Travel Check List
Essentials
Passport
Airline Tickets
USD cash
USD in Traveller's checks
Electricity converter plug
Lots of earplugs (bring some on plane!)
Pictures of loved ones!
Clothing
Pants,Shorts
Windbreaker
Sweatshirt
Rain poncho
Hats
Small umbrella
Sunglasses
Flip-flops
Cheap sneakers
Hiking sneakers
5 short sleeve, 2 long sleeve shirts
7 days socks/underwear
Bathing suit
Pens / Pencil
Garbage /cloth bag for dirty clothes
Wire fishing line for tying up things
Little camera, big camera, holders
Small camera tripod
All kinds of reading material
Magic marker to mark film canisters
Reading glasses
Notepads
Screwdriver for glasses
Small magnifying glass
Many sandwich bags
Scissors
Immersion heater for heating water
Cleaning cloth for glasses
Small needle and thread kit
Glue
Travel Aids
Lonely Planet Guidebook
Rough Guide Guidebook
Lonely Planet Hindu Phrase book
Sheets for ashram stays
Blow up pillow
Sleeping bag pouch (for dirty hotel beds)
Backpack for day trips, walking around
Map of India
Reading light
Small calculator (for money conversion)
Medicine-Health-Hygiene
First Aid kit
Doxycline (all purpose antibiotic, especially good for 'traveler's diarrhea)
Imodium-AD
Swiss-Criss (natural laxative)
Sunscreen
Melatonin (natural sleeping and jet-lag agent, highly recommended, sets body rythms to local time)
Kyolic (garlic medicine)
Nutrobiotic (natural antibiotic made from grapefruit seeds)
Vitamin B,C
Tissues: Small packages
Bactine-like products
Disinfectant liquid (in hand-soap dispenser, very useful)
Towelettes for hands
Nail clippers (never bite your nails in India!)
Mylanta (indigestion medicine)
Bandaids
Oscillococcinum (Homeopathic flu medicine)
Pepto-Bismol tablets (very useful!)
Chlorella tablets, spirulina
ThroatLozenges
"Green Ban" mosquito repellant
Hypodermic needles (in case you have to go to the hospital)
Security
Flashlights
Knives (Swiss/multi-purpose, other sharp knife)
Cable lock (useful in trains to lock suitcase to train, prevents walking away...)
Small locks (always keep all bags locked)
Money belt and/or passport pouch
Clock radio alarm device (check Sharper Image)Journal ling
Dictaphone and tape (to capture the sounds of India)
Laptop computer, Pen drives Extra
laptop battery (if possible)
Airmail paper
Several good pens
High protein snacks (peanut butter, nuts)
Dried soups/dehydrated food
Herbal teas
Turkey-jerky (for a quick protein pickup)Energy bars
Comfort food
