Packing for a big trip requires a lot of thinking - you need to keep your possessions to a minimum but you don't want to find yourself lacking in essentials either. Earlier this year, I went travelling for just under 5 months in Central and South America, from Mexico to Colombia, and naturally, I wanted to make things as easy as possible for myself when it came to the contents of my backpack.
Without having any previous experience of going away for such a long stint, I found it pretty hard to know what I was going to need and what I wasn’t. One concern I had was that I would lose or break my smartphone, or have it stolen, so instead of taking an expensive flagship with me, I decided to take one of the best cheap phones.
