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08-Feb-2010 16:13
gbloom
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08-Feb-2010 21:23
paudeviatge
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My husband and I are going on a RTW trip starting this July (2010). We are leaving from North America where we currently live. All we know is that we are definitely not going to Europe on this trip (too expensive) or the Middle East (already spent time there), and that we need to be in Australia to visit my husband's family at the end of August. We were thinking the following:
Chicago--Lima. July-August (6-7 weeks). Travel around Peru and Bolivia
Lima-LA-Sydney. In Sydney and Melbourne for 4 weeks staying/visiting family
Melbourne--Bangkok. End of September
Travel for 2.5 months from Thailand-Laos-Vietnam-China, and then back to Bangkok to meet family for a trip to Borneo for two weeks in December.
Bangkok-Borneo-Bangkok. 2 weeks.
Bangkok--Delhi. Jan--Mid-April (3.5 months, maybe volunteer for some of this time)
Nepal- 3-4 weeks for trekking
Make our way back down t...
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08-Feb-2010 15:41
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10-Feb-2010 03:05
sojourner46
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Hi there,
my boyfriend and I (both Australian) are heading off on a 10 month RTW trip, beginning with 4 months in South and Central America. After reading through the advice on here we have decided to rely mostly on our debit and credit cards, however we are also going to take some US dollars in case of emergency. I was just wondering if anyone has any advice on how much we should exchange before we go. I know this is quite a broad question but this is our first real trip and was just after a general range. I was thinking about US$500 between us? Or am I way off?
Also, if it helps we are flying into Buenos Aires, and then don't really have any plans after that.
Thanks in advance,
Jess
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hi everyone,
i live in chiang mai, thailand with my girlfriend. she is thai and i am american. we are both 27 years old. anyways, we are getting bored. she works as a tour guide at the royal palace and i am an exporter of silk. we are planning on a trip around the world for as long as we can. i have about $10K USD saved up and she has maybe a few hundred USD! i have traveled around SEA extensively so i know the general costs associated with this part of the world.
my question is this: i have two semi-professional cameras. one canon 40D and one canon 7D with good, quality lenses. the pictures that our cameras take are phenomenal. my plan is to try to sell our photographs on the internet as well as keep a blog. we are going to travel as long as we can on the money that we make from our photographs. has anyone done this before or thought of it? our monthly budget fo...
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Just wondering what other peoples "Money to go back to" level is, i'm about half way through a 7 month trip and feel like i could go on for ever and i'm tempted to dip into the "Back home Money Fund"
I was thinking about going back to about 5 grand(5000 pounds stirling) I dont have a job to go back to but i've paid off my mortgage .
I know its a "How long is a piece of string question" but i was just wondering what other peoples perspective is.
Hiya,
I'm just wondering whether i need a 48 page passport or whether my standard UK one will be enough?
We will be visiting:
Egypt
Kenya
Uganda
Tanzania
Malawi
Zambia
Botswana
Namibia
South Africa
China
Japan
Ecuador (possible)
Peru
Bolivia
Chile (possible)
Argentina (possible)
Brazil
California
Australia
New Zealand
Thanks for viewing! :-)
Hi guys,
I'm doing a trip to the following locations:
Hi
Next year I will be traveling around the world for about 8 months.... Starting in SE Asia - India/Nepal - Dubai - Egypt - Europe - South America - Back to the USA.
The part I trying hard to find was the Europe to South America Portion... I found a ticket on Condor Air from Frankfurt to Salvador, Brazil for $500 USD!
Also I found that the RTW tickets were not worth it... They quoted me at $5000 USD... Here are my costs. $2661... Obviously with some trains/buses in between.
From: To: $ USD Company
Seattle Bangkok $750 Eva
Kuala Lumpur Kolkatta $108 Air Asia
Dehli Katmandu $121 Jet Air
Katmandu Sharjar $256 Air Arabia
Dubai Cairo $154 Kuwait Air
Cairo Istanbul $238 Egypt Air
Bucharest Barcelona $45 Wizz Air
Barcelona Frankfurt $20 Ryan Air
Frankfurt Salvador $500 Condor Air
Lima ...
