What To Pack For Your Overseas Experience
Going on your ‘Overseas Experience’ (or ‘OE’ as has become the standard Kiwi slang) is almost a rite of passage for most young New Zealanders. Some take a year off between high school and university, others wait until they have a degree and then there are those that decide that their overseas experience is going to last forever!
Planning for an OE can seem a little daunting; living away from Mum and Dad, leaving the country and not having any set place to stay. It is important to be as prepared as you can be without taking the excitement and spontaneity out of your trip. What should you take with you, where will you stay? Should you look into backpacking tents and which pairs of socks are the warmest?
Backpacking, from whatever way you look at it, is a challenge. Stripping all your possessions down to the very basics and making them fit in a bag on your back is a weird and interesting way to get through life for any period of time. Some people have trouble cleaning out their rooms; pulling apart everything you own down to just necessities can seem impossible. With a bit of thought and planning, picking the essential gear you need can be a lot easier.
First of all, the backpack. Investing the extra money for the most comfortable backpack you can find is worth it. Remember, you have to carry everything in here, clothing, food, shoes, towel, backpacking tents, toiletries and first aid, it isn’t going to be light. Making sure you are as comfortable as you can be is important. Take a comfortable, light if possible, pair of waterproof shoes. Having a cheap or uncomfortable pair of shoes can make travel agony; a bad pair of shoes can really ruin your day. A fast drying towel, a separate compartment bag for toiletries and some wet wipes fit in well too (you never know when you are going to need to clean up a mess!). A first aid kit with bandages, aspirin, any prescription medication and some anti-septic is important too.
A good trick that experienced backpackers will share is taking all the clothing that you need to take with you and halve it. Clothing is what will weigh you down the most, only take the bare minimum. A couple of t-shirts, a pair of jeans and a warm jacket.
Backpacking tents are also a wise investment. Having safety of shelter that is always with you can come in handy. Plans falling through and being left with no place to stay without backpacking tents in a foreign country can be a horrible situation and you should do everything you can to avoid it.
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Bariloche Travel: History and Famous Visitors
Bariloche, presently a top destination for Argentina travel, was an isolated backwater town for much of its history, cut off politically and economically by an enormous distance from the modern and elegant Buenos Aires. However, the region has been host to some prestigious visitors, including the outlaw Butch Cassidy and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
In 1901, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were on the run, accompanied by their lady friend Etta Place. They boarded a ship to Argentina and ended up in the Chubut Province in southern Argentina, where they bought a ranch in Cholila. They homesteaded here for a few years and integrated themselves into local society, even befriending the governor and the sheriff. The outlaws are alleged to have robbed a bank in Rio Gallegos, 700 miles distant from Cholila, escaping with a vast sum of money. In 1905, they fled the ranch upon hearing that a Pinkerton agent was hot on their trail and passed went north to Bariloche. Here, they boarded the steamer Condor and cruised across Nahuel HaupĂ Lake over to Chile. Historians have traced the outlaws back to Argentina, where they are credited with robbing another bank and fleeing again to Chile. They have also been traced to Bolivia, where the two outlaws absconded with a mining company’s payroll and are said to have been shot dead in a shootout with Bolivian soldiers.
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Bariloche’s second famous visitor is Theodore Roosevelt, who traveled through Patagonia in 1913 following a failed presidential campaign. The trip through South America was originally intended as a specking trip. Roosevelt gave two speeches in Buenos Aires, where he expounded on the topic of panamericanism and democratic ideals. He then traveled to Patagonia, passing through Bariloche, where he exchanged ideas on conversation of natural resources with Francisco Moreno. In Bariloche, Roosevelt is said to have met with locals and a few expatriates. That night, the president and his hosts dined on a freshly caught river trout. Roosevelt, like his countrymen outlaws, also boarded the steamer Condor to cruise into Chile, traveling all the way to Puerto Varas and exploring the lakes there. From Patagonia, Roosevelt launched his expedition into the Amazon River. It was intended to be merely a cruise, but the Brazilian government convinced him to turn it into an exploration of the newly discovered “River of Doubt,” which became known as the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition.
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