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Foam earplugs — Teahouse walls are plywood and someone always snores
Best sleep aid

Teahouse walls are plywood and someone always snores

Foam earplugs

NRR 32-33 dB, disposable

The cheapest thing in this entire catalogue and one of the three most useful — the trade is that you will not hear your alarm, so keep a watch on your wrist with vibration on.

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What you get

  • Turns a plywood-walled lodge into somewhere you can sleep
  • Costs almost nothing; take a dozen pairs
  • Also good for the flight and the bus to Pokhara

What it costs you

  • You will sleep through an alarm
  • Uncomfortable if you sleep on your side
  • Easily lost in a sleeping bag

Do not buy this if: Nobody. Take them.

The alternatives

Everything else we recommend in earbuds & audio, including the ones we think suit a different trekker.