What is a travel around the world trip, and what are the best routes?

What is a travel around the world trip?

  • A travel around the world trip is a journey with multiple destinations on multiple continents. You travel alone, or with your travel partners, from country to country and continent to continent. A classic world trip calls at every continent or passes through at least every meridian.
  • A world trip can be made by any means of transportation and can be short or long in duration.

What is a long trip abroad?

  • Generally speaking, a long trip is a trip starting at about three months, with some travelers traveling for six months, a year or even several years.

How long does travel around the world take?

  • Do you need a year or is a month or four enough? A question that for most travelers is largely determined by employer, school, university, etc. What also comes into play for them is how long you need for a particular region or country.
  • Of course, it also depends on your itinerary and budget. In practice, almost no one manages to make a real world trip in one year. Often entire continents have to be skipped in order not to run out of time or money.
  • Anyone who wants to make a trip from Australia through Southeast Asia to India and/or China can basically do it in three to five months. You will then be in a country almost as long as most other world travelers who also have other continents on their schedule.
  • When you skip expensive countries like Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and some South American countries, it's a lot more financially attractive to go for a year instead of a few months. After all, your biggest expense, the flight, is already done by then.
  • The advantage of going away for a year is that you can totally flip your travel itineraries and stay in one place for a long time more easily without throwing your schedules into too much disarray.
  • If you go away for about three months, then a number of other advantages come around the corner, tickets are often cheaper, you have easily saved your travel budget together and with work and studies, it is sometimes just manageable.
  • can cost money and take a long time.
    From Nepal you can both enter China (Tibet), and fly to Bangkok (Thailand): so you can always adjust your trip from Kathmandu.
    Obviously, everyone wants to avoid as much as possible having to travel back pieces to continue the route from a point where you have already been. If this starting point turns out to cost you a lot of money (sometimes the case) try to plan it so that on the return trip you can still travel through a new part of a country or region.
    Building Transsiberia Express in is often easier (in terms of visas) and more convenient at the beginning of your trip.
    In general; the more you book in advance, the more expensive it becomes. Students and travelers who travel around during the off-season can often enjoy cheap deals. Just be aware that pre-booked tickets are sometimes valid for a maximum of 6 months or still need to be arranged with additional single tickets locally. In the latter case, of course, you do take the risk that prices may change in the meantime.
  • Building in from Latin America to Australia/New Zealand or vice versa can make the trip firmly more expensive.
    Flying from Latin America to Africa or vice versa can also make the trip a lot more expensive. Airport taxes make the total price quite a bit more expensive.
    Overland connections are in principle not part of world tickets, but are included in tickets where the fare depends on the number of miles.

What are favorite destinations during a world trip or long journey of 3 to 4 months?

  • Tip: Hippie route (overland to India) - Pan-American highway: Mexico to Panama - round-the-Middle East - simple 'Round-the-World'.
  • Top: Round Southeast Asia - South and East Africa or Madagascar - India, Nepal and Tibet, Trans-Siberia and China - round the Andes (Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador)

What are favorite destinations during a world trip or long journey of 6 to 8 months?

  • Tip: Gringo Trail in South America, hippie route with Southeast Asia included - an average 'Round-the-World'
  • Top: Round Southeast Asia with India / China / Myanmar (Burma) - Madagascar and Southeast Africa- Trans-Siberia + China and Southeast Asia

What are favorite destinations during a world trip or long journey of 9 to 12 months around the world?

  • Tip: Trans-Siberia / China / Southeast Asia / Australia - the Silk Road
  • Top: Round Southeast Asia - India and or China and Australia and/or New Zealand - Africa overland - Tip: hippie route with Southeast Asia and Australia - an extensive 'Round-the-World'
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