what's up guys it's alexander travelbum and this is lindsey and today we're
doing our top 10 travel essentials part two
so guys we've been traveling in south america for the last four months
and if you've been to this channel for a while you know that i've been traveling
for several years so i had some packing essentials to tell you guys
about and then lindsay had some good ideas as well
so this is a part two if you haven't seen part one then make sure to watch
that one after all right this is number one the grail
ultralight so this is a filtration water bottle it has a built-in
filter system and it can be used anywhere in the world
so instead of buying bottles of water everywhere
instead of getting sick by drinking the tap water out of the sinks and all of
that you can use this so the two major pros
of getting this water bottle you're going to be saving a lot of money won't
be having to buy bottled water and you're going to be helping out the
environment because you're not gonna be wasting
plastic bottles um and also anywhere you go
you can fill up with water you could be on a hike and see a little river you can
fill up there it's totally safe to drink the water
once you've pressed it through so this is a great way to be safe i've
gotten sick from water while traveling several times and i wish i had this
before so that that would not have happened
so what you do is you put the water in here and then this
is the filter system here and so you push it in like that
so you push it down like that and then it filters it out
supposedly you could put coca-cola in here and it'll come out with water
i don't know if that's true is that what they advertise uh somebody advertised
that i saw a youtube video i'm not sure if it's real
but you know it filters out 99.99999 percent of all the bad stuff so and then
you can buy replaceable filters so every few months
you can switch that out and they just came out with a new one so
this is the one that we both have had for the last couple years while
traveling but they finally came out with one
that's a little bit bigger and i've just put that in the amazon store
really excited to get that one grail oh and by the way all the stuff that we're
going to be talking about today it's all linked
down below in the amazon shop so it's called the alexander travel bum
amazon shop but you'll see that it's separated into four different categories
one is for lindsay's stuff so especially if you're a girl
uh lindsay has a lot of stuff that is specifically for females
and then of course my stuff like always is in mind
number two is a good toiletry bag specifically one that you can hang a lot
of times when you're in hostel bathrooms there's not going to
be a whole lot of space to just throw your stuff all around on the sink or
whatever so you're going to want something that can
hang this is also waterproof and there's three different compartments
it's not too big but honestly you don't want
anything huge when you're gonna be just traveling out of a backpack
it fits all of my essentials so definitely look into a good toiletry bag
let's show them when it's closed oh yeah when you close it
see you can yeah you just zip it closed and it looks
just like any other and then it just expands when you open it
so yeah it definitely helps to have a hanger when you're in the hostels
all right travel packing essential number three
headphones with a cord so you might be thinking that's kind of a stupid idea
but listen to this so a lot of people these days
you're gonna be traveling with bluetooth headphones more and more
people are buying those and even when you look on amazon you're going to be
seeing bluetooth headphones all the time but after a few years of
travel with those i suggest that you get one with the cord
there are several reasons for this so i've had experiences where i was in a
train in india and i was wearing bluetooth headphones
and my phone when i was listening to music on it came out of my pocket and it
was just kind of laying on the seat there
and i started walking away from it still listening to my music
and i got about 20 feet before the bluetooth technology didn't work anymore
and then it kind of went out and that's when i realized that i didn't have my
phone in my pocket it was back on the train
so if i had a cord that wouldn't have happened because the cord would keep
your phone with you and you would know if you were getting up and your phone
was still on your seat so that's one reason that i will only
travel with this now and i don't use the bluetooth anymore
another main reason is because you need to charge your bluetooth
headphones you don't have to charge these so a lot of times when i have
bluetooth headphones i wouldn't have been charged
all the way or if you're on a bus or a train for like
20 hours you're gonna run out of that battery and then you'll have nothing to
listen to these will always work so this i think
is an essential it seems like we're going back in time getting back to the
court but but believe me it works you should get
these i've even had times where i had my bluetooth headphones and it wouldn't
connect to my phone so like for a four hour plane ride
it for some reason just wouldn't connect and so i had nothing to listen to
that's true so that would be really bad if that happened on like a 13 hour bus
ride yeah a lot more hoops to go through for
the bluetooth and on the subject of not using bluetooth lindsay's
next item has bluetooth all right
travel essential number three a bluetooth speaker
so this is super tiny and it's waterproof and sand proof so you can
bring this to the beach it has a little hook right here you can
add a carabiner and hook that onto your backpack say
you're hiking and you want to listen to some music
not on your headphones you can bring this along it's super lightweight easy
to pack this one is the all-tech lancing one
there's other ones that are probably better but
i think this is literally like 30 dollars so
and it's great for when you're with people when you're with a group or when
you meet people like at hostels a lot of times people
won't have a bluetooth speaker so they're like playing from their phone
and you can barely hear it but imagine sitting around a bonfire
with a ton of people and you want to listen to some music
while you're you know cooking your marshmallows
well if you have the bluetooth speaker you're gonna bring the party to them
so there it is it's friend maker all right packing essential number five
this is my little sack of what love of joy
sack of sleep this is my little sleep sack
so this might seem pretty boring but it's something that you really will need
you need some ear plugs which are great especially if you're staying in hostels
they will keep you sleeping when people are coming in at two in the morning
also a lot of times people will turn on lights in your hostel in the middle of
the night and sometimes if you're in like a third
world country and you don't have any curtains or anything on the windows of
your hotel or your hostel there's gonna be
light beaming in at you while you sleep all the time
i've had that happen to me so many times and so a good sleep mask
is something that you really need and i don't mean any cheap one
i get one that has these little eye holes here
so that you can barely feel that it's on your face it has padding around the
sides and so you can wear this i started
wearing this basically every night even when i don't need it because it feels
good so you can buy those one dollar two
