what's up guys it's alexander travelbum and today we're packing for brazil
so i just got back from my first trip to brazil and i spent three months there and so there were
things that i packed that i should have packed and i did it right and then there are things that i
seem to be missing and some things are harder to find once you're in brazil so you have to
do it ahead of time and some things you can get in brazil that you probably shouldn't spend the money
on back home and you should actually get in brazil because it's better cheaper cooler more authentic
okay first things first you're gonna need something to contain your stuff
so my new bag is monos mono's luggage this is the terracotta one i think this color is awesome the
only color i really like is red but i like when it's not saturated it's like really dark red so
this is pretty cool they have a bunch of really cool luggage i love their colors they have this
little locking device here and this is carry-on size so you can take it on the airplane with you
so we're gonna pack this up okay a few of the smaller things if you have a light complexion or
even if you don't and you wear sunscreen sometimes the sun is very strong in brazil and you're gonna
want some sunscreen i have like a facial one and then like the rest of my body i usually get like
an organic you know one that's good for your skin because you gotta watch what's happening
to your skin especially in the heat and the sun in a place like brazil it is just brutal really thin
workout shorts these are pretty cool they're just very thin they have a zipper pocket in the back
so if you want to work out the thing is a lot of brazilians are pretty in shape i think from what i
remember yeah pretty in shape so you might want to stay in shape while you're traveling there as well
there are a lot of places in the big cities and even some of the smaller ones where you can run
and then get some running shoes some shoes that you can squish together
it's kind of hard to find you might have to go to the store and look at squishable running
shoes kind of squish them make sure that the back squishes down so that these will take a ton of
room in your bag or get some barefoot running shoes that's actually what i brought to brazil
barefoot running shoes take up like no space because they have barely any support they just
keep you from getting like glass in your foot and you know it's a different way of running
and on the staying in shape front you can also get resistance bands like these these are pretty cheap
i have them linked below you can do little workouts in your hotel room or your airbnb
while you're in brazil if you don't want to go to the gym but you want to stay in shape
they're perfect i've just started traveling with these it's hard to stay in shape while
you travel usually can't go exercise at a gym so something like this that takes virtually no
space at all and you can get your workout in easily while you're home it's great i think when
you're traveling these days you should definitely document your experiences whether it's for youtube
or not and it's just for yourself just for your family and friends especially for a beautiful
beautiful place like brazil you're gonna want some kind of action cam like this that goes underwater
so you can bring it to the beach you can go scuba diving you can go snorkeling and you can capture
everything so i have the dji osmo pocket i've linked it below but you can also get
like a gopro this is very very similar to gopro but it is cheaper but it does just as well i think
i love this thing and this is what i am going to start shooting all my vlogs in
after this video so check out my other channel the travel bum if you're into travel vlogs
and you'll see how this is holding up sunglasses you're definitely going to need them because
as i said the sun is very strong in brazil of course you can find them in brazil but depending
on your style it might be easy or hard to find a pair that you like a day bag this is a cool day
bag that i like by douche bags and this is the one that i'm traveling with these these days it's cool
because it zips from the side it's not as easy to take stuff you know pickpocketers and stuff
and you have this whole space in here it's kind of designed for an adventurer a climber i love
this bag you're gonna need a day bag so that you have something to put your extra stuff in put your
water bottle in that kind of stuff while you're walking around because you're not gonna take
this bag with you while you're walking around every day this is the iflex it's a little bendy
thing that you can put on the back of a plane seat the back of a a bus on your lap you can put it
on your bed even and you can bend it different ways depending uh where you want to put it
you bend it up and you put your phone on there and then you can watch netflix wherever you are
even on the airplane i usually put this on the tray table you know on a plane so if you travel
a lot this thing is awesome and then this this is a battery charger you can use this for your phone
use this for your laptop if you have like a new macbook like me then you don't have to plug it
into the wall you can plug it into this and continue editing or well editing like me you
can continue browsing the internet while you're on the beach or writing or something like that
you can charge up your phone with this while you're on the beach this is awesome this one
specifically is very good it's very powerful and so you can get a lot of power banks out there
but i really suggest this one which i linked below because i love this one and this is the
one that i will keep traveling with you're going to need a rain jacket because it does rain a lot
in brazil in a lot of places it was raining pretty much every day but get something really thin
compressible like a jacket that fits in a little bag sometimes it comes with a bag if
it's one of these small compressible ones like this so this is just for rain it's not for the
cold or anything it is just to keep from getting wet the grail water bottle i talk about this all
