The Essential Survival Kit For Any Summer Vacation

Summer vacations are the perfect chance to get away from your regular life, either through relaxation or adventure. Whichever type of holiday you head off on, you’ll need to make sure you have the following crucial items in your suitcase.

The extrovert’s summer blowout

All great summer vacations have their own soundtracks. We all have that one song that takes us back to the beach, the bars, the restaurants, or the mountain trails. If you’re going away with friends or family, then there’s no better way to create a shared musical experience than blasting out the anthem of your summer on some portable speakers.

Gone are the days of carrying gigantic speaker systems, that run out of power after one song. Now speakers are more mobile than ever, and some of them produce the best sound quality you can imagine.

Several speakers can be connected together if you’re having a bigger party, and all of them can be controlled from an app on your phone.

Now all you need is good friends, delicious foods, refreshing drinks, and great music, and your summer vacation cannot fail.

The introvert’s escape

Sometimes summer vacations are all about calm, relaxation, and quiet. For others that can mean isolation. Getting away from it all could mean spending a week or two next to the pool or at the beach, with nothing but a good book and some relaxing music. If you really want to shut out the world, you’re going to need some effective noise-canceling headphones.

The Sony MDR1000x headphones let you immerse yourself completely in your music while still being compact and ready for travel. The bluetooth headphones are comfortable to wear and feature a gesture panel on the earpads to easily switch to the next track.

These headphones can even make the journey a breeze, as you focus on relaxing rather than the stresses of airports, planes, trains, and automobiles.

Round off the relaxing holiday with a great selection of books to read and a massage, and you’ll return to normal life with your batteries charged and your life in perspective.

Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel - and the direction Culture Trip is moving in.

Culture Trip launched in 2011 with a simple yet passionate mission: to inspire people to go beyond their boundaries and experience what makes a place, its people and its culture special and meaningful — and this is still in our DNA today. We are proud that, for more than a decade, millions like you have trusted our award-winning recommendations by people who deeply understand what makes certain places and communities so special.

Increasingly we believe the world needs more meaningful, real-life connections between curious travellers keen to explore the world in a more responsible way. That is why we have intensively curated a collection of premium small-group trips as an invitation to meet and connect with new, like-minded people for once-in-a-lifetime experiences in three categories: Culture Trips, Rail Trips and Private Trips. Our Trips are suitable for both solo travelers, couples and friends who want to explore the world together.

Culture Trips are deeply immersive 5 to 16 days itineraries, that combine authentic local experiences, exciting activities and 4-5* accommodation to look forward to at the end of each day. Our Rail Trips are our most planet-friendly itineraries that invite you to take the scenic route, relax whilst getting under the skin of a destination. Our Private Trips are fully tailored itineraries, curated by our Travel Experts specifically for you, your friends or your family.

We know that many of you worry about the environmental impact of travel and are looking for ways of expanding horizons in ways that do minimal harm - and may even bring benefits. We are committed to go as far as possible in curating our trips with care for the planet. That is why all of our trips are flightless in destination, fully carbon offset - and we have ambitious plans to be net zero in the very near future.