yeah well, first thing you do is watch the movie 'Hostel' with your fiance ... will fix everything.

xD

Blow your savings in a day and save time!

STA travel

goggle it

it's designed for university students by anyone can do it

they give you 28,000 miles or something over 10 or so stops during the year and also free stops, so say you went to Egypt you might to be able to fly to Kenya and back free of charge while in Egypt.

The tickets cost between £500-£1200 depending on what you do which is insanely cheap taking into account the air miles you get.

you can also select pre planned stuff

also, 15,000-20,000 is a lot of money, all depending on where you go

from the research I did (forums and asking others)

a lot were getting by on 3,000 - 5,000 a year usually with some work / a job in the final quater if needed

a lot of that depended on sleeping though, which is next to nothing in some parts of the world (camping as well obviously) but costly in others.

google backpacking and traveling,

tom might be able to help here though

buy 15k worth of lsd

nice trip indeed

tom did some stuff, NZ etc. might wanna talk with him about it

thank you for the information, NPC link

haha

If you go someplace where you need to spend a lot of money, you're not in the real world. The real world is poor.

The price for getting around by plane or train or whatever is the most variable shit ever - you can save like a mountain of money going to the right place at the right time.

Sounds like an awesome decision though! GLHF :D

Eish, how do students get so much cash? I'm working and after saving for 8 months I only have £4200. (And I live at home and don't pay rent.)

eish lulz

uh oh youre gonna do an astz

haha. but we're back together!

y

uh youve got so much money dont do any planning, just buy a plane ticket to your first destination and do whatever you feel like. christ

seconded - did this for 3 months in east asia, works fine

Never been travelling for that long, but I have done some longer trips and stay abroad in one place (school exchange, internships) too.

First of all one year is a very long time for just moving around. Have you ever spend more than two months with just her and no friends colleagues around? Cause if you haven't you should try that first.

That said you should look into finding some places where you'd like to stay for a longer time and maybe even work in a small job, helps with getting to know people.

In any case what I think you should get is this:

http://www.staralliance.com/en/travellers/far...e_faq.html

Probably other airlines have that, too. But Star Alliance flow almost anywhere.
Just read the faq, it's pretty self explainatory.


Places I would personally include, as in, I have visited or plan to visit (in no order):
USA, Caribbeans, Brazil, maybe Chile, New Zealand, Thailand,
Different European cities including Eastern Europe and Greek Mediterranean islands (actuall, either book a sailing trip there or in the Carribeans. It's awesome!),
Tunesia or Morocco, Japan, South Aftrica, maybe Himalaya, China, Phillipines or Indonesia, Australia.

That is all :)

lucky dude :)

i would definitely include canada, nz and a few months snowboarding somewhere...

all ive heard is good things about thee snow in NZ..

know two people had roughly had the same money they did a couple of months work in NZ if I remember correclty. They did everything, didn't hold back and they lasted 2 years.

NZ and AUS was expensive
Asia was dirt cheap
South America was cheap as well

hate to put a downer on things, but youll regret spending that much when you want to buy a house

...unless youre insanely rich, of course.. in which case can i come too? :<

welcome to boringsville

I bought a house in excitingville, it's much nicer here.

I've bought a house, well that is to say more accurately I've bought a mortgage and one regret is that I wish I had traveled while i was young and had the money.. houses can wait, traveling while trying to pay a mortgage is financially hard.

BOOH @ you!

ahahahaha

first stop - Las Vegas

take 5k with you and have an awesome time!

spend the rest on places like NZ, Au, Cali, Miami, Mexico, Fuji (spelling?) Bangkok(?!) etc!

You still live in Manchester? Come to Liverpool, capital of culture 2008, only 40 minutes on the train!

Don't do it! All your stuff will get nicked.

depends what you would like to see, rainforests? deserts? both etc.. um..personally

Machu Picchu, Peru

I want to travel around Europe because it has many contrasting cultures in a close environment..

A mate i work with drove around Australia with his girlfriend when he was 18, but the best part is he didnt have his drivers licence yet! ;D

Another guy i work with was backpacking through South America and was kidnapped and held for ransome, they thought he was a rich american but he was a poor australian.. haha anyway they eventually let him go unharmed, I asked him if he ever considered writing a book on his experience and he said "well i was keeping a travel diary at the time do you want to read it?" , of course i jumped at the chance and the next day he brings it in and its this tattered old exercise school book with dirt and peeling corners etc.. was very priveledged experience reading that. anywayz im rambling .

If you end up down under and like hiking try cradle mountain
or NZ is very scenic..
and has "the finest walk in the world". which is on my " to do " list.

this is very common to do for swedish youths i belive. i've done it myselfe. i saved about 5000 euros and went for a long trip in thailand. thailand and the countries around there is the most common vacationplace for swedes. i hooked up with a friend (from home) down in thailand, and we partied hard, lots of swimming. he went home after a month, so i was on my own. it was still lots of fun and i had many foreigner and thai friends. i went to northern thailand, no beaches there, but a lot of culture.. temples and stuff.
you should buy a one-way ticket to kuala lumpur, then travel up north... malaysia, thailand, cambodia, laos and perhaps china.
im already saving for my next trip, and i will travel in feb something :). i will go to south east asia again. it's cheap, nice people and nice climat.

have fun!

