Aluminium water bottle

porter

I was given a brand spanking new 1litre aluminium water bottle to take with me on my first trip to India.

Not only did I never use it but it bugged me every day to think that it was taking up so much valuable space in my pack.

Should have dumped it but kept thinking that it might be useful at some stage. But never was.

Don'take one !!

indiamike

Since I am a pure blood American I love my pancakes and French Toast. Everyone knows that you can find them in any tourist restaurant in India, but they are always covered with honey.

In Pune, I found a place that sold Aunt Jemima pancake syrup, it was a huge bottle and it cost me about eight USD for it. I lugged that giant bottle of syrup around with me halfway across the country never knowing when I would find pancakes.

It took me about a month and a half of lugging that bottle around until I finally finished it.

Luckily it never leaked!!!

Mike

Rianne

I always take a (plastic) water bottle with me, like the one you can use on a bicycle. When I couldn't get my feet warm during a stay in Dharamsala I used it as a hot water bottle and was very glad I had it with me.

-m2-

A friend lugged a 2kg jar of peanut butter around with him most of a winter. It was a plastic jar, but still....BTW, I've found ok peanut butter whenever I've needed it without much problem.

mike

Rianne

I just remembered that there is always, always, always one thing put in my backpack. It's a piece of cloth I bought on a market somewhere in Orissa. I use it as a shawl, protection against the sun, to cover my head in a mosk, a pillow, to sit on, to wipe off the sweat, to dry my tears. It is unthinkable to go on a journey without it.

Rianne

IVAN

One of the best things you can buy is a bottle carrier.
It should be able to fit 1l to 2l plastic bottles.
The best model by far, in my opinion, was one I bought in Kathmandu, just made of nylon straps. One big adjustable loop in the direction of the bottles lenght, which serves as a shoulder strap and three little horizontal loops that hold the bottle, plus one cross strap on the bottom so that the bottle cannot slip out.

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KevinRL

I had a very bad experience with a plastic water bottle while travelling in a bus in Indonesia.
The bloody thing leaked and flooded my camera, shorting out the battery etc and rendering the camera useless for some time.
Now I always travel with a Swiss metal (brass?) water bottle.

NedNav

A lot of people had these metal containers in Kathmandu - I though they were a waste of space - I used one of the newer plastic bag types that clips on the front strap of your pack - the ones that go in your pack with a hose round to the front looked useful too.

However a couple of ways the metal ones are useful - when buying hot black tea you could put the rest in your bottle - and some people would buy a large pot of tea, put what they couldn't drink in the bottle - go to bed and use the bottle as a bed warmer!

Try this with the plastic water bottles - they melted....