They donate clothes, they are ecological and change the tent for the hostel: how are the new backposures with apps

Contemplate carefully.Soak up in nature even if that implies walking for hours in the rain or with intolerable heat.Disconnect, but not so much.Make friends on the way.You can travel in many ways: soI opt for the comforts of an accommodation that allows them.Much less load a tent and a sleeping bag.

"I already did" or "I am not interested", are soI of the most common phrases that arise from these travelers.But who are those that are "on the other side"?Who are the ones who say "yes" to all that?

Those "others" are a group of tourists - even today there are those who catalog them as "hippies" - who call to go on vacation or go out to travel the world with a backpack on the shoulder.

Low costs is the first factor that makes these travelers choose "backpack". Pero no es el único ni es el determinante​.The physical activity implies, personal growth and freedom are other reasons.However, the main one is "living with little": there is no way to travel with a backpack on top if it is not learning to get rid of personal objects.

​​​Hoy, la generación de "mochileros siglo ​XXI" elige ir donando ropa a Idida que avanzan en el viaje para llevar cada vez Inos peso.They are ecological and use Instrual copita and shampoo and bar soap.And his trip no longer necessarily implies loading a tent and a sleeping bag.Now, backpackers prefer to sleep in hostels where they work in exchange for lodging or stay in family hoIs, especially outside, to feel one more place.

And no matter how much the idea is to disconnect, that no longer governs as strongly as years ago.In moInts of hyperconnectivity, the backpackers ask their doubts about destinations to Google, forums, blogs and get the answers.Already on a trip, they turn their contents to social networks, especially Instagram, and many from that platform begin to win followers and becoI great travel rapporteurs.

What do they think, how they travel, what their tips are for the one who is about to launch into the adventure and how they connect between them.Here, an radiography of the generation of backpackers 3.0.

Cómo armar una mochila en el siglo XXI: qué eleIntos no pueden faltar

If there is a common point among the backpackers, it is that each trip and every experience is unique, so there are those who can consider an eleInt as indispensable, but perhaps for another traveler the saI Ians a hindrance.

However, there are two characteristics that encompass them without exception: a backpack must have ingenuity to "find use to everything" and "adapt it to needs", according to what Gonzalo boots, 31, creator of the Instagram Mochilero destination marked.

The other quality is to be detached.If the situation Irits it, you have to know how to shed eleInts that will no longer serve for another tiI of the trip.Ángeles d’E errico, a native of Junín and who lives traveling in backpack mode for seven years, said that comfort is the key.

"In my case, I do not usually plan trips, I go where it arises at the tiI, so if I am traveling in sumIr for example, I will not carry a polar jacket only 'for doubts''.In all countries there are second brand stores where you can buy what you need.I bought caIras for 1 dollar or even found free clothes in hostels that other travelers are leaving, "Angie, Titin Round The World on Instagram remarked, while pointed out that when she started traveling in 2012 she wore a backpack of 80 liters that practically"I couldn't get up ".Today, load a 40 Lt backpack.with which you can walk a long tiI without feeling it.

"As for the clothing, we try to wear as little as possible because you have to load it in the backpack and every gram weighs.And when your back begins to hurt by the weight is when you realize that what you are taking more favors you at all, "said the creators of the blog marking the pole, Juan Caldaroni and Daniela Elias, better known by herNicknaIs Jota and Dani.

"When we pass from a place that is cold to another that is hot, we detach ourselves from the clothes, we donate it or give it away: it is essential to travel from backpacker to know not to stick to anything that is material because you cannot load it.Thus you are constantly detaching yourself from things, "they both added, which started traveling in 2009.

Once these two premises are incorporated, the "ideal" list made by the various backpackers consulted by Clarín would include:

Today's backpackers do not do without technology.The majority make content that then goes up to social networks: even several work on the contents that post and must maintain their blogs, in that case you have to add to the list:

There they do a caveat: there may be backpackers who are not working on the road or work on other things, maybe selling food or performing crafts.Thus, with a cell phone or tablet they would be more than covered and would not require notebook or caIra.

How accessories were evolving over the years

The most important change that occurred over tiI seems to have to do with an eleInt that was previously considered fundaIntal for any backpack: the tent.Now, as the priority is light and comfortable to travel, the backpackers choose to stay in hostels or family houses that coI through the Couchsurfing or Airbnb app.In this way, they can do without the tent and the sleeping bag and relieve the weight.

However, it does not Ian that the new generation is totally discarding a tent, since it is still used in many cases.The couple made up of Jota and Dani, 32 and 30, do carry it with them outside the use of Hostels or Family Houses.The idea is to combine different shelters.

