New to travelling!!!!!

Hi...

We did pretty much the same route as you 2007-2008. We bought a round the world ticket. But only for some of it..

Our RTW ticket was London -> Madrid (layover) -> Lima

Overland to Santiago, two months, all by ourselves, easy peasy and didn't feel in any danger whatsoever so don't pay any attention to them suggesting taking a group trip unless that's what you want to do.

Then Santiago -> Auckland (five weeks in NZ) -> Melbourne -> Perth

Overland to Sydney 3 months, bought a campervan.... Our initial RTW ticket had us going to Darwin but we changed it to go from Sydney at a Qantas office in Darwin for £50 each.

Sydney -> Bali

Overland to Mumbai. We then spent 6 months in Asia. Most of it in SE Asia, then finishing in India for 7 weeks.

Mumbai -> London

Hope this makes sense...

Essentially our RTW ticket when we initially bought it was

London -> Madrid (layover) -> Lima... Made our own way to:
Santiago -> Auckland -> Melbourne (Layover) -> Perth ... Made our own way to:
Darwin (later changed to Sydney) -> Bali ... Made our own way to:
Mumbai -> London

And it cost us about £1200 from memory, although I know that isn't realistic at all today... what with the rising costs of Airfares..

All the in between bits we figured out for ourselves using buses, trains, and budget airlines.

Personally I think it's worthwhile getting a RTW for the big flights... these cost a lot of money separately.

Have fun planning... it's all part of the fun.

Mike
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Thanks mike that was really helpful. the route that we kinda have planned in our head is
London-> Madrid-> Rio-> overland through Argentina, Bolivia then Peru-> Christchurch -> overland to Aukland-> Melbourne -> overland to sydney-> Singapore -> overland to Bangkok-> Delhi -> overland to Nepal.

Thats the basic route i have in my head so i'll pice up a rtw ticket based on that. In south east asia we were looking at booking some cheap flights to malaysia, indonesia and the phillipines.

Do you think a budget of £10,000 each is realistic?
We're looking at 3month south america, 1month new zealand, 1 month australia, 6 month south east asia then a month or so in india and nepal.
To be honest i don't want to plan too much before we go as i'm pretty terrible at organising.
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£10,000 each! My goodness, you will have a ball on that amount of cash!

The competition between airlines these days has become so cutthroat that I do believe it has never been cheaper to fly.

Wherever you go you will find budget airlines to suit your needs and your pockets.

In Asia, Air Asia has the largest network and covers destinations as far afield as New Zealand, Japan, India and China from their hub in Kuala Lumpur.

In the US, Southwest and JetBlue both cover most of North America.

In South America budget airlines haven't really taken off, generally I believe, due to safety issues, however Peru and Brazil have a few airlines with good safety records, these being Star Peru and Azul Brazilian, both who fly modern, western aircraft.

In Australia and New Zealand you have Jetstar which is part of the Qantas group and of course in Europe, my favourite airline, Ryanair.

As for accommodation, almost every country will offer you rooms to suit your pocket. In Asia, you will find clean, fresh and decent rooms for $20 a night, there are of course cheaper rooms if you don't mind the bedbugs and the cockroaches otherwise, in the other direction, the sky's the limit. Reply to this