the time but this is a water filtration bottle if you have this with you you can drink the tap water
sometimes you're not supposed to drink the tap water depending where you are in brazil but you
can put in this and it filters it and it is safe to drink so save some plastic save some money
just get this and bring this with you and you can always drink out of it you can stop buying plastic
water bottles every single day save yourself money it is worth the investment ah really quick
earplugs and eye masks so brazilians are known to party to play loud music it is a very fun culture
very awesome people i really like brazilians but it can be loud especially if you're in the main
cities and you're near a beach they will stay up all night and party and so you might need this
to block out the light you know the strobe lights coming in through your window and you might need
these to block out obviously some of the music in order to sleep if you're not out there with them
and you can't really do that every day at least i can't these are packing cubes packing cubes are
a necessity i think these days for travel and for luggage like this especially packing cubes
basically keep everything right there so i have all my clothes just in these they're not going
to be falling all over my bag or anything like that so this is great start with a packing cube
so these are linked below in the description on amazon and pretty much everything i have here
is in the description uh at amazon or somewhere else so you can get any of these things that i
travel with all the time so the first thing i want to say is brazil is colorful people like
to wear color they like to be flashy they like to party and drink and be on the beach and so
that's actually why i'm wearing this shirt right now there are a ton of colors on it people wear
the kind of hawaiian shirt but like a new age hawaiian shirt they sell them all over brazil and
so you can get them while you're there but also if you have some you might as well bring them so
i have this one the pattern is kind of crazy and i thought it was perfect for brazil so i would bring
two or three shirts like this and if you don't have any just buy some when you get there
the next thing is brazil is hot of course it's a huge country so there are parts of it
that aren't hot all the time so you're not only going to bring hot weather clothes but mostly hot
weather clothes but the first thing i want to talk about is this this is my unbound merino sweatshirt
it's basically a travel hoodie it is awesome it fits amazing you can wear it all the time and
it's anti-microbial it i don't know the science behind it but the technology in here the material
and makes it so that it doesn't stink so you can wear it i wear it on my runs so i run with this
if it's cold and i sweat a little bit next day it smells perfectly good it smells just like when i
first got it probably a hundred wares ago it is a little on the expensive side but the point of
this is that you only need one this will be good for a long time it's it's versatile it's very thin
and so you can pack it really well you can take it on the plane even if you're not going anywhere in
brazil that will be cold sometimes you'll be cold on a bus or a plane or something like that so you
need to have something warm with you wherever you go because that can happen and you don't want to
be freezing and have no cold weather clothing with you so just bring one one thing just this
so you don't really have to see all my clothing but i will bring t-shirts i probably bring
six seven or eight t-shirts because i wear t-shirts every day most of them
are just plain white i just wear plain white t-shirts or plain black t-shirts maybe gray
all the time it's just you can wear it every day and you feel fine i was never a big tank top guy
but in brazil when you're going to the beaches and all that you might want to wear a tank top a lot
of people do and i just got a really thin kind of cut tank top like this it's like a tri blend
and it doesn't take up much room bathing suit if you're a girl you'll probably need to pack
like three or four bathing suits because you'll be using them all the time changing all the time
don't want to wear the same thing as a guy you don't really need that but i'd say bring bring
at least one maybe two i actually found these in brazil i thought they were really cool you can't
really find ones like this everywhere they seemed like handmade like they aren't produced all over
brazil i just found them in the small town i got a couple in brazil so i would travel back to brazil
with probably two bathing suits if you have the room why not three if you have some cool ones
or go there with one and then buy a few shorts of course depending on your style everybody's
style is different i like something just really basic like this but a lot of people will like
something flashier but i like something kind of light color lightweight so it's good for the sun
and then you can even wear your bathing suit as shorts and save some packing space and then
pants maybe bring a couple pairs of pants depends who you are you might not ever wear pants so you
might not need them but i would bring at least one you might want to go out to a dinner some
night maybe it will get cold depending where you go in brazil so bring at least one so that's about
it like i said earlier i spent around three months traveling around brazil and i made
travel videos there almost every day so there are a ton of them so if you're into travel vlogs
go to the the travel bum on youtube it is my other channel hopefully i can have it somewhere up here
watch those videos if you want to get any information about brazil if you want to see
some of the awesome amazing places that i saw because it's not that easy to get information
on brazil because not a ton of people travel there and actually travel out of the big cities
like we did so i'll see you there and then i will see you in the next video on this channel
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