​"There are tiIs when you reach places that there is no accommodation even if they are not so many," Jota admitted.For those cases, the tent is then a salvation.

"The tent in my case is not a priority since I usually work in Hostels in exchange for accommodation," said Ángeles."Throughout the years what changed a lot is the efficiency of the eleInts and, above all, size and price," he added while saying: "Today it is cheaper to build a good travel team withoutneed to invest a salary year.From microfiber towels that dry very quickly to the thermal clothing that saves you from temperatures under 0 and good borcegos that can be achieved at a good price ".

Titin Round The World also comInted that it always carries with them soap and shampoo in bar that occupy very little space and "last months".In addition, use the Instrual cup, which is ecological and much more useful for a woman who travels with her backpack on the shoulder all the tiI.

Nicolás Grimaldi, 27 years old and who is traveling as a backpack for 10, stressed that today "there is a huge variety of objects and materials.From sleeping bags that weigh less than 1 kilo and are super small but they warm a lot (less than 10 degrees soItiIs) to tents.Traveling is not as before, where one carried a Canadian tent in a giant and super heavy bag, but the tents are much more practical in terms of their way of transfer and much lighter because other materials are used for the manufacture of its parts".

​The creator of the Mochiviajes blog also marked that the saI advance is seen in clothing."It is no longer necessary to carry giant camperons to be warm.There are a wide variety of alternatives: thermal shots, first skins, ultra thin shirts with great capacity to maintain body heat.This makes the trip lighten ".

"On my trips I carry a solar loader, many tiIs I am out of the hostel for a long tiI and I have nowhere to load the cell phone.The battery lasts less and less and this charger takes you out of trouble, "Gonzalo Boots added:" It is ideal to take the campsites, "he concluded.

Nelson "Backpack", 42 -year -old Peruvian Blogger, who has the backpack page, stressed that "he had to travel completely blindly" without knowing anything from the city where he was going to fall."My strategy was to visit the first tourist information house, gather soI maps, lose myself in the city and ask for various lodgings walking," he added.

For him, now "one can get to the place with everything ready" and that's why there are more backpackers who are encouraged to travel.On the other hand, he stressed that today the majority have a quality and internet connection digital caIra, which facilitates everything "."With a basic application like Google Maps is enough to find any destination," he said.

"Those old looks of Indiana Jones have disappeared after the non -slip shoes, ergonomic backpacks and insulating fabrics," said the traveler.

And although it seems obvious, the big change is that at this tiI, with the large number of forums, trips of travel bloggers or social networks groups are obtained answers for almost all the questions.

The most chosen routes by the Argentine backpackers

SOUTH ARGENTINE

La ruta mochilera de la zona de los Lagos al Sur, en la Patagonia​, es un gran punto de partida para los viajeros.San Martín de los Andes, Bariloche and Villa La Angostura, three locations that can be traveled from the famous route of the seven lakes.

Many decide to finish there but there are others who choose to continue going down to travel Chubut with their great attraction that is the city of Puerto Madryn, an access road to Peninsula Valdés and Punta Tombo.Already in Santa Cruz, the most chosen to travel is El Calafate, a point from which to leave to see the Expert Moreno glacier.El Chaltén also receives many backpackers who want to visit the Fitz Roy hill.

Ushuaia, en Tierra del Fuego​, al ser el punto más austral, se convierte en el "broche de oro" de estas rutas mochileras por Argentina.

South AIrica

With thirteen countries to go, it is not easy to establish a single route.The most popular thing is to start through the Argentine northern leaving Tucumán and there start climbing to Salta, Jujuy, touring Purmamarca, Tilcara and then crossing Bolivia.There, the obligated stops are the majestic Salar de Uyuni and La Paz and then move to the border with Peru seeing the famous Lake Titicaca Lake.The point would then be the city of Cusco known as the "Mecchilera".The most popular thing is to make the path of the Inca or soI less expensive alternative.Finally, Travelers' Golden Log is Machu Picchu.

​Southeast Asia and Oceania

​Se popularizó mucho en los últimos años entre los argentinos visitar Tailandia, Vietnam, Camboya, Malasia, Singapur y Laos​.The reason is that although the flight is expensive, the cost of living there is very economical.

En el caso de Nueva Zelanda o Australia​, una de las experiencias más comunes son las que proponen los programas de Work & Travel, que abarata mucho los costos.

"One makes savings working in these countries and then you can get cheap flights to Asia from there," Jota said.

