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Ticket and admin stuff
by Silvia

Ticket cost
One of the largest cost you will have besides your travelgear is the ticket. At first we thought about buying only one ticket taking us to Nepal (our supposed first port of call) and then taking it one ticket at the time from there. However after finding out the cost of a world ticket we soon changed our minds. We checked the prices for these tickets through vliegwinkel.nl (airtrade.com is a great site as well, though not so well geared for people leaving from Europe). Vliegwinkel however have been extremely helpful and therefore a small written thanks to them. Round the world tickets work as follows.: Every airline alliance have their own tickets and they are charged either according to the amount of miles you fly or by the amount of stops you make on each continent. Our biggest issue was Easter Island. We wanted to go there but soon found out that the cost of flying there from Chili was a bit above our budget (over USD800 per person from Santiago). We were informed however that Lan Chile landed on Easter Island on their flight from Australia to Santiago. Lan Chile is in alliance with British Airways and Quantas (OneWorld) which worked out perfectly for us as they could cover most of the routes we needed. The only unfortunate flight turned out to be the first flight as BA doesn't fly to Kathmandu. The nearest option was New Delhi so we decided to go for this and visit a friend of Chris who recently moved there (ah, it worked out perfectly after all).
Our flights, covered in the ticket, are as follows: Amsterdam - London - New Delhi - overland Asia to Jakarta - Jakarta - Perth - Sydney - Tahiti - Easter Island - Chili - overland to Sao Paolo - direct flight to Amsterdam (it sounds like nothing if you type it like this!). The cost of this flight including airport taxes and the visa for Australia came to EUR 2600 per person (incl taxes), which in our spoiled eyes is not bad at all.
The remaining flights, buses, trains, boats etc. will come on top of this, but hopefully we will be able to get some good deals while we are traveling. Keep those fingers crossed please......