Our Itinerary
by Sil

For now, we have planned our round the world trip to take us to:
Holland: 28/July/2002
Canada-New York: 4/Aug/2002
Holland: 23/Aug-23/Sept/2002
India: 23/Sept - 30/Sept/2002
Nepal: October 2002
Thailand-Cambodia-Laos: November/2002-January 2003
Malaysia-Singapore: aprx 2 weeks in Jan/2003
Indonesia: Feb-March/2003
Australia:March/2003
Tahiti: 3-5 days in April 2003
Rapa Nui: 5 days in April 2003
Chile: April-May/2003
Chile-Bolivia-Peru-Ecuador-Galapagos: May-July/2003
Brazil: August-23/Sept/2003

One of the biggest arguing point in planning the trip is of course where do you go when you have a whole year in front of you to explore the world?
Even though a year could sounds like a lot, once you start planning, the time disappears and feels like nothing, trust me.
For starters Chris really wanted to go to Asia and South America, I wanted to see Africa and Australia (you get my point!). If you check our travel route it is easy to see who is the sales manager amongst us....Chris obviously won this argument, and not in the least because he was paying the rent and promised the pay for the trip. Somewhere along the line we decided to split the cost but I still am not going to Africa (hmm, did something very very wrong here). On the bright side I have now heard so many people telling us enthusiastic stories about the continents we are visiting that I can not wait to go and explore them. So once we decided on the continents there were still the countries to pick. Luckily we were in agreement fairly fast on those.
We made one change quite recently which is to change Vietnam to Laos. This is because of other travellers being very enthusiastic about Laos and much less so about Vietnam (almost impossible to travel on the beaten tracks which means you end up in buses full of old german/english/belgium/russian tourists, and the vietnamese have become very pushy, in-your-face and persistant...). However with two continents being so far apart and little things like winter time, versus monsoon taken into account, we sat with our little chart for quite a while trying to make sure we wouldn't be wet and cold too often (some people don't mind this and consider it part of the experience, but we quickly realised that we were not one of those rough die-hard adventurers). Therefore we are now starting with Nepal in the best traveling month being October and planned the rest according to their best seasons. Nature luckily has a great way of helping along by making the weather perfect in a very orderly fashion.