#travelnuggets Bring multiple bank cards with you. If somehow your bank card details get stolen or something, you still will have other cards with you. We did not have issues using a mastercard everywhere. But it does not hurt to have a visa with you as well. Maybe once an atm only accepted that, but we happened to use another one anyway. Also in one or two online booking, there were a discount for maestro cards. #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

#travelnuggets If you travel to South America, from a different continent, the odds are high that your stomach is not used to local bacterias in food, water, air, etc. This can easily mean, that you will easily get stomach issues. Diarrhea. A good way to cure it: - BRAT diet - Diarrhea medicin - Probiotics Tip: If you can find enterogermina, it is quite a good probiotics. Usually you can easily get it. And even hospitals suggest it. #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

#travelnuggets Have emergency USD in cash with you for South America. You never know. Maybe you get to a place where is no ATM, or the withdraw fee is huge. #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

#asknostr Good afternoon! We are making an app to help travellers plan their trip. Short idea: It will be an itinary planning tool, in which you can type a destination, and it will suggest you programs to do, sights to visit. After you select what you are interested in, it will make you a multi-day itinary with a detailed plan. We have many other ideas, that would expand around this planning the bus or plane tickets between selected cities, etc. We are travellers ourselves, and spent countless hours planning city and place visits, transportation booking, etc. We want to make a tool for ourselves and anyone else interested, that helps us plan our travel. If you are interested in using such a tool, or would be open to shape the first version of such service, write us please. Comment, DM, zap, note, whatever it is. We have a strong opinion how such tools would help us. But other opinions could shape this into an even better service. #travel #travelling #backpacking #app #service

#travelnuggets Put the raincover on your backpack before travelling on a bus. Bus trunks are usually really dirty, and your backpack will look like in a second as you got it from the rubbish. If you put on the rain cover, it will get dirty, not the backpack. But it is easier to clean than the backpack. #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

#travelnuggets Use plastic foil to wrap your backpack before travelling on a plane. - It protects the material - You see if someone opened it #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

#travelnuggets 2 locks and 2 aluminium cables to securely lock your things to something is really helpful. You can use it: - Overnight bus to secure your handbags - Dormitory to secure your bags - Maybe on the beach to secure your bags - Anywhere to lock your bags So they are really useful. #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

I think for us, the most tiring and time consuming part of longer term travelling is: - Planning the number of days in a city - Planning which city to visit - Planning the transport between the cities Why? - We are bound to a return time - We want to be as cheap as possible - We want to visit everything that is possible So if you are planning to do what we are doing, expect to spend considerable amount of time on organization during your trip. We also plan to make an app though, to ease this work, because damn, this is hard. #grownostr #travel #planning #plan

#travelnuggets If you care about minimizing your unnecessary costs. Sometimes bus tickets are cheaper buying on the bus station, sometimes online on busbud. So better check both. #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

#travelnuggets A sleeping mask is a must. It can really make a difference in buses, or hotels, where you have more light. Or even in a dormitory, where people arriving late will probably turn on and off the lights. Or on plane... #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

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#travelnuggets Consider ATM fees! In a few countries, you can have free withdrawals. In the others, you shall prefer ATMs that have high or no withdrawal limit. So you can make the withdrawal fee a 1% fee or less. Also pay attention to put your card in ATMs that support it. Otherwise you may lose it. #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

#travelnuggets A water filter goes a long way! Takes away the bad taste, you can have water even if you dont buy packaged water. #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

#travelnuggets This is actually quite weird. A small spanish goes a long way in many Latin American country. And I mean really not too much. Even in Brazil, where they speak portugues. Sometimes the middle ground is spanish, as they dont speak english. (But fortunately in many places they do...) So start that duolingo or babel before you go. The more basic stuff you understand, the better off you will get. Of course going on a spanish tour would still be hard, but it will help a lot. Actually we learned in Brazil, that we know a lot of spanish compared to nothing in portugues, and this is really, really feelable. #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

#travelnuggets It is a captain obvious, but always ask for prices in multiple agencies if you want to book a tour. Competition always help the consumer! #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

#travelnuggets Sleeping bag is useful, but takes a lot of space, and if you bring enough warm clothes, it shall be fine without it. Probably a sleeping liner is better, so you can select cheaper hostels, and you don't have to sleep in the possibly dirty bed. Also sleeping liners are smaller, take up less space. #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

#travelnuggets Always ask if there is a cash discount. You can save a lot many times. #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

#travelnuggets If you go to Argentina cash up dollars before. You are better off exchanging dollars to argentinien pesos, then withdrawing money from an atm. Western Union could also work. #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

#travelnuggets Don't bring a mosquito net! It is quite big, and where you need it, you most probably will have it. #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil

#travelnuggets Save your photos in a cloud or on an external device if you travel longer. You can have your own cloud, to have more privacy. Using a cloud has the advantage of having your phone or external devices stolen, does not mean your photos are gone. Also easier to share with your friends or family. #travel #traveltips #travelling #backpacking #backpacker #southamerica #sa #chile #argentina #peru #bolivia #ecuador #colombia #brazil