Check out /r/ultralight. For summer travel, it's gonna be ~50F and wet/rainy/windy. Bring a good tent, with lots of guy lines (I used around 12 guy lines). Make sure your tent stakes are not round sticks, I'm talking about these because the ground will be wet and it will be windy. There is a camping store in Bodo so if you forget you will be fine. Other than that, standard ultralight camp gear should work fine.
I highly encourage you to save up for a car rental there (60-80$ a day), because you never know how bad the weather will be. The weather there can get nasty when it starts to rain. I also recommend going with at least one other person because hiking the mountains can get dangerous (one fall = death on certain parts of trail).
For clothes, I just went with a pair of pants, sneakers, two pairs of socks. You will get wet and dirty hiking anywhere there because its pretty much a jungle so you can't really avoid it.
Yeah, I love this tent, too. This was in Texas where the ground was hard.
These groundhogs are highly recommended by many people. I just saw someone recommend these instead, which seem like the same thing for less than half the price. I'm probably buying one or the other.
Thanks! I wasn't really totally prepared to start buying stuff when I got it, but it seemed like a good deal and figured at worst I could try to resell it for around what I paid for it.
I pitched it last week and it's missing the fly pole for the vestibule area, but that can be replaced for $7. Other than that from what I can tell it's in pretty good shape.
Trying to figure out what I need to do to it before heading out. It's got all the stakes, but I'm wondering if I should upgrade to something like this? It has all the guylines as well but also wondering if I should upgrade those as well to something like this and these. I guess it couldn't hurt to have an extra frame pole around for $10. The tent has a specially made floor liner I may pick up for $30. I'm going to need a ground tarp, regardless of an inside liner, and those can be had much cheaper. Would there be any reason to not just get cheaper tarp for both the ground and inside? Like would the material have any effect on condensation or moisture?
The tent also came with repair patches and sealer. I will probably pitch it again and redo the sealing when I get the fly pole and new guylines and this seems like it would be handy to have around for jackets and sleeping bags in addition to the tent.