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Has anyone done the STA Travel TEFL course and job placement to teach english in thailand? I'm possibly looking into doing it through STA Travel and just want to know if anyone's done it before.
If you have any info about this please let PM me!
Cheers
Lucy
05-Feb-2010 02:18
dne202
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05-Feb-2010 05:24
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Not even considering price for a minute, I wanted to know if it's feasible to book a flight back home during one's travels on the RTW fare. I would book that flight OUTSIDE of my RTW itinerary. So, as far as they know, I didn't change my itinerary. I'm just asking because I've got a wedding I can't miss and I don't know if the airlines have some sort of way of knowing that I broke the code.
If it's feasible, then I'll probably start investigating if it makes sense financially.
Hello
I am thinking on taking a few months off and travel somewhere, but don't know where. I was thinking NZ & Australia but I am afraid it would be a bit too expensive. I've been to China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand so if I were to go to SE Asia, I wouldn't wanna go back to either one of those 4 countries. I was also thinking on Argentina & Brazil, but I am not sure about the money issue, is Argentina expensive considering I want to go to Patagonia etc, is it possible to go solo to the south and be able to enjoy or are most things done with organized groups?
Any recommendations on where to go would be awesome!
Let me know where you guys went!
Thank you
Berta
04-Feb-2010 05:46
wolverine45
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07-Feb-2010 05:57
wolverine45
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Hi,
I am planning to go to the above areas for a minimum of 6 months, but hopefully longer. I'm too old to get a 1 year working holiday visa for Australia!!, but would like to travel around with a flexible itinerary. What would be the best approach? Buy a RTW ticket (just got a quote for £3K) or get a return ticket to Australia, ditch the return and then travel on from Australia to the other countries I want to see? I may also jump on as yacht crew or do cargo travel. Most of all I want the flexibility not to be tied to an itinerary.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
04-Feb-2010 04:05
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04-Feb-2010 22:32
jmcsargent
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Hi guys,
I apologize in advance for yet another itinerary query, but any advice/ opinions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for even reading this!
I have set aside three months, from June through to the end of August to travel. Originally I had planned to travel around South East Asia for a couple of months, popping over to Australia and/or New Zealand for just under a month, then home via America, possibly a week in New York.
The above, I assumed, would cost me quite a lot in terms of money for a RTW ticket. The catch is whether anyone believes staying in the South East Asia area would be a better bet than travelling to all the other various places within the same time frame. I am happy to stay the three months in S.E Asia, but have always wanted to see Australia and New Zealand and cannot for the foreseeable future see myself getting out there unless I go now.
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Many thanks,
Tim
This isn't really a RTW question, but more a request for advice/suggestions on where I may like to go next.
BF and I went to Thailand last Feb/March for three weeks. He only gets three weeks vacation a year so that's all we can take.
We are ready to start planning for this year's trip. I'm leaning towards April/May. We usually like to go in Feb/March but since we bought a new house that closed in Nov 09, Feb/March wasn't feasible yet for us.
I'd rather pick April/May than June/July/August bc the latter three months are the only warm ones in Canada :)
Anyway, I'm looking for advice from more seasoned travellers on where I should consider next, based on the following:
-can go in April/May
-three weeks to travel
-budget travel perferred (i.e. ~up to $20US/nite for sleeping in a hostel/guesthouse, ~$7US/day for food (each))
-must be somewhere warm/hot where we can visit ...
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I live in the US and am planning a trip to Europe this spring. I will be arriving in Greece sometime around the end of June, then backpacking around as much of Europe as possible for the summer. As I don't know when or from where I'll be flying back home, I figured I'd just by a one-way ticket to Greece, then buy another one-way ticket home from where-ever I will be at that time. Some have told me that I likely would not be allowed into the country without a return flight ticket. However, I have also heard from different sources that that is not correct. I've heard that as long as I can prove that I have enough funds for the duration of my stay in the country, that I'll have no problem. (I know there are ways around it, such as flying "open jaws" (too expensive) or buying an onward ticket to a nearby country and then cancelling it for a refund later on, etc., but these all seem to be... more »
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