Now that we're telling people that we'll be travelling around the world, it seems that we have no dearth of friends who have travelled and/or lived around the world and have offered their advice as to what to do in each place.
We're very fortunate that friends and family around the world are helping us in so many ways on this trip. We've got family and friends in Paris, Collioure (France), Madrid, South Africa, India (of course!), Thailand, New Zealand, Moscow, Brazil etc. Quite amazing.
Some examples:
- We met a San Francisco couple who spent 14 months traveling around the world from 2002 to 2003. Their theme was wildlife - they picked all sorts of wildlife-related events around the world and then scheduled their trip around those events. So, for example, they went to see the big migration in Tanzania in January and the migration of whales in Australia is some other month. They saw five types of big cats in South America etc. etc.!
- A family friend of ours in New York state has spent the last couple of decades travelling around the world. We got some detailed feedback on Mt. Kilimanjaro and how to go about climbing it!
- We met another San Francisco couple who are going to be going to South America for several months, including going to Patagonia and Tierra Del Fuegos.
- A friend of ours (she knows who she is!) spent a couple of months in New Zealand and several months in Australia. We got detailed advice on where to go in New Zealand!
- A friend from work is from Russia and is giving us advice on what to say and where to go - for example, the Golden Circle around Moscow. I have my suspicions, though, that he is going to make us look foolish by teaching us so-called everyday phrases such as "hello" or "how much" that actually are curse words... :-)
- And many more such examples ...
In terms of learning about different places, I've also gone to sites like TravelPod which has fascinating blogs on world travel. And then, of course, we have our Lonely Planet guides, of which we have so many that we may require a separate backpack just to carry those!
-dev
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