20 Great Gift Ideas For New, Keen Or Experienced Travelers
With Christmas just around the corner, I thought I’d try and help anybody stuck for pressie ideas for anyone who enjoys travelling or is just about to go on any travels.
- 1. World Mural Map
There’s something fascinating about a map, and I’m sure many other keen travelers would agree. This map is huge: one inch representing 206 miles!
- 2. Motion Detection Camera
Triggered by heat and movement, both the 35-mm and digital models of these simplified all-weather cameras take multiple images to capture backyard wildlife. Equipped with a wide-angle lens with 60-degree field of view and two test modes, these cameras will run for 21 days of 24-hour operation before needing fresh batteries.
- 3. Leather Passport Case - Cocoa
Okay, this is not cheap for a passport case but you have to admit it looks so damn sexy!
- 4. Smartcafe Hot Cafetiere Travel Cup
Good quality coffee in hard to come by in more countries than most. If you are like me and enjoy a quality cup of coffee every morning, this small cafetiere will do the trick!
- 5. Orginal Cushtie
On my first back-packing style trip with my mate Trev, I bought a small pillow before we left and was so glad I did! The dirty pillow’s offered by some of the guest houses along with some long bus rides, made this little item earn its space in a back-pack. This Cushtie I found look’s better than the pillow I bought, it’s more like a squishy cushion!
- 6. Sony GPS Device for Cybershot digital cameras
Keep track of your photo locations and dates easily with satellite precision. The GPS-CS1 calculates and records position data. When used with the supplied GPS Image Tracker software, the GPS-CS1 allows you to match the time and location data in the device with your photos. And by using the Picture Motion Browser software, supplied with certain Sony cameras, your photos will be shown on an online map, giving you a whole new way to organize, manage and enjoy your pictures.
- 7. Hand Held Tripod
If anyone plans to travel on their own, this little neat tool could come in handy when no one is around to take your picture for you.
- 8. The Travel Book
I personally bought this book myself and its excellent… one of the best bathroom books I own. The book dedicates a double page spread to every country of the world with some excellent images and small snippets of info.
- 9. The Cities Book
From reading the description, this book in the follow up from the Travel book but instead of detailing every country in the world, they look at each city in the world. If the person your buying the gift for is a city fan like me, this is going to be another great bathroom book (or a coffee table book if their prim and proper)
- 10. Men’s Irish Donegal Tweed Sweater
Ireland’s northernmost county is a land of peat bogs, sandy beaches, and windswept cliffs. In the shadow of the Blue Stack Mountains, the town of Donegal has been renowned for its handwoven wool sweaters for generations. Woven from wool that is flecked with the colors of Irish earth and sky, this comfortable sweater is hand-knit in blocks of tan and peat, charcoal and heather. Lightweight and insulating, wool is one of the most travel-friendly natural fabrics available and shrugs off Donegal’s morning mist with ease.
- 11. Alpaca Altiplano Scarf
Artisans in La Paz, Bolivia, chose the rich shades of superfine alpaca wool in this scarf to serve as a reminder of the Altiplano’s summer colors during the cold Andean winters. Alpaca wool was once reserved exclusively for Inca royalty, but over the centuries the soft, lightweight, and antistatic, superfine fibers have become a staple of Andean textile tradition. Handwoven of 100% alpaca on simple looms in a contemporary plaid with hand-twisted fringe.
- 12. Aquapac Whanganui Case
One of the great things about traveling out of the UK is being able to participate in water sports with nice weather. This tidy plastic bag keeps all your personal belongings safe and dry while you’re out having some water fun!
- 13. Tom Bihn Lap-top Back pack
If you need to take your lap-top along with your travels, it’s a good idea to store it in a bag that doesn’t scream “I’VE GOT AN EXPENSIVE LAP-TOP, AHH, AND I’ NEW HERE” and also a bag that is steardy. Tom Bhin’s bags offer both these requirements - In my eyes, these are the best bags money can buy.
- 14. Sennheiser PXC 150 headphones
I was first introduced to Sennhesier headphones around 5 years ago by my audio-geek friend Phil, I haven’t looked back since. These light weight, noise canceling head phones make a perfect gift for any traveler.
- 15. Twin head-phone socket
I first noticed someone using one of these on a 10 hour bus journey through Laos and I immediately thought what a cool idea. If you are traveling with someone either with one MP3 player, or 2 but one runs out of batteries, this small and very cheap widget will come in handy!
- 16. Stormlite Soft fibre Towel
These towels are very light weight witch means there well worth adding into the back-pack for when you come across a hotel that provides towels that either smell, or you can still see shit marks on them (yes, it’s happened to me a few times!)
- 17. Condoms
Okay, this might not be an ideal mother to son christmas pressie but it makes a good friend to friend one. Seriously, everyone knows people get freaky while on holiday and in some countries, it may be hard to find the right protection.
- 18. Small Maglite Torch
Less than an ounce and three inches in length, the Solitaire offers the same precision engineering found in every Mag-Lite.
- 19. Tuscan Wrap Journal
A journal is ideal for someone that isn’t to keen on learning how to use a blog to keep notes of their traveling adventures. Kiki James small Tuscan wrap journal is an artistic take on the traditional journal. Handmade in the UK from the finest Italian bridle leather.
- 20. Space Ticket
Maybe, just maybe, someone is reading this that wants to buy the ultimate travelers dream (well, mine anyway!)… A space flight! Virgin Galactic are now taking reservations for their 2009 flights.
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Wow, I didn’t realise it would take me 4 hours pulling this list together when I first started 
Anyone else got some suggestions?
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