Backpacking Essentials - Your Must-Have's And Must-Do's Before Journeying

By Chase Crawford


Backpacking in Japan is what most travel lovers dream of and consider as the most rewarding of all travel experiences. Consequently, knowledge of the backpacking essentials has become important. Preparing the things you need to bring for your journey and planning the details of your tour can help you avoid the setbacks that your backpack travel may encounter.

The most common dangers you as traveler might face are losing your belongings and losing track of your whereabouts. Such possibilities can be eliminated once you have followed the necessary tips to be out of harm during your expedition.

Plot Your Tours

This is the most important and yet the most ignored advice of all. Once you have decided which country to visit, check right away any possibility for you to visit its neighboring countries. Secure yourself maps and other sources of information about your destination. These are backpacking essentials that will help you study any physical and geographical roadblocks that you might encounter. Getting an overview of the things to see in Japan would help you enjoy your trip more as you can plot ahead of time the activities you can do in these destinations. This saves you from wasting time spent on thinking on the spot of about that.

Plan What To Bring

First and foremost, secure the ideal gear you will carry along in the entirety of your trip. Be sure that its size (plus the weight it would gain after you have filled it with your stuff) is something you can handle all by yourself.

Now let us go to your backpacking list of things you are to fill your gear with. Firstly, include in your gear a first aid kit. This shall have important stuff like alcohol, bandages, insect repellants, sunscreen and wound ointments. Secondly, keep a supply of plastic for your dirty clothes and shoes and zip locks for your food. These can keep your things from being a total mess. Thirdly, take in it a container filled with clean water. This would come in handy especially to backpackers with very sensitive stomach.

In addition to your gear, wear along a belt bag. You can place your money and important documents here for safe and easy access. Other documents which you might in applying for jobs for foreigners in Japan may also be kept here.

Let Your Loved Ones Know

Once you are all set, document all the places that you are going to visit, the exact activities you have planned to do there, and the specific number of days or weeks you delegated for each place. Along with the dates of your departure and arrival and your contact numbers, have these printed in a clean paper. Give your family and friends a copy. In case you will be encountering any trouble while backpacking, they would know exactly where and how to track you and communicate with you.

Be Watchful

While this appears more of an advice than a preparation, it is still included in the backpacking essentials. Understand that being equipped with the right tools would be worthless if you cannot keep an eye on them and of yourself. Avoid being bait to wicked opportunists




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