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Planning for the Central America Trip

The departure day is fast approaching! 21 days following the Route of Maya in Central America with Overseas Adventure Travel in which we will be visiting El Salvador, Hondorous, Guatemala and Belize. This is our second trip with OAT. The first adventure was an absolute fabulous journey to Egypt in 2011 just after the uprising to remove President Mubarak from office. I have to say that we felt very safe and it was the best time to go - not too many tourists, we pretty much had the country to ourselves!

Figuring out what technology and photo stuff to bring is the most important since we are photographers after all. I have been struggling for some time now on the ‘right’ photo bag - years really. I don’t want to be tied down with a bunch of gear and a huge backpack like when in Egypt. The huge backpack was cumbersome and heavy on the hot days trekking through the temples. This time, I have decided to still take that huge Lowpro pack for the plane trips since I will be bringing the MacBook Pro for offloading photos and journaling. We have three 5 hour bus rides in which having the laptop will be perfect for keeping up on the journal writing. For the daily excursions, using a small bag that will contain just the Nikon 5200, 14-55mm and the Tamron 10-24mm lenses, couple of polarizers and neutral density filters, 2 batteries, two 16 GB SD cards and the Nikon coolpix waterproof point-n-shoot for the snorkeling in Belize. Oh, and the Cliff bars, can’t leave home without them. The small bag also has a rain proof cover that hopefully will protect everything from the rainy season - fingers crossed.


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the huge bag
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the small bag
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