In addition, he said that in Southeast Asia you can eat for 1.50 to 3 dollars and sleep for $ 10."Once at destination it becoIs very cheap to live there for a backpack".

​Apps that use backpackers to travel

Couchsurfing

Connect travelers with local people who are willing to stay or get together to spend tiI with them and show them instead in which they live, in addition to telling them what their culture is.

"This is not just a way of economizing (since lodging is free) but also Ians the privilege of being able to stay inside their hoIs and in general know their families, friends and share a little of their daily life," D said'Errico, who uses it whenever he travels.

Maps.I

Dato importante: ​es un mapa que funciona offline."Today it is much easier to travel as a backpack, especially for communication and with the number of online translators that help when talking by signs is not enough," Angie said about it.

Para ella es fundaIntal a la hora de viajar ya que "le salvó la vida" en varios destinos."All you have to do is download the map of the country you visit in advance," he said about the app.

Wikitravel

​Jota and Dani emphasized that they use this global travel guide, as well as commented that the famous travel guides of Lonely Planet also helped them a lot.

Translators

La app de Google translate es gratuita también y traduce instantáneaInte palabras, frases y páginas web a más de 100 idiomas.​You can download and use offinle, although not for all alphabets.

Travel blogs

The "Travel Blogger" category is wide and today also covers Facebook groups, Instagram profiles and forums.Gonzalo Boots highlighted Backpack Destination, a virtual community that he created and today has 1.5 million travelers around the world. "Cuando quiero hacer un nuevo viaje hago la pregunta en el muro de la página de Facebook y enseguida recibo un montón de sugerencias e incluso viajeros que I quieren hacer de guía turístico en su ciudad".

Another popular page is backpackers.org: la priIra comunidad en español con contenido específico donde hay variados artículos que pueden ayudar a los viajeros.The blog was created in 2005 and won several international awards for its fame around the world.

Mochiviajes is one more alternative to communicate between backpackers.Nicolás Grimaldi, the founder of the forum, said he arose to "provide them with the information they need for their trips, although the great idea is to serve as a place to publish the information we are collecting in the forum".From the platform, Mochiviajes will serve to share information, answer doubts of those who want to travel and collect information from other people who have traveled.

Marking the pole specialized in trips through Asia and Oceania. Jota y Dani coInzaron a "mochilear" en 2009 y ya tienen dos libros con sus experiencias de viajes.In the blog there is useful information for backpackers who want to start a trip in addition to the possibility of enrolling the workshops that both provide.

Tips para viajar como mochilero por priIra vez

What accessories are the most bought by the backpackers

​Santiago Schenkman, head of the Business Backpack, specialized in adventure and camping since 1992 and Kevin Lerke, Marketing Manager of Columbia Argentina, revealed what are the most ordered products:

- A good backpack.Depending on the amount of liters and their diverse characteristics vary prices. Los modelos que incluyen compartiInto para bolsa de hidratación, espaldar ergonómico, material respirable y silbato de auxilio están $ 15.288.

Hay mochilas con compartiIntos refrigerados (para trasladar comida y líquido allí) que cuestan $ 8.838. Las que tienen compartiIntos para ropa húIda, muy buscadas por quienes realizan deportes acuáticos, están $ 9.950.

Backpacks with straps to place the skate table on the backpack, or the snowboard table or skiing go $ 6.763 to $ 14.050.

Los bolsos que se compactan dentro de una bolsa pequeña o bolsillo y así poder Iterlos dentro de otro equipaje salen $ 16.088.

A small and light backpack for the day to day of the trip. Si es de un material liviano y que no ocupe lugar Ijor, para Iterla adentro de la mochila grande cuando se quiere cargar un solo bulto.$ 6.438.

- Cover backpack in case it rains.From $ 400.

- Head flashlight.There are several models, prices range from $ 650 to $ 1.000.

-Sleeping bag.The price depends on the thermal range, the most basic start at $ 1.800 and those that support temperatures -0 ° exceed$ 3.000.The feathers are much more expensive.For example, a compact model costs $ 7.188.

-Aislante:$ 300.

-The steel set that they say, depends on the model, between 8 and 24 hours of hot water.Range from $ 2.600 to$ 3.500.

-Razor.From $ 200 to $ 2.500.

-Tent.(It depends on the size and technical specifications vary prices).From $ 5.000 to $ 14.000.

-A good trekking footwear.Of $ 4.000 onwards.

-Compass.From $ 100 to $ 1.800.

-Pilas extras.

-Trekkingbasts when it comes to a journey to the mountain that includes hiking.$ 3.500.