Take as little as possible (Score 1)

Leave everything but the camera at home. Then you'll hear the local music instead of the same old tunes, see the places you visit instead of a Mac screen, and meet actual people instead of wasting your time on gadgets. When your camera fills up you can find cyber-cafes to burn CDs and mail them home. As a bonus, without all that stuff you won't have to worry about it being stolen or carry the weight around.

Best of all, after you force yourself to do without things you'll discover in a couple months how much your stuff owns you instead of the other way around, and if you listen to yourself then you'll be free of the consumer game forever.

I spent years travelling the world (http://www.bougerolle.net/travel/) and that's one big lesson I learned from all of it - the less stuff you have the happier you are.