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Mar 22, 2009 23:52

I'm having my mind soundly blown tonight.

I've started plotting the tentative stops for my round-the-world jaunt. I'm working under the assumption that I'll buy my ticket as a Star Alliance Round The World Fare.(1) This ticket would limit to me to 15 flights, total.

15 flights.

Anywhere in the world.

Where would you go?
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baudot March 23 2009, 16:47:13 UTC

True that it doesn't have to be the last time, but the chance to do this only comes around every so often in a lifetime.

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baudot March 23 2009, 16:02:55 UTC

I'm actually planning on that. Most of the places I want to go in Europe are in the Eurail system.

writer_lynn March 23 2009, 16:17:06 UTC

Yes! The rates for a rail pass weren't that bad the last time that I looked in comparison to where it would take you if you had the time.

Tell me you will visit Prague so I can live through you :)

baudot March 23 2009, 17:45:17 UTC

Prague is definitely on the list. I might even return back there to settle. I'm looking for some place cheap with 'net access and modest safety to settle in for a while. Prague is duking it out with "some beach in south Thailand" to get to the top of that list, at least so far as my pre-travel prejudices have the world arranged.

Where would you go in Prague?

Annoyingly for getting to Prague, Poland doesn't honor the Eurail Global Pass. But it's only a 4+ hour hop from Berlin. Likely that won't be bad out of pocket.

professor March 23 2009, 20:48:13 UTC

I got your email and replied, but I've got one other piece of advice -- mass transit in Europe is pretty freaking awesome, between trains, ferries, buses, and backpacker tours. I'd save most of your flights for other continents.

k2orbust March 25 2009, 05:11:10 UTC

Neato! Since you can fly into and out of different cities, it really becomes a question of how long you have for the whole trip.

Railay (near Krabi in southern Thailand) has rock climbing right on the beach.

Varanasi, the holy city on the Ganges, is a pretty mind-blowing place, as is Bodhgaya, the spot where the historical Buddha reached enlightenment.

If it was my trip to plan, it would be one long-ass trip. I'd go to Alaska, and New Zealand, and Australia (for Ayers Rock), and Indonesia (for Bali and Java), and back to Japan, and back to Nepal (in October or November), and maybe Egypt (for pyramids and Red Sea snorkeling), and Morocco, and England, and Iceland (for the moonscapes and geysers), and Bolivia, and Peru, and Costa Rica. I wonder what the travel agent rules say about all that equator-hopping...