Packing List for South America Trip 4

The Packing List takes such a long time to finalize, and in the end hopefully there’s not much on it. Here is our exact packing list for a 4 month trip to South America. These lists include what we’re wearing, so that saves you a little space in your backpack!

Packing List For a 4 Month Trip to South America – for Alyssa

Shirts:

• 7 short sleeve
• 1 long sleeve
• 1 lace crop-top to dress up casual clothes

Jackets:

• Marmot Rain-Resistant Jacket (medium thick) with hood
• Thin Roxy sweater – (Great for layering: longsleeve shirt, thin sweater, and jacket)

Skirts/Pants:

• 2 Jean Skirts
• 1 Long Black Skirt
• 1 Knee-Length Comfortable Skirt
• 1 Pants/Shorts Zip-Off Combo

Undies/socks:

• 8 Pairs underwear
• 1 Pair leggings
• 2 Pair socks
• 1 Wool pair socks

Shoes:

• 1 Waterproof Hiking Boots by Columbia
• 1 Thin flip flops, Reef
• 1 Thin closed toed dress shoe, lightweight

Bathroom Bag:

• Small Folding Hairbrush With Mirror
• Toothbrush & paste
• Rubberbands and large bobby pins
• 2-in-1 shampoo (3 oz bottle)
• Light days pads
• Retainers
• Base make-up coverup
• Lotion
• Band-aids
• Chewable Acidophilus (for keeping good stomach bacteria)
• Tylenol

Backpack & Misc:

• Osprey Stratos 36 L Backpack
• Backpack Raincover
• Hat
• SunCloud Polarized Sunglasses
• Eagle Creek Waist Money Belt

Packing List For a 4 Month Trip to South America – for Landon

Shirts:

• 5 T-shirts
• 2 Polo shirts
• 1 Long sleeve dress shirt
• 1 Icebreaker Wool Short-Sleeve Shirt

Jackets:

• 1 Icebreaker Wool Sweater
• 1 Marmot Softshell (Rain-Resistant, Medium Weight)

Pants/Shorts:

• 1 Jeans (my lightweight zip-off pants got too big before we left so I had to leave them behind- not the best idea to take jeans but now I have a smaller size of lightweight pants)
• 1 Tan RVCA pants
• 2 Shorts
• 1 Gym shorts

Underwear/socks:

• 5 Boxers
• 1 ExOfficio Boxer Brief
• 2 Pairs white socks
• 2 Pairs black pair socks
• 1 Pair Tall Wool Socks

Shoes:

• 1 Columbia Men’s Waterproof Hiking Boots
• 1 Pair Thin Flip Flops

Bathroom Bag:

• 1 pair reading glasses
• Toothbrush, floss, paste

Books:

• 2 Small Spanish Bibles and 2 Hymn books
• Small Notepad – for taking Spanish notes

Backpack & Misc:

• DaKine 45L Backpack
• Backpack Raincover
• Hat
• Smith Polarized Sunglasses
• Pebble Smartwatch
• Eagle Creek Money Belt (loops around belt)

All clothes packed in waterproof bags, Alyssa’s on the left and Landon’s on the right

Shared Packing List (depending on whose backpack still has room :)

Entire Packing List – Clothes, Electronics, Books, and Misc.

Electronics (shared):

• 1 MacBook Pro 13-inch with Retina Display and 1 Dell Latitude 13-inch
• Western Digital 2TB Slim, Ultra-Portable External Hard Drive (USB 3.0)
• Apple iPad 2 Tablet
• iPhone 4S
• HTC One S phone
• Canon EOS Rebel T1i Digital Camera
• Canon 18-135mm Image Stabilizing Zoom Lens
• Canon 50mm f/1.4 USM Lens
• Spy Lens – 90 Degree Lens Adapter for SLR Lenses
• Chargers – iPad and iPhone share charger, 2 computer chargers, 2 USB outlet adapters
• Portable Power Pack – Universal USB Charger for Phones & Electronics or a Smaller One

Miscellaneous / Shared stuff for L&A:

• Waterproof Dry Sacks – used for storing both our clothes and electronics
• Eagle Creek Mesh Zip-Case
• Eagle Creek Mesh Zip-Half Cube
• Sunscreen
• Bugspray
• Powder laundry soap
• 2 Small Therm-A-Rest Compressible Pillows
• Down blanket
• 2 Umbrellas
• Leg Money Belt (for when we had to carry a lot of cash)
• 4-digit Combo-Lock for Backpacks & Lockers at Hostels
• Cable Combo-Lock for Locking Backpacks to Furniture
• 1 Petzl Zipka LED Headlamp with Retractable-Cord Band
• 1 Petzl LED Headlamp with Elastic Band
• MSR Chamois Towel for Showering
• 2 Small Earbud Headphones & Headphone Splitter
• Baygone mosquito repellant electrical heater
• 2 Day Bag Backpacks

Documents:

• Flight info
• Vaccines
• Passports & 2 extra copies
• Debit & Credit cards – each carry 1 credit card and 2 debit cards
• List of address/phone numbers of family/emergency contacts
• Trip itinerary

Day bag contents (make sure this will all fit in regular backpack too) this is just what we usually carry on the bus with us:

• Water bottle
• Toilet Paper
• Sunscreen
• Hand lotion
• Kleenex
• Snacks
• iPad & iPhone
• Headphones
• Chapstick
• Pen & small notebook

It looks like a long packing list, but it’s every single thing that we brought. It’s not much for a packing list for our South America trip, but it all fits in our backpacks!

Leave a comment if you have any favorite gear you don’t leave home without!

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