My wife and I are in our early 30's and are planning to have kids soon. We'd like to go on one last big trip, well not that big we only have 5-6 weeks. Previously we spent a couple of months in Southeast Asia, we spent 8 months travelling through Western/Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Middle East (Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Israel), and spent six weeks in China and Tibet last year. There's an awful lot left to see and do :) Basically we figure we've got time for one last trip before we (hopefully) have kids, somewhere that requires a lot of time as we probably won't have an abundance of free time once we have kids, and somewhere that is somewhat challenging to travel in, somewhere we wouldn't want to go with a baby, or toddler, or young children. Somewhere that if we don't go now, it'll be a hell of a long time before we have the chance again :)
Two big places that have always been on our list have been East & South Africa or India & Nepal. Both require 4-6 weeks at a minimum and that can't be easy with young kids. In my mind Africa was this place that was very difficult to travel but I've been researching but countries like Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania seem like they would be fairly easy to travel (especially the national parks) and South Africa seems to be quite modern and European where we can just rent a car for 2-3 weeks and drive from Jo'burg to Cape Town. Then again 8 days of safari in a 4x4 and a couple weeks driving around South Africa might not be such a great idea a baby, toddler, or young child :) And there's obviously the issue of vaccines and malaria in eastern africa, and crime in south africa. India on the other hand still seems quite challenging, and there's the high risk of food born illness, and obviously trekking in Nepal for 10 days and hiking at altitude is not something that one can do with toddlers or young children..
Anyone have any thoughts, experiences, or guidance for us? :)
