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Solo RTW Travel

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

There are a lot of RTW travel myths and misconceptions floating around the world these days. Of course, most of them originate from people who have never taken an extended trip before. They think you have to be rich to do it, and that taking off from your job to travel the world is folly and will mess up your career path for the rest of your life. They say you can’t do it with children or that it’s impossible if you own your home.

But they are all wrong. The real travel truths are that you can do it, in almost any situation or stage of life. It just might not be as easy for some as for others, particularly for solo travelers.

So what if you are by yourself? What if you don’t have a friend or spouse who wants to accompany you on your big trip? Some people say you should just stay home. It’s too dangerous to travel alone (particularly if you are a woman). You’ll get lonely on the road. With no one there to share the adventure, it just won’t be as fun as you think. Again these solo female travel myths are most often
perpetuated by people who haven’t done what they’re warning you against. And those these people often mean the best and think they’re just looking out for you, they are completely misguided and their assumptions are false.

While traveling alone, particularly as a woman in some countries, does put you are slightly more risk, if you use common sense you can reduce your chances of being a target. Knowing the local cultures and customs and taking a few precautions can help. And while traveling alone may seems lonely at first, you’ll quickly discover how eager people are to make friends. If you stay in a hostel, take a class or join a group tour, it’s easy to meet up with like-minded people and travel together for a while. You may make life-long friends on your trip, and you’ll be anything but lonely.

Don’t let the naysayers talk you out of taking your round the world trip, even if you find yourself setting out alone. Traveling solo can be just as rewarding as going with a companion, and once you’re out exploring the world you may find your best travel partner is yourself.

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RTW Inspiration: Travel Themes

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

Not everyone needs an inspiration to take a RTW trip, but sometimes it’s fun to have a theme for a journey. Some people take cooking classes, some go in search of Icelandic elves, some skydive in each place they visit, some go birdwatching around the world – the list of possibilities is endless. The main thing is to make sure it’s something that interests you.

A popular quest for many travelers is to follow the sun around the world. It’s not difficult to do this, since there’s always some place on the planet that’s warm no matter what time of year it is, but sometimes going where the sun is means going at the most expensive time of year. Ideal weather does, after all, tend to indicate the high season. Luckily, there are enough places that are delightful weather-wise during the shoulder season that you don’t have to spend a fortune to visit.

One fun activity many people all over the planet take part in – whether they’re traveling or not – is geocaching. It’s something you can do where you live, hunting down caches and hiding your own for others to find, but it’s widespread enough now that you can go geocaching around the world. All it takes is a GPS unit or a geocaching app on an iPhone – it’s an activity that can get you away from the usual stops on a traveler’s itinerary, and potentially help you interact with the locals, too.

For anyone who’s traveling on a budget, there are all kinds of things you can do to get away from your normal routine without blowing a lot of money. Not only that, there are some places where the normal tourist routine includes free activities and attractions. The free ways to discover a destination vary depending on where you are, but in many places you can find free museums, art-filled churches with free entry, free city walking tours, free outdoor concerts or movies, and free festivals. It’s always worth a stop at the tourist information office to find out what you can do for free in a given location.

What’s the inspiration or theme for your RTW trip?

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Special May fares for RTW tickets

Monday, May 4th, 2009

It’s quite possible you’re going to get sick of reading about how insanely good the travel deals are at the moment. Because every time we turn around, they seem to get better. First we saw lower-than-normal winter airfares and rejoiced. Then the deals continued into the spring, when we all love to travel anyway. But we assumed that come time for summer fares to start showing up, those cheap airline tickets would be a thing of the past.

Turns out we were, thankfully, wrong.

Summer travel deals to all the places that people love to go in the summer but normally pay through the nose for are everywhere we look, and we’re kind of giddy about it. And that goes for everything from simple round-trip tickets to the most complicated multi-stop itinerary. So if you’ve been putting off buying your RTW ticket because you figured you’d missed the winter and spring deals and would have to wait until the fall, think again.

These are the May RTW ticket deals – these prices are good through May 31, 2009.

• Miami – Rio de Janeiro – Buenos Aires – Santiago – Lima – Bogota – Miami from US$1249 (plus taxes)
• Los Angeles – Tokyo – Singapore – Delhi – Istanbul – Rome – Prague – Madrid – Dublin – Los Angeles from US$1999 (plus taxes)
• New York – Hong Kong – Bangkok – Singapore – Saigon / Ho Chi Minh – Sydney – Johannesburg – Frankfurt – Paris – London – Athens – New York from US$2899 (plus taxes)

These itineraries cover so many points on the globe that it’s hard to imagine you not finding at least one that’s interesting. But if you need to make a minor change to one of them, or want to start over entirely and create something specifically tailored to your dream trip, you can do just that with this easy and fun RTW trip planner.

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Special October fares for RTW tickets

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

So, with the tanking economy all over the news these days, you might be finding it harder to justify taking off for an extended period of time to travel. But if you’re still game, we’ve got your back – we happen to think there’s no time like the present to take a long trip. After all, the world is going through a transition, right? Major transitions are one of the best reasons to travel. Now, you’re probably going to have to be a smarter traveler than you might have otherwise needed to be – it’ll be even more important to hunt down the best travel deals, for instance – but we can help you become a seriously savvy traveler. All you’ve got to do is get out there.

With that in mind, we want to make sure you don’t freak out when you see the price on the 3rd RTW ticket deal listed here. It’s a bigger number than we usually see on these RTW deals, but before you hyperventilate, just check out the itinerary you’re getting for that money. It’s an amazing list of cities, and with 16 flights it works out to less than $290 for each ticket. Yeah, we think that’s pretty incredible, too.

Don’t stop dreaming, folks.

Here are the October RTW ticket deals – these prices are good through October 31, 2008.

• San Francisco – Hong Kong – Bangkok – Bombay (Mumbai) – Bangalore – Singapore – San Francisco from US$1599 (plus taxes)
• New York – Rio de Janeiro – Sao Paulo – Johannesburg – Nairobi – Dakar – New York from US$2899 (plus taxes)
• Miami – Buenos Aires – Rio de Janeiro – Lisbon – Dakar – Overland On Your Own – Bamako – Casablanca – Istanbul – Bahrain – Delhi – Kathmandu – Bangkok – Angkor Wat (Siem Reap) – Vientiane – Hanoi – Hong Kong – San Francisco – Miami from US$4599 (plus taxes)

And if these itineraries don’t tickle your fancy completely, that doesn’t mean you have to twiddle your thumbs until next month’s deals come out – start planning your own customized RTW trip in seconds and hit just the cities you want.

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