DESPITE the strength of the Aussie dollar and competition from other destinations, backpackers still rate Australia at the top of their "bucket list", a major tourism conference has been told.
The answer is that you need everything you'd bring on a 1 day backpacking trip, except for a little more food, fuel, toilet paper, and what ever other extra consumables you need to stay out an additional 2 days.
Whenever I see a backpacker carrying wide-mouth Nalgene bottles, I cringe, because I know that three of them add 15 ounces to the weight of their backpack, that could be easily eliminated.