Wondering what to pack for your gap year? Want the very best kit for hostel hopping or jungle trekking? Then you need the ultimate gap year starter kit from Craghoppers! This exclusive collection of premier Craghoppers kit is everything any budding backpacker needs to get them started and make their around the world adventures that little bit easier.
Please note this competition is now closed.
I’ve partnered up with the awesome team at Craghoppers to bring you one of the biggest and best competitions Bemused Backpacker has ever run!
Competition Time.
The ultimate gap year starter kit from Craghoppers consists of everything you will need to get your gap year off to a roaring start. This includes:
- A Craghoppers 65 litre rucksack.
- An adjustable webbing money belt.
- A Nosilife insect repellent sleep liner.
- A pair of dry bags.
- A packing Cube.
- A super large microfibre towel.
- A Craghoppers corey fleece.
- A pair of Bear Grylls survivor trousers. (For any female entrants this prize will be changed to a pair of Kiwi Pro Stretch Trousers).
- A Bear Grylls core waterproof jacket.
This entire awesome haul is worth over £300, and it can be all yours!
Runner Up Prizes!
10 runners up will each win a copy of my book Backpacking: The Ultimate Guide To First Time Around The World Travel! So even if you don’t have the equipment to help you start your gap year, you’ll have all the information, advice and inspiration you need!
How To Enter.
Entering could not be simpler.
Simply enter your email and subscribe to Bemused Backpacker in the sidebar box to your right and leave a comment in the section below saying what one item you can’t live without when you travel. It can be something useful, something practical or something you like just for fun. It doesn’t matter. There is no right or wrong answer.
Subscribing is ESSENTIAL to win as this will be the email I contact you on.
Want MORE chances to enter? That’s easy too.
- Follow Bemused Backpacker on Facebook
- Follow Bemused Backpacker on Twitter
- Follow Craghoppers on Facebook
- Follow Craghoppers on Twitter
Each one of these counts as one extra entry, so you have up to 5 chances to enter!
(If you are already signed up or following Bemused Backpacker or Craghoppers, then thank you! You can still be counted.
All you have to do is mention that in the comment and answer the question.
The competition will run until midnight on Wednesday 30th September and the lucky winners will be picked out completely at random and notified by Saturday 3rd October 2015.
My decision is final and I reserve the right to change the competition at any time. No cash alternatives can be offered.
Don’t forget the email sign up box is on the sidebar to the right, and you have to leave a comment AND sign up to be eligible to enter.
Good Luck!
Michael Huxley is a published author, professional adventurer and founder of the travel website, Bemused Backpacker. He has spent the last twenty years travelling to over 100 countries on almost every continent, slowly building Bemused Backpacker into a successful business after leaving a former career in emergency nursing and travel medicine, and continues to travel the world on numerous adventures every year.
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already signed up
I can’t travel without my mobile phone.
My mobile phone. I have completed all five entry methods
Can’t travel without my smile.
Suppose I should have said I’m already signed up 🙂
I cannot live without packing cubes! I cannot believe what difference they make in organizing and compressing the items in my pack!
Absolutely can’t travel without my camera. Must snap all the amazing places I see!
I can’t travel without an open mind and strong sense of curiosity
antibac hand gel !
Already signed up with craghoppers and now you too! 😀
This is a really hard question, i’d say my hiking boots, without them the journey cannot start.
The item that i never leave home without when camping would definetly be any one of my Craghoppers jackets !!!!
Couldn’t manage without my dry bags for keeping stuff organised (and dry!). Already signed up an following you thanks!
Fresh, dry, non smelly socks
Definitely my phone and camera! Already following you on all your SM 🙂 X
I know this sounds so girly but I always need a little make up!
I would say my pacsafe, that comes with me on every trip to keep my pack, well, safe!
Wouldn’t want to be without money. I can buy everything else with that 😀
Re-usable water bottle!! I only buy plastic bottles of water if there’s absolutely no other safe option.
(Already a subscriber)
Flask of Coffee 🙂
I can’t travel without a solar charger.
I couldn’t travel without a photo of my girlfriend…oh and my iPhone of course. Already signed up to your news letter and facebook and twitter
let’s hope for the best
would have to be my mobile phone
I can’t travel without my backpack as I keep everything in it, subscribed, followed, RT
sun glasses
Definitely dry bags, for clothes, batteries etc.
I cant travel without camera. Gotta catch the memory 😉
camera… most definitely
SPF sun cream……..especially if you are a redhead, I have a relative who never used sun cream in their younger days and unfortunately they got a form of skin cancer 😦
I could not go anywhere without my MP3 player, music is life after all 🙂
liked and followed both Bemused Backpacker and Craghoppers on FB and TW 🙂
I can’t travel without a positive attitude and optimism!
Clothes!
My tea bags!! I don’t care where I am in the world I do like to be able to have a cup of tea!!! ( I also couldn’t leave my camera or travel guide at home!). AMAZING competition – love Craghoppers!
phone
A notebook and pen. Walking’s when I do my clearest thinking.
Camera is a must, following bemused and cragghoppers on facebook
All completed
My camera and something good to read!
Suncream
My phone
My hone
I can’t live without mosquito repellent
My own spoon to use in dodgy looking eateries
A bottle of water
My phone, mostly for the camera and GPS functions, rather than for communicating!
a map
Can’t live with out my Mobil phone
A backpack. I just have to carry everything round in a carrier bag otherwise…
A small bag of bird seed. If you love spotting and photographing wildlife, it’ll persuade quite a wide range of things to hang around for longer!
My Craghoppers Kiwi trousers – so comfortable and hard wearing.
My walking boots…