I feel like when people travel, they spend too much time taking photos, with the exception being people/professionals who travel to places for the sole purpose of taking photos. Taking a good picture with my 5DMkIII is not much different from taking a good picture with my LX7 in terms of everything except quality (quality aren't far off either when you are putting them on a computer screen without zooming in). I think photography should be a minor supplement to the experience of where you're traveling to rather than a big component that takes a significant amount of time and makes traveling companions hate you for wanting to stop every five steps. Unless your next paycheck depends pictures or unless you're going to be making 60x40 prints of your pictures, there's no need to haul around a brick of a camera around. Just my humble opinion.