p.1 #1 · Travel Advice for Taking Camera Gear to Nepal
I am traveling out of country for the first time and I am going to Nepal. I am mostly going to be doing landscape and street photography with my AFS 24-70 and D800(I think 4 lbs total with that setup). I want to take my AFS 200-500(5 lbs) as well because I was told by the person im staying with that there will be a wide variety of birds when im there. Basically I just have concerns about weight for travelling. I dont trust my gear being in a checked bag and I worry it might be too much weight for carry-on. The lowest carry-on weight throughout the whole trip is 11 lbs for carry on and personal item on Buddha Airlines from kathmandu to pokhara. With just the telephoto lens and its case in my carry-on backpack and with my lithium batteries and charger, it comes out to 9 pounds 6 ounces so it fits within their limit, however, I dont know if they'll weigh my camera and smaller wide lens that will be on my shoulder strap. If they weigh my camera then ill be overweight. Has anyone with lots of travel experience dealt with this sort of thing before? Can I wear my camera separate and have it unweighed so that I clear the weight check? Or will I be forced to combine and maybe put an item in my checked baggage? How do people travel with wildlife lenses and keep them from being stolen? Any information or advice would be very appreciated as well as any bonus tips and things to know or consider before I leave for this trip and to know for future travel. Thanks!
