Which route – Choices, Choices

Having been on two around the world trips I often reminisce on our amazing experiences. However now that we have experienced even more of the world, we often debate if ask we could we have done better routes? Included more? seen different things?

Route One

• London – Shanghai, China Exploration
• HK – Hanoi, Vietnam Exploration
• Ho Chi Minh City – Bangkok (A few nights in Bangkok)
• Bangkok – Singapore (A few nights in Singapore)
• Singapore – Sydney (A year in Australia)
• Sydney – Auckland (A few months touring New Zealand)
• Auckland to Nadi (A few weeks touring the Fijian islands)
• Nadi – Los Angeles (Drive to Vancouver)
• Vancouver – Toronto
• Toronto – New York City (Greyhound Bus)
• New York – Dublin
• Dublin – London

Route Two

• London – Cape Town (Southern African Tour including Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, & Zimbabwe)
• Johannesburg – London
• London – New York
• New York to Canada (A year living in Canada and touring the country)
• Vancouver – LA (car journey adventure in Mid West)
• LA – Cancun (Central American discovery tour Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama)
• Panama City – Los Angeles
• Los Angeles – Tahiti (Exploration of the French Polynesian Islands)
• Tahiti – Auckland (3 weeks in New Zealand)
• Auckland – Sydney
• Sydney – Hobart (Exploration of Tasmania)
• Hobart – Cairns (10 days exploring the north-east of Australia inc Cape Tribulation & Port Douglas)
• Cairns to Tokyo (3 weeks exploring Japan by Rail)
• Tokyo – London

Just listing them really reminds us how many incredible experiences we had. Seeing the world like this is by far the best option when travelling. However some of the schedules were quite rigid due to flight parameters and took a lot of pre-planning. What we discovered on our second trip was that actually being a bit more flexible far increases the experience.

Dream List

• London – Nairobi (Kenya and travel overland to South Africa through Tasmania, Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa)
• Cape Town – Antananarivo (Madagascar to see the Lemurs)
• Antananarivo – Reunion
• Reunion – Maldives
• Maldives – Sri Lanka
• Sri Lanka – Kathmandu (overland through Nepal, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia)
• Bali – Perth (West Coast trip to Broome)
• Broome – Sydney
• Sydney – Port Villa (Exploration of Vanuatu)
• Port Villa – Nadi (exploration of Fiji)
• Nadi – Avarua (Exploration of Cook Islands)
• Avarua – Papeete (Exploration of French Polynesia)
• Papeete – Easter Island
• Easter Island to Santiago (overland through Chile, Argentina and Brazil)
• (excursion to Antarctica)
• Rio de Janario – London

The list revolves around Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands and South America, mainly as we know that they bring about the best of our Wandering Memories and also harness our desires to explore. As you can see from our dream list there is a collection of new locations but also some revisits also. It is true that some places are just too special to be visited just once and we would not hesitate to experience them again.

We are pretty sure that no round the round the world flight package would include all of these options but the trip itself is very feasible (due to proximity of the countries and routes).

On any realistic round the world tour we would recommend you include

• At least one pacific island (not Hawaii) 
• Lesser traveled Asia (such as Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar or Indonesia)
• A big draw – China for the Great wall or an African safari or even a trip to Antarctica
• Include an experience you would not usually think of – Skiing, Bungee jumping, parachuting, trekking, diving or camping as suggestions

Don’t follow the crowd and just do Thailand, Australia and the USA, unleash your inner adventurer – Chose somewhere you will remember forever – after all that’s what it is all about…