dollar cheap ones that are just like a strip of material that go across your
face but you can feel it pushing on your eyes and stuff
so i suggest this one which i have linked below i really love this one
been traveling with it for over a year and it's still doing great
does it come with the earplugs because like i got mine in a kit
like does yours come with it uh yeah so i think this one comes with earplugs
uh but they're down in my bed right now so i
don't have them packing essential number six a
compressible puff jacket this is a necessity
so if you're gonna bring one jacket on your trip this is what i would suggest
because you can wear it kind of as a sweatshirt if it's super cold you can
wear it even kind of as like a windbreaker
make sure you get a waterproof one and one that has a hood
this one i got for literally like 20 dollars super cheap
so i didn't get one with a hood but i would suggest investing the extra money
to get the hood waterproof this is an eddie bauer one
personally i think you need to have a hood is absolute
necessity because if you're getting basically a rain jacket something for
the cold for the rain you need a hood to keep away from the
rain so if you don't have that like you might be warm
but you're gonna get all wet so yeah and then you're gonna have to have another
jacket or another sweatshirt or something so a hood
so basically this is like an all-in-one sweatshirt jacket for your trip
so highly recommend don't go traveling without this
and don't be afraid to invest a little extra money in it because you'll
probably be wearing it a lot and it's the only jacket you'll really
have on your trip so learn from my mistake invest a little
extra money get a good one and one that you love another reason why
this is so great is it compresses and packs
down to essentially nothing
again if you get a little better quality one it's gonna get even smaller
help me so yeah once you really pack it down it gets down to
almost nothing as you just said but you're gonna need something to put it in
so if your jacket doesn't already come with a bag some of these jackets are
actually bagged jackets so you'll see that it
comes with one if it doesn't here's packing essential number seven
a dry bag so i have these linked below usually they come with like three or
four different size dry bags and they're not
only dry bags for like keeping your stuff from getting wet
it's for compressing stuff down so i have a thick jacket inside of here
and look it's almost nothing you have a little clip here and
then it opens up like this so when you put
something in there you just fold it down like this as much as you
can get the air out get the squeeze the air
out like this and then it becomes almost nothing and
then you can just just clip it like that and then you just
have a little ball that big fluffy jacket that you use for
all weather whatever you need becomes nearly nothing and dry bags are
also great for i believe even like electronics and
others oh yeah yeah they're great for
electronics to put your phone in if you're at the beach or if you're on
like a kayaking trip a rafting trip anything you want to not
get wet put in this bag and it'll protect it
yeah and if you don't have packing cubes then
you can use these for things like underwear i used to use this
for like my socks and underwear and all my socks and
underwear would compress down and keep into just
this little thing or a dirty laundry bag many uses for this definitely definitely
get one so yeah go down below and pick out a
pack of like three or four and you will be using these for a lot of things
they're amazing packing essential number eight a
swimsuit mine in particular is a reversible
swimsuit which i like a lot because then you only have to bring one
so i could do the floral pattern or i can reverse it and do the stripes
so basically two swimsuits in one and i know a lot of male
swim trunks have this too where you can reverse them
and so that's how i would definitely do it is get the reversible ones
it'll save you space uh i think guys generally only have one
swimsuit and they don't care about changing the different colors and all of
that but if you are a guy that likes to have
different ones then yeah a reversible one would be great
but for girls that'll definitely save you space cause most girls i've ever
met they have two or three or four different bathing suits for
different days at the beach so i have this one linked below
in the amazon shop as well you can take a look alright my number nine
even though we have a compressible jacket for the rain
and for everything else if you're gonna be in a tropical climate it might rain
but it also might be hot at the same time so you're not going to
be able to wear your big fluffy winter jacket if it's hot
so if you're in the tropical rains you're going to want just a rain jacket
a compressible very small one that you can fit anywhere in your bag
so these are usually very cheap and so i usually double up
with my jackets just because this is easy to keep
and of course because it's a rain jacket you're going to want a hood so
this is just very thin when you put it on if it's
a hot tropical rain in costa rica or something like that
you can wear this and it's just going to keep the wind
and the rain off of you but not the heat really small really thin it's awesome
last but not least packing essential number 10
some sort of organizational pouches so i got these off of amazon little
sloths on them but you can look on amazon you can get ones
that don't have any patterns more manly ones other colors patterns
but i use these for makeup but you could literally use them for anything
it's just a good way to separate and organize you can use them for socks
underwear electronics chargers batteries and they're super
inexpensive and they're almost kind of like mini
packing cubes for smaller items all right so that's it oh wait there's
more we have a bonus each so of course you can buy these
anywhere you can buy them once you get to your destination but these
are some kind of wet wipes so you can use the wet wipes that are
a replacement for toilet paper which you will need in a lot of countries
surprisingly around the world you'll need them sometimes when you
don't have toilet paper when they don't have toilet paper
in their bathrooms and also you can use it just to
basically wash your hands if you've got them dirty while eating or something
eating a bunch of fruit getting them sticky so i always have these with me
for a variety of reasons and my bonus item
is a probiotic so while you're traveling you're going to be eating a lot of foods
you might not be used to your daily routine is going to look
different how much water you consume all these different variables
so probiotic is really good for your healthy gut bacteria
so i got the ones that do not require refrigeration
i got these on amazon make sure you do that because a lot of probiotics they
keep in the fridge and they'll go bad yeah
right after you these are not cheap to get either but they are worth it you can
take like one a day it helps promote digestive health
supports immune system balances cholesterol levels and enhances
a nutrient absorption yeah so your your gut bacteria can kind
of become compromised when you're in a new country
usually taurus you don't have your immune system built up for
different kinds of environments and their water and food and things like
that so these will help you not to get sick
or to feel better when your gut bacteria is getting all
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