LilaBear
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
One day this will reappear as a "Places I've been" thread.
I am planning a Round the World trip and am feeling overwhelmed. I can travel for up to 9 months and I know that I want to include Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Hong Kong. I will not be including Central and Western Europe as I travelled there last summer. My trip will start in April and end in December of this year. I'll be backpacking and doing it on the cheap (gotta save some $$ for skiing in 2011 right?).
On these RTW trips the air ticket will permit you up to 16 segments, you don't have to literally fly "around" the world on all of them, but you do have a option to make multiple one-way flights.
So I am tempted also by Hawaii, Micronesia, the Trans Siberia railway, Dude ranching in South America ........ yes, every other place the guidebooks fall open at.
I'm looking for recommendations on when is a good time to visit places (climate wise) so that I can get the itinerary in the right order, and where you have been that is maybe less well known but worth the visit. Also there are many trips and tours out there, which ones are truly worth the money as opposed to arranging it alone, or skipping the experience, e.g. best way to see Ha Long Bay, or the Great Barrier Reef (I'm a qualified experienced diver). Knowledge of ease of overland travel between two destinations. The advisability of visiting Tibet or Myanmar.
Very wide specs I know, but will be interesting to see what travel experiences you have had, or perhaps local knowledge.
If anyone has backpacking tips - please pass them on. I'm thinking of getting one that has wheels and shoulder straps for maximum flexibility. What should I pack in it? How much technology? What shoes? etc. etc. typical girls dilemma, I want it all but I do not want to carry it.
I am planning a Round the World trip and am feeling overwhelmed. I can travel for up to 9 months and I know that I want to include Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Hong Kong. I will not be including Central and Western Europe as I travelled there last summer. My trip will start in April and end in December of this year. I'll be backpacking and doing it on the cheap (gotta save some $$ for skiing in 2011 right?).
On these RTW trips the air ticket will permit you up to 16 segments, you don't have to literally fly "around" the world on all of them, but you do have a option to make multiple one-way flights.
So I am tempted also by Hawaii, Micronesia, the Trans Siberia railway, Dude ranching in South America ........ yes, every other place the guidebooks fall open at.
I'm looking for recommendations on when is a good time to visit places (climate wise) so that I can get the itinerary in the right order, and where you have been that is maybe less well known but worth the visit. Also there are many trips and tours out there, which ones are truly worth the money as opposed to arranging it alone, or skipping the experience, e.g. best way to see Ha Long Bay, or the Great Barrier Reef (I'm a qualified experienced diver). Knowledge of ease of overland travel between two destinations. The advisability of visiting Tibet or Myanmar.
Very wide specs I know, but will be interesting to see what travel experiences you have had, or perhaps local knowledge.
If anyone has backpacking tips - please pass them on. I'm thinking of getting one that has wheels and shoulder straps for maximum flexibility. What should I pack in it? How much technology? What shoes? etc. etc. typical girls dilemma, I want it all but I do not want to carry it.