Make a list of places you'd want to see, pick a nice first destination, buy a plane ticket, bring enough clothes for a 10-11 days. Stay as long as you like there, travel around there, feel a need for something more, consult your list and then head on to next destination, wash, rinse, repeat. Don't bring more than you can carry on your back, buy new things over there when needed, don't bring anything too fancy or expensive along, so you can dump it if it doesn't prove very useful.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163978/

I hear Burma is exciting

travel through africa!

Afganistan would be an interesting place.

Watch globe trekker(pilot guided) and thirsty traveler.
They also have a nice guide here: http://www.pilotguides.com/destination_guide/

Personally I would visit the Caribbean Islands, Kenya, Sinai Desert, Oman, Zanzibar, Zambia, Nepal and other places I am sure I will never see again. If I think I will visit some countries in the future or that I already can sort of experience in my own country I would not put them on my list. imo its about exploring cultures, people, food, environments that I am not used to. If I can shark cage dive here, why would I go to Australia to do it there for instance.

I guess there are many things you have to consider, such as best season, events taking place, what activities you want to do(golfing, wine tours, diving, skiing, river rafting etc.)
hf

someone explain everything about iceland as a 2-4week holiday to me :E

See nature, bring lots of money and get drunk loads of times.

thats excellent advice for any world travel destination...

the moon?

oh wait, that's not really "world"

oh, my mom is on the phone crying, and i'm so tempted to ask, "who died?" LOL

but i don't know yet what is up, so someone might actually have died : o

SO what happened?

someone died but i didn't know the person :p

So what happened, did somebody die or not?

"someone died but i didn't know the person :p"

wtf, ironic that we answered you with only a minute in between =)

ironic? x)

Someone? x)

boyfriend of my aunt apparently.. the reason i asked "ironic?" is because i can't see the irony in the coincidence that you posted almost at the same time; it's strange, peculiar, random, even a bit funny, but not really ironic x)

I would give better advice but I always assume aggnog is trolling :o

i don't like this image the press have given me

?!?!?!

Northern lights, that's about it.

Yeah people come in the summer to see the northern lights.

I still wanna check that, looks fake hollywood effects imo :P

serial killing, goat killing, penguin loving, whale hunting, collar wearing goths

I think.

+ fat
+ snow
+ igloos
+ nets

+ volcanoes

basically, don't go.

only if you know where hnns sister lives, then go with a lot of viagra

i'm going to kill you one day

i'll lend you my inflated lolita sheep for the purpose

"basically, don't go."

I see bright future for you in a travel agency.

Oh mate you are so the next victim of hnns.

Just thought I'd bump this thread - someone may be interested. I'm not far off being 2 months on the road. You can read about my experiences over at http://chas.noobs-anonymous.net (did a month in the states and am currently in NZ). Photos can be found over at http://www.flickr.com/photos/charliesteele/.

Great pics - looks like you are having a great time .. meanwhile back in rainy England .. :)

Yeah, great pics, but no pics of your girlfriend? :(

there is no gf (suits me fine right now, tbh :D)

i am so jealous :D

have an amazing time :)

yo chas nice pics, looks like youve got the weather man, especially in kaikoura

it's been really hit and miss. the kiwi's are saying its the most temperamental summer for a good while. but aye, any time i set myself up to do a nice activity the weather always seems to oblige. kaikoura is stunning. really like this place - it's like the bay of islands without all the bullshit.

kaikoura was in the national paper yesterday. the steady population of the town is 3000 .. yet during these summer months over 9000 people have tried to get dolphin swimming/whale watching.. and thats only a few of the activities they offer here. pretty crazy stuff :D

moff to christchurch in a few hours o/

Aw, am envious. I gotta go somewhere soon, my legs itch, these 2 week trips just don't cut it! :D

Hope you have a wonderful time! I liked your pics from mongolia too!

nice 1 dude, live it up. I'm hoping to do something similar with my gf ina coupla years. enjoy it!!!

(my trip would b something like eu>africa>asia>au/nz/south america>north america>canada. featuring islands of sorts and various current/historical and cultural landmarks)

again. GL and HF :D

global warming does not approve of this thread

But the classical economist do, HAR!

Hmm, slight chance that I am gonna goto the Netherlands next year in Jan on holiday. So can anyone suggest some places to see and things to do in .nl and surrounding countries?

The red light district is a popular tourist attraction.

Yeah, and all South Africans already got Aids by default so no worries for me. \o/

ieuw

january next year? i've done some calculations and that's a year from now.

:P going myself in february, staying at an apartment few minutes from the red light district.
Also going to pumpkins in copenhagen, ANYONE ELSE?

Google "where the hell is matt" Thats a list in itself

You should also put Dubai on the list :D

cyprus is so amazingly awesome

kapstadt
tokio
rio de janiero

+ could you write to the photos where it is ;)