overpacking tops the list of biggest travel mistakes. So Pack light and pack smart. Once you've decided to pack, keep it to a minimum. It's possible you think you need more baggage than you actually do; many of us have a tendency to overpack. Avoid taking more necessities or clothes than you need, especially if you will have access to laundering facilities at your destination or friends and relatives who will be happy to loan you additional clothes, items, and gadgets.
Benefits?
You don't have to pay porters and others to carry and store stuff for you. You are more able to take public transportation (like flight crews and airport personnel do from airports), rather than shuttles, and (often scam-prone) taxis. You can even walk. All of which also bring you into more intimate (hence rewarding) contact with the people and places that you have come to visit.
Benefits?
You don't have to pay porters and others to carry and store stuff for you. You are more able to take public transportation (like flight crews and airport personnel do from airports), rather than shuttles, and (often scam-prone) taxis. You can even walk. All of which also bring you into more intimate (hence rewarding) contact with the people and places that you have come to visit.
Less stuff means greater mobility, thus more options. With no checked or awkward-to-manage luggage to limit your travel alternatives, you can better cope with delayed transportation & missed connections, and exploit unexpected opportunities.
If there is a bottom line, it's that traveling light is simply a more stress-and-hassle-free way to go. You have more time, because packing takes little. You waste less energy hauling stuff. You know what you have, where everything is, and that it's sufficient. We've all seen those hapless folks at the airport, with too much baggage and anxious expressions, concerned that they have lost track of something, or left it behind.
If there is a bottom line, it's that traveling light is simply a more stress-and-hassle-free way to go. You have more time, because packing takes little. You waste less energy hauling stuff. You know what you have, where everything is, and that it's sufficient. We've all seen those hapless folks at the airport, with too much baggage and anxious expressions, concerned that they have lost track of something, or left it behind.