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Camping In Mexico – You Must Be Flexible To Love It

If you are a camper and you enjoy a challenge, a camping trip to Mexico could be just the challenge you are looking for. It is a country of mystery and intrigue, but is you have never camped before, leave visiting Mexico until you have a little experience. Finding yourself off the main highway and in the dessert is easily done and you have to be prepared for any eventuality.

Planning is essential, and the trip to successful camping is to take everything you need, but not too much! Because regardless of how careful your planning you have to be adventurous, because and incident free trip is rare.

Yes, prepare for every eventuality, but also be prepared to experience the most amazing camping opportunities. If you camp in Mexico you will come home with incredible lasting memories, but to remind you again, this is not for the faint hearted.

You have to be prepared to camp and dress for any conditions, and one night you could be in the searing dessert and the next in snowy, pine forested mountains. One good thing is that dessert night conditions are cold, so you will have clothing for both these eventualities. You may even experience tropical storms!

Flexibility is key to your enjoyment of this experience, unpredictability has to embraced, and carefully laid plans, change at the very last minute. Because of the extremes, even the best lad plans go astray and you have to be able to adapt to this.

Use camping checklists, you will find these online, they will help you ensure you have everything you need in its most compact form. Shop for the things you can’t live without before you leave the US. While shopping in the stores of another country is great fun, the products are completely different, this especially pertains to luxuries.

Never drink Mexican tap or river water, in fact no-matter where you camp, don’t drink the tap water, you know nothing about it. Camping with dysentery is no fun; take it from me, the idiot who ate fresh oysters from Brazilian waters. Bottled water is a must for drinking and you may have to bathe in a puddle or river water, so take biodegradable toiletries. We all have to do our bit to protect the environment. Make sure you take toilet paper. Remember the Baz Lerman song “sunscreen”, take that too.

Make sure you have an emergency medical kit, you need it to be compact, yet comprehensive, find a checklist for this online too. You never know when something as small as a headache will happen, or an emergency like your husband sliding down an arroyo and grazing his hands and knees, and giving you a headache.