Video: TravelSmith Travel Tip #20 - How and Why to Pack Light

Adventure travel legend Richard Bangs is back once again with yet more helpful tips for travelers. This time out, Richard gives us some advice on how to travel lighter, and why it is good for us to do so. He learned this lesson on an expedition to Ethiopia, where he lost his pack containing all of his gear, but still managed to have one of the best journeys ever. As someone who takes pride in traveling light, this particular video especially hit home.

Video: Adventures In Puerto Rico

When we normally think about visiting Puerto Rico, it usually conjures images of relaxing on the beach, with a cold beverage in your hand, and enjoying plenty of warm sunshine. Obviously, the island nation has all of that to offer, but for adventure travelers, it has plenty to share as well. The video below, brought to us by our friend Richard Bangs, shows off a few of those options, and may just have you rethinking the destination for your next trip.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tips #19 - How to Take a Great Photo in the Field

In what has become a regular Wednesday feature here on the Adventure Blog, we have another excellent travel tip from Richard Bangs. This time out, Richard shares some tips that all of us can appreciate: how to take great photos in the field. As usual, our intrepid guide has a story to share with how he gained these bits of wisdom. In this case, it was knowledge he picked up while watching a photographer for National Geographic go about his business while on an expedition through Sumatra.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tips #18 - How To Avoid Festival Mistakes

It's Wednesday, which means it's time for another great travel time courtesy of Richard Bangs and TravelSmith. This time out, Richard has some tips to help us avoid making mistakes while attending a festival or other cultural event. This may seem like a no brainer, but it is a lesson he learned the hard way while visiting Spain to cover the running of the bulls at Pamplona. I won't spoil the story, but lets just say the reporter got more than he had bargained for. Always wear fast shoes!

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tip #17 - Adding More Pages To Your Passport

Here's a handy travel tip from our friend Richard Bangs that I'm sure more than a few of us have wondered about. If you're a frequent traveler, you know doubt like to collect stamps in your passport. But what happens when you start to run out of pages? Richard explains how to quickly, and easily, add pages to your passport prior to embarking on a journey.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tips #16 - Cultural Sensitivity

It's Wednesday, which means its time for more great travel tips from our friend Richard Bangs. This time, Richard has a story about a funny encounter he had in New Guinea while scouting locations for a BBC documentary, during which he came across one of the indigenous folks while in a remote region. That encounter taught him a thing or two about being sensitive to the culture of the place he is visiting, and he shares some of those lessons here.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tips #15 - How To Find A Great Restaurant Anywhere In The World

In his latest travel tips video, Richard Bangs answers one of the most important question that travelers face when visiting a foreign land – where to find good food while on the road. As always, Richard shares a story from his his own travels that taught him a valuable lesson. In this case, it involves a trip to Chile, a fresh bowl of goat blood, and a quick trip to the restroom.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tip #14 - How To Keep Cool In The Heat

Richard Bangs, the father of modern adventure travel, is back once again with more tips to help us stay safe and comfortable on our next trip. This time out, Richard has some suggestions on how to stay cool in extremely hot environments. Tips he picked up after a particularly grueling expedition to Libya. 

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tip #12 - Travel Immunizations

Richard Bangs is back this week with some more helpful advice on a topic that is often overlooked by many travelers – travel immunizations. As always, he shares some of the wisdom that he has gained after years of travel to remote corners of the globe. This time, he learned an important lesson after enduring a bout of malaria while in Brazil. Something he hopes he can help the rest of us avoid.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tips #12 - Getting Through Foreign Customs and Immigration

World traveler Richard Bangs returns again this week with more good travel tips for those heading abroad. In this video he shares advice on how to successfully navigate through customs and immigration without getting yourself into trouble. He even shares an experience of his own from when he was traveling in Ethiopia and learned a valuable lesson.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tips #11 - Power While Traveling

In the past, one of the more troubling issues we had while traveling was keeping our gadgets and gear charged with power while in remote places. That isn't nearly as difficult as it once was, thanks to some great technological innovations over the past few years. This week, our friend Richard Bangs is back to share some tips on how to stay powered up while traveling, something he learned a bit about while spending time in Annapurna Base Camp with Ed Viesturs.

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Video: TravelSmith Travel Tip #8 - How Not To Get Lost In A New City

We're back with another travel tip courtesy of our friend Richard Bangs this week, and yes, if you're keeping track at home, we went out of order, posting Tip #9 last week. This time out, Richard has some helpful tips to avoid getting lost while visiting a foreign city, or to help you find your way back home if you do. These are certainly some good things to keep in mind, and would have come in handy when I got lost in Cairo a few years back.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tip #9 - Getting Through Security With Ease

If you're a frequent traveler, you've no doubt experienced the frustration of passing through security at the airport. At times, it can be a test of patience to say the least. But Richard Bangs is back this week with another travel tip, this time sharing some good things to keep in mind in order to get through the security check as quickly and easily as possible. This is certainly something we can all appreciate.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tip #7 - Keeping Track Of Luggage Requirements

Our friend Richard Bangs is back once again this week with another helpful travel hint for those heading off on an adventure. This time, he shares some ideas on how to avoid expensive surprises at the airport in terms of fees for overweight luggage, something he learned the hard way on an expedition to Antarctica.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tip #6: Home Safety While You're Away

Who hasn't left home for an extended trip, only to wonder if we remembered to lock the doors and turn off the stove. Adventure travel expert Richard Bangs is back this week with another travel tip, this time offering some suggestions on home safety while we're on the road, something he learned the hard way on a trip to North Korea.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tips #5: Renew Your Passport In Record Time

Our friend Richard Bangs is back this week with another video with tips to help us travel smarter. This time out, he gives us some tips about renewing our passport, including how to get it renewed as fast as possible, something he learned from personal experience.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tips #4 - How To Travel Wallet Safe

Adventure travel guru Richard Bangs returns again this week with yet another video sharing tips on how to travel safer and smarter. This time out, Richard tells us how to travel "wallet safe," which is to say he gives some pointers on preventing us from getting permanently separated from the contents of said wallet while exploring a foreign country. He even shares a tale of his own, in which he learned a valuable lesson about keeping credit cards, cash and other valuables close at hand.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tips #3 - How To Hold Onto Your Luggage

With 843 passport stamps to his name, Richard Bangs knows a thing or two about travel. That's what makes his new travel tips video series so useful and interesting. This time out, we get some tips on how to keep tabs on our luggage, what to put on your luggage tags, and how to keep your bags secure while traveling. Good tips from a man who has made more trips than just about any of us.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tips #2 - How To Prevent Jetlag

A few weeks back I posted the first in a new series of videos in which our friend Richard Bangs shares travel tips that will sure come in handy for any of us who hit the road on a regular basis. In that first video, he shared tips on how to avoid getting the dreaded "traveler's tummy" and in the second video he tells us how to avoid jetlag. If you've ever experienced severe jetlag, you'll appreciate any options that help alleviate the problem. It can be a brutal to overcome, but if you follow Richard's advice you might be able to get through your next bout with out too much trouble.

Video: TravelSmith Travel Tips #1 - Avoiding Traveler's Tummy

The start of the new year also marks the start of a new series of travel videos from our friend Richard Bangs. He has just launched the first of a weekly set of clips that will offer tips on how to travel smarter and more safely in the year ahead. In this video, he tells us how to avoid the dreaded traveler's tummy, something that most of us have probably had the misfortune of experiencing at some point in our wanderings. He also shares a story of how he got hit with giardia while paddling the Colorado River, which resulted in him having to be airlifted to safety. There is a good lesson for us all here.