The advice of an expert to assemble a suitcase for vacations

Whether you’re going to the beach, the mountains or an unknown city, luggage is one of the most important things when planning your trip. Even more so if the tickets you buy allow you to carry only one suitcase, or if you are going to need to travel light.

Lina (@linaestadeviaje) is a traveler and digital nomad who shares tips on packing your luggage for every climate and occasion on her blog and on social media. With her experience traveling through cities in Europe and America, the blogger has created a community of fans of traveling the world with a single suitcase.

The influencer also has travel guides with places you can’t miss in each city, cheap and reliable accommodation, and applications that help you locate and transport yourself.

Essential items to pack

To help her followers gear up for travel, the influencer created a template that they can download, print, and fill out as they pack. Travelers will also be able to write down their destination, take into account the dates of their journey and the climate of the place they are going to.

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What can not be missing in your hand luggage

According to Lina, there are essential items that cannot be missing from your carry-on suitcase, the one that will go with you everywhere. In her blog, the traveler lists the following:

1. Travel documents: Identity documents, passports, vaccination certificates, tour and lodging reservations, boarding passes and everything you may need during the trip.
2. Empty water bottle: This bottle will help you to pass it through the security filters and fill it in the drinkers that are almost always there afterwards.
3. Medicines: It is useful to pack pills for any ailment, whether they are prescribed or over the counter. It is also very convenient to carry a first aid kit with bandages, cures or other basic elements.
4. Snacks: Sometimes the waits at the airport or even on the plane can be long and you will get hungry. In addition to the fact that the food they sell is much more expensive than in a regular store.
5. Phone charger: It is necessary in order not to use up the cell phone battery during the flight and to be able to communicate once you arrive at your destination.
6. Ballpoint: It is essential in hand luggage and very important to fill out the paperwork required in immigration from some countries.
7. Clean kit: Especially useful for long or night journeys. Lina recommends keeping a toothbrush and toothpaste, deodorant, and any other hygiene items you need on hand.
8. Extra underwear: It doesn’t take up much space and can save you from awkward moments if you lose your cargo bag or if you have to deviate from your route.

(YO)