Whats on my Daypack and Fitting everything In

Since I am done packing my things on my check in backpack, its time to organize the things that I will have on my carry on bag/ daypack.

Prior to this trip, I was looking for a good camera bag that would fit two of my lenses, but will still have room for my tablet. Being the oldest in the family and with bills to pay, I would never shell out Php2,000 for a bag (though many of camera enthusiasts would say that its worth it) for a camera bag. After months and months of looking and getting tired of my "free" camera bag from my boyfriend, which I fondly call the "Cory bag", it being yellow, I finally found the camera bag I was looking for.

My camera bag: Charmelle in Blue Green by Izzoshop

With flash

Without flash (to possibly capture real color)

Compartments

Luckily, with my mother packing skills, I am able to fit in my Tabs - my tablet and Dee - my Nikon D5100 camera with 2 kitlens, my passport and travel documents in it. Since I promise myself that I will be travelling lightly for this trip, my camera bag will also serve as my daypack, since I will be carrying Niks during the trip.

What's in my daypack (L-R): Dee with her kitlens, passport and Tabs. 

Its my third night of packing and repacking my things and yet it felt that it would never end. I still have few more things to add on my backpack, at least toiletries na lang and I am good to go. Lets see tomorrow!



Thinking about what I still need,

Deng

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Since our Indochina Trip is finally on the move, I think it is necessary for me to check out the things that I will need for the travel. I was initially thinking that a luggage would do well for me, but since the girls I am with are taking their own and thus, I need to help them out on this, I need something that I could easily work with, more convenient and comfortable for me. So I decided to look for a travel backpack. 

Now, I am on the search for the backpack that I will be using for the Indochina trip, and hopefully for future backpacking trips. Lalaki naman ako dati, kaya okay lang sa akin ang backpack. While online, I stumbled upon a site which gives great tips on how to choose your travel backpack. That's when I learned about a daypack and a travelpack.

Basically, a daypack is the smaller version of a backpack, which is on my perception, my hand

y dandy backpack (for school or for weekend travels). Think about multi-purpose for my backpack. Moving on, a travel backpack is somewhat similar to the backpacks mountaineers use, that elongated pack with spaces for tent and water bottle. On the site, it discussed what packs are suitable for women and men and what brands are the best for it.

Travel packs comes in various sizes, not by inches, but by volume. According to the site, a 30-45 pack is suitable for a 5'3'' frame like mine.

Deuter and North Face, both international brands, manufactures these packs. With that in mind and thinking of at least 30L of these backpacks, I came across these bags:

(from top Left, clockwise: Deuter ACT Trail 20, Deuter ACT Zero, Deuter Fox 40, Deuter Spectro AC 28, Deuter Futura Vario and Deuter Futura 32)

(from l-r: North Face Women's Terra 40, Terra 45 and Terra 55)

So now, I need to look for these bags, try them on and canvass how much I will be paying for it. Personally, I am setting the budget for my bag, na walang lalampas ng 6,000.

Happy bag hunting to me! 


For more backpacking tips, you may want to visit: http://travelindependent.info/whattopack.htm