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How to Pack for a Multi-Destination Trip

How to Pack for a Multi-Destination Trip

Packing for a holiday when you know you'll be staying in the same accommodation for the whole trip is easy-peasy. You can unpack, hide your suitcase under the bed and not see it again until you're frantically re-packing an hour before your airport transfer arrives to take you home. With a multi-destination trip, there's no such luxury. Organisation is absolutely key, and the type of luggage you carry around with you will make or break your sanity.

Here's some questions to ask yourself when you're packing for a multi-destination trip:

Six Tips For Eating Well When Backpacking

Travel blogger with rucksack

Travelling for a long period of time is exhausting. Lugging a rucksack from place to place, on every mode of transport you can imagine and then eventually hitching up at a hostel where there's zero food to chow down on. It's so easy to end up snacking on convenience food and getting takeaways, but really, if you're on a multi-month, multi-country trip, that is NOT the way to be saving money. Eating well on the road is easy, cheap and healthy with just a bit of preparation. Here's how I managed it on my trip from Malaysia to New Zealand:
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