Final check: how crazy are we?

Hi TT-ers,

Okay, so four years ago we set a dot on the horizon. Halfway 2012 till halfway 2013 we'd leave for a year. For a taste of a few countries. The wish list was long, the encounters with ourselves on our destinations as well. We have a very expensive taste as we found out, but went for it anyway.

Ground rules:

• Backpacking, but no compromises besides that.
• We do not like to be long in ons place and we do not mind gaping some distance.
• No detailed itineraries per country. We'll see as we go along. Few highlights, that's it.
• No extensive bucketlist.

• St Petersburg - Bejing. Trans Mongolion expres + 9 days Mongolia (3 weeks)
• Bejing: one and a halve weeks.
• Japan (...

Traveling to South east Asia for 10 weeks

Hi, myself and my boyfriend ate heading to South East Asis in August for ten weeks starting off in HongKong. We plan on spending a day or two in Macau and then heading over to Bangkok to travel through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and maybe one other place before we head to Australia. I would be very grateful If anyone could give me some tips on areas we should definitely visit and what's the best route we should take? :)

rtw itinerary

Hi,
I am planning to go on a rtw trip, please advise if the following route looks ok(Weather and time for each country)
China-Middle of September-Middle of October-One month
Japan-End of October-One week
Australia-November and the beginning of December-One and a half month
New Zealand-Middle of December and January-One and a half month
Chile and Argentina-End of January until mid March-Almost two months
Brazil-Mid march until mid April-One month
Bolivia-Mid April until the end of May-One and a half month.
Peru-June-One a half month
Colombia-August-One month

I plan to go overland between most countries in South America

I am not sure about the correct route in Australia as I read that the weather is bad in northern australia during november.

Please also advise if you have ideas for other interesting places to go during the trip.

Thanks,
Bar more »

Nelly's trip around the world

Hi everybody!

I'm a 26 year old student from Holland and I'm planning a trip around the world (well, in fact I'm not really going around it... :P ). I've checked this forum for many many times already (thanks everyone!!) and I've come to first a plan for my trip. Maybe you can have a look at it and tell me what you think? I'm not going to cross a lot of countries this way, but that's not what I think that travelling is about anyway...

I'm not sure about all the budgets, It's suppose to be between the high end of low-budget and the low end of midrange-budget... So I hope to get just a bit of comfort, but I don't need much more: I'm happy with an avarage room and a shower I can use that I dare to enter wearing flip-flops ;). Of course I like doing special things, but I won't need to go skydiving and swimming with sharks every week either.

I think the planning allows me to s... more »

Last minute doubts & reservations

Hey all,

So- I have been (roughly) planning a fairly big trip. Planning has mainly involved getting everything together and quitting my job. But I now find myself at the last hurdle, pretty much ready to leave...

...and I'm caught stuck-in-the-mud wondering whether

a) I've actually 'planned' enough of the trip itself

b) whether I should have got a round-the-world ticket, rather than proceed as I had thought (unplanned)

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I have been checking flights and rough dates of when-and-where I think I'll be in certain locations, and much of it seems okay unplanned. But now I've realised how much cheaper it would be if I had some flights on a RTW ticket.

Is it worth re-thinking about RTW tickets, and getting one of these, or should I just take the plunge and GET ON THE ROAD asap?

I just can't decide... :(

-Snuf more »

Interrailing in Europe 2nd - 27th of July

Got a problem and would love if someone out there could help me out.
I'm about to travel from Portugal through Spain, France, northern Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria and Germany. The route seems realistic, but there's one spot on the way that is slightly problematic.
One of my greater goals of the entire trip is to visit Bovec in Slovenia and a friend of mine working in Pula, northern Croatia. As I understand Trieste in far-East Italy would suit perfectly as my "outpost". But with this in mind I need to sort out how to get get from Trieste to both Pula and Bovec. Heard of a town in western Slovenia called Nova Gorica that would be reachable from Trieste without any complicated combinations of trains busses etc.

As you can see I would love some info regarding traveling in Slovenia and northern Croatia. Thanks alot!

6 Month Itinerary Advice (April - Oct 2013)

Hello All,

My boyfriend and I are planning a six month trip beginning next April 2013. Here is a vague idea of what we are thinking at the beginning stages of our planning:

April 5 - Leave NYC for San Francisco, CA (10 days)
April 15 - Leave CA for Sydney, Australia
Travel to Cairns, Darwin (ideally with one flight and partially in a camper van - any thoughts?) - (3 weeks total in Australia)
May 7 - Leave Darwin for Bali, Indonesia (2 weeks)
May 21 - Leave Indonesia for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (could go right to Thailand if it becomes too much) (2 weeks)
June 7 - Leave Malaysia for Bangkok, Thailand (5 weeks for Thailand & Laos)
Luang Prabang, Laos
July 15 - Leave SE Asia for Rome - There do not seem to be direct flights - we are thinking of leaving a week or so early and making a stop in Israel or Turkey (any suggestions would be grea... more »

RTW trip, looking for Thai beach style vibe...

I spent a year in Thailand in 2003-4 and loved the laid-back vibe in the quieter resorts such as Koh Chang, Koh Tao and Thong Nai Pan.

Redundancy looms, so I have a six month trip planned with my gf and am looking for destinations with a similar vibe, i.e. banana pancakes on the beach, wooden huts with cold showers and hammocks, local hallucinogenic mushrooms, chilled bars in the jungle etc... Oh, and as cheap a lifestyle as possible - accom/food/alcohol was around £10 per day in 2003 staying in basic beach huts and avoiding western brands etc. Old ruins, scuba diving, white water rafting etc would be a bonus but mostly we're looking for places my gf and I can live a basic lifestyle for a while, and maybe learn the local language and write a book... Take morning swims, play lots of chess, eat lots of fruit and get lots of sleep.

Budget is £10k total so maybe a thousand a month ... more »