The "Pack This" Top 20 Ultimate Travel Essentials List |

The "Pack This" Top 20 Ultimate Travel Essentials List |

1.  Cell Phone:

Your mobile phone, while may not be used while you are scampering down the side of a snow-capped mountain, will be useful in populated areas, and before and after your vacation.  The cameras on cellular phones such as iPhones surpass many consumer cameras for sale known as "point and shoot" cameras.  iPhones provide the traveler a compact camera that instant takes tons of images with pushes of your finger.  

2.  Passport:

An obvious essential to international travel, the passport allows for more than just intracontinental excursions, but allows travelers the option to rent vehicles, and provides a universal form of identification, and is a collector's piece to see how many stamps you can get on your passport.  How many do you have?   

3.  Video Camera:

If your cell phone's memory is full, you may need a video camcorder to capture your backpacking moments.  Video cameras can be feasible options, especially, when you aren't able to dedicate valuable cell phone battery capacity to video capture.

4.  Keys:

You'll need your keys before and after your vacation.  Unless you have transportation from someone who lives in the same residence as you, you will most likely need your keys as soon as you arrive home.  You better just bring them.

5.  A Map:

Don't count on your cell phone's GPS app to guide you.  A hand printed map can be handed to a local for them to guide you in the correct direction.  That may not be as easy with a small electronic screen.  Rail or metro maps are particularly helpful and can be found as soon as you enter a metro station, or near the train cabin door.

6.  Earbud Headphones:

They're small, sleek, on-fleek, and necessary on noisy flights.  Keep jammin' and keep your good vacation vibes going with your favorite song on that smartphone that you previously packed above.

7.  Mobile Phone Charger:

You're going to need this.  Everyone does nowadays.  This will come in handy just about everywhere - your hostel, the airplane, the airport, and of course, on they way home on that pesky metro train.