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RTW Travel Articles from March, 2008
Don’t be afraid to go fast through certain places on your RTW trip
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
If you are at the stage of planning your RTW trip where you are putting together a loose itinerary and asking for advice from people who’ve done it before, beware of one common theme. People who’ve done RTWs before will almost ALWAYS say your itinerary looks like you are rushing and trying to see too much in too short of a time. That’s definitely something to consider, but don’t assume that advice is always right.
The ideal scenario is if you have an unlimited amount of time and an infinite budget, but obviously this isn’t ever actually the case. So there will always be sacrifices one way or another. If you plan on spending 9 days seeing the highlights of Italy nearly everyone will come back at you insisting that’s not nearly enough time to even scratch the surface. But you know what? They are wrong. You can see a hell of a lot in 9 days in Italy.
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Going east or west - There are some differences worth considering
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
If you have planned your RTW route already then this might just be an interesting phenomenon that you’ll encounter, but if you are still considering your route you might want to consider this when you do. Traveling around the world in one direction does have some significant timing differences to doing it the other direction. If you are going for, say, a year or more, this is all pretty meaningless, but if you are going for perhaps 6 months or less you’ll definitely notice the difference.
Specifically what I’m referring to here is the time-zone change thing. It’s probably not something you’d think of before you leave, but it will affect you on many of your travel days. If you are a “morning person” it will affect your differently than if you are a night owl. Okay, time to get specific.
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City bicycle tours are way better than you might think
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
This is less of a RTW and more of just a general travel tip, but one aspect of it does make it special for the RTW crowd. For many of us who arrive in a new city for the first time, a tour of some kind is the best way to size the entire place up quickly so we can decide which things we want to see in detail during our visit. Bus tours are definitely the most popular in big cities around the world, but if you find yourself in one of the increasing number of places that have regular bicycle tours, do it.This new trend may have started in Europe, and now many cities there have these small-time operations, but you can find them in pockets around the world as well. They tend to work like this: Interested people are asked to show up at a specific corner or landmark at an exact time of the day, and the rest is taken care of for them. In some cases a company will actually be ready with a truck full of bicycles, and other times the tour group is led a few blocks to a storage facility where all the bikes are kept. You usually don’t even have to make reservations, and they tend to be relatively cheap as well. (more…)
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Schedule contrast into your RTW route
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
We’ll file this under the category of Things that may not be obvious until you are actually on the road, so I thought it’s worth discussing for people who are still planning their RTW route. When you are at home with your maps and travel books or Web pages and whatnot, you can come up with an efficient route that will include the shortest jumps possible. This sort of thing works well at first, but what you’ll find after only a short time is that short jumps make places run together pretty quickly.
Let’s take Europe for example. You might fly into Amsterdam and then head into Belgium before entering Germany, which has at least a dozen worthwhile cities to visit. Even if you don’t plan on visiting all of them (and you shouldn’t), you’ll find that journeys of 100 or 150 kilometers will put you in a place that looks oddly similar to the place you just left. Nearly every European city has a huge main church of some kind as its tourism centerpiece, and each of them could be very impressive if you arrived from, say, Turkey. But if you see one church one day and a similar one the next you’ll begin realizing something like, “This is the 9th most impressive church I’ve seen this month.” And the same is true of Roman walls and main town squares. Each of them is impressive if you hadn’t just seen all the others.
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RTW ticket deals for March 2008
Monday, March 3rd, 2008We’ve always got some really interesting deals on RTW tickets, and we are going to share them with you here each month. These are the deals for March 2008, and they are bargains, but they are also just examples of routes and prices. It’s likely you’ll have your own specific idea of where you want to go and in which order, and anything is possible with these tickets.
So have a look at these deals and then click on the links so you can modify these routes for your own purposes or start from scratch getting a custom quote for your own specific itinerary.
This Pacific Rim loop isn’t exactly a RTW, but it’s covers a lot for a small price.
Since so many RTW travelers have done Europe and Asia already, this is a popular route to hit South America and Africa.
This is a typical RTW that is popular right now because it skips expensive Europe that is often better visited separately, and connects the other 5 main continents together in an efficient route.
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