit smaller
and it's the bio light so both of us have
items linked below in the amazon shop there's a lindsay shop and
alex shop travel essential number 10 an rfid protected wallet the reason this is
important is while you're traveling there are some not so nice people out
there that will try to steal your information
your credit card information they have these scanners that can go through the
wallet but since this is rfid protected it's
supposed to prevent that from happening also inside
of here you can store your passport multiple
cards your id important papers copies of anything you want
so it's pretty big holds a lot and your information will be protected
this is pretty much a necessity these days lindsay knows from experience she
has had her information stolen before so now she uses one of these and again
if you haven't gotten your backpack yet so the pneumatic actually has this built
in so if you can see here there is an rfid pocket and you can
actually put a lock on there too so i put my passport
in here i put all my extra credit cards that kind of thing
and i lock it up so everything's super safe
inside my pneumatic there so get one of these if you haven't already this is
from see to summit but there's a lot of other good brands out there that you can
check out all right we both decided to throw in a
bonus item each that we both really like so my other essential that i would bring
with are headbands this would be applicable to
men or women if you're having a bad hair day or
greasy hair you don't have time to shower
anything like that you can just throw these on and they can
also add for a cool aesthetic too headband and or
bandanna a lot of people will wear yeah bandana
sweat helps to keep the sun off your head especially if you're a bald man
and you're gonna get a sunburn up there so
yeah and then my bonus is a good sunscreen or a facial sunscreen
so if you're coming from a western country or
let's be honest a country where people are predominantly white
then usually it's going to be cheaper in these countries
so when you're going to be going to south america southeast asia
india or something like that it's gonna be more expensive because tourists are
the ones who want it and so they'll jack up the price because taurus
are gonna be the only ones buying it all right guys so those are our top 10
essentials for packing we're actually probably going to be making a part 2
which i will link here after we make it because we have
a few more really good things that you might not know about
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