Every site feels the need to create this lists of "essential" things. "World's 10 best bars" or "8 beaches you can't miss", but in actuality there's only 1 or 2 on the list worth talking about. This site has a couple worth adopting for sure, especially bringing a cassette mix tape:

"Instead, try traveling with one or two classic cassette mix-tapes. When you tire of the cab’s selection of “the coolest American music,” or a jeep driver’s library of Mongolian throat singing tapes, offer the driver one of your own."