Nothing compares to the feeling of happiness and excitement when a short or long vacation lies ahead of you. You look forward to unwinding, discovering unknown regions and immersing yourself in foreign cultures. Simply wonderful!
Of course, you need to decide in advance what you need to take with you on your vacation trip – and what to pack it in. If you’re the type of person who prefers to shoulder their luggage because it’s the easiest way to transport it, a large travel backpack is your ideal companion. For short breaks, choose a hand luggage backpack that you can take into the cabin when traveling by plane, and for your backpacking trip, we recommend a trekking backpack. Tatonka also offers travel backpacks for women and travel backpacks for men.
A large travel backpack is characterized by a relatively wide and stable shape and a relatively large capacity, as it is intended to hold your luggage for a longer period of time. Experience has shown that a 60-liter travel backpack or a 70-liter travel backpack offers more than enough space for your vacation essentials. Apart from the capacity, the features of your travel backpack are an important factor: it has a large opening for easy packing, compression straps on the inside to secure your luggage and pockets to keep things organized. The Great Escape travel backpacks from Tatonka also offer a particularly practical detail: a daypack with a volume of 15 liters is attached to the front – so you don’t have to carry another “small” piece of luggage.
The Great Escape travel backpacks from Tatonka are equipped with the adjustable Frame Comfort Light carrying system, which you can adjust to your own back length to relieve the strain on your spine and ensure back-friendly carrying. In addition to a unisex travel backpack or travel backpack for men, Tatonka also offers a travel backpack for women, in which the carrying system is adapted to the female physique. It is also important that you can cover the carrying system so that you can easily check the backpack in as flight luggage.
A travel backpack for hand luggage with a volume of 25-40 liters is ideal for luggage on a short trip. Thanks to its hand luggage dimensions, you can simply check in when traveling by plane and take the backpack with you into the cabin.
Compact, rectangular shapes, a large opening and practical compartments characterize Tatonka’s hand luggage backpacks, for example the Traveller Pack 35 or the Flightcase 40. They also have a separate laptop compartment that can be accessed from the outside. Most models also have removable or coverable shoulder straps so that nothing can get caught in the luggage rack on the train or plane.
Find out all about sizes and permitted contents for air travel in our hand luggage guide.
On a backpacking trip, all your belongings are in your backpack, which you carry from country to country and often over longer distances. That’s why you shouldn’t make any compromises when choosing your backpack and select a trekking backpack with a high-performance carrying system.
Our Yukon trekking backpacks, which are designed for a pack weight of up to 25 kilograms and play in the top league in terms of carrying comfort, have proven themselves many times over. They are equipped with the V2 carrying system, which is constructed using a combination of aluminum and GRP rods to ensure an excellent ratio of efficiency and flexibility in load transfer. The concave back padding ensures optimum contact with the rucksack and offers good ventilation thanks to the materials used. Multi-layer padded hip fins reinforced with a PE plate are three-dimensionally shaped and adapt to the contours of the hips. The Yukon models with a volume of 50 – 70 liters are also available as special women’s backpacks.
Our Noras models with the Y1 carrying system are also a very good choice for backpackers. They are designed for a load of up to 20 kilograms, and the comfortable carrying system can also be adjusted to your back length for back-friendly carrying. The stable construction with ergonomic back padding and three-part hip belt offers good load distribution and comfortable carrying.
The Noras 55+10 Women has a generous volume of 55 liters, the Noras 65+10 a generous 65 liters.
All trekking backpacks offer a practical division into base, main and lid compartments so that your luggage doesn’t turn into chaos in no time at all. You can also open the main compartment from the front – ideal for quickly accessing the items you need. There are also various outer pockets. The side compression straps allow you to secure the contents of the backpack or make it smaller and more compact. This brings the weight of the backpack as close to your back as possible and makes it more comfortable to carry. And since the sun doesn’t always shine during long trips, a rain cover is also part of every trekking backpack’s equipment.
You don’t need too much luggage for an Interrail tour, and you want to be able to stow it in the luggage rack on the train as easily as possible. Touring backpacks with their relatively slim shape and a volume of 40 – 45 liters are a very good choice for this type of travel. An efficient carrying system also ensures that touring backpacks are comfortable to carry and easy on the back.
The touring backpacks from Tatonka are equipped with the lightweight Frame Comfort carrying system, which you can adjust to your own back length to transfer part of the load from the shoulders to the pelvic area and thus achieve an even weight distribution. The chest strap stabilizes the carrying system and improves freedom of movement, while the load control straps stabilize the backpack on your back. The carrying system of women’s touring backpacks is adapted to the female physique.
Like the trekking backpacks, Tatonka’s touring backpacks also offer an intelligent division into main, base and lid compartments and a large front opening into the main compartment. An elastic front pocket, elastic side pockets and zippered pockets on the hip belt stow items that you need to have to hand quickly, and the rain cover supplied protects the backpack and its contents in bad weather.
Even during bus trips, train journeys and flights, it can easily happen that your backpack gets caught somewhere or rubs against a rough surface. That’s why Tatonka travel backpacks can not only pack, but also take a beating. They are made from weather and abrasion-resistant materials to provide you with reliable and, above all, long-lasting support on your travels. Polyester and polyamide fabrics are used, which have a polyurethane coating on the inside to make them waterproof. The fabrics are also treated with a dirt and water-repellent impregnation that is PFC/PFAS-free.
Tatonka backpacks are produced fairly in our own SA8000-certified production facilities. You can also see the high social standards for yourself through our Open Factory program: every Friday you can visit our Mountech Co. Ltd. factory in Ho Chi Minh City during ongoing production.
Our supply chain is also transparent: with our online tool Traceability by Tatonka, you can track the path of your purchased Tatonka backpack from material purchase to delivery.
Whether you’re planning a three-day city trip, a three-week vacation or a three-month backpacking trip – you’ll find what you’re looking for at the backpack specialist Tatonka.
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