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headin round the world

  • 03-09-2004 6:22pm
    #1
    bbop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭


    Hey Guys
    im doing the whole round the world thing from the middle of November, my route is Dublin-Bangkok-singapore-perth-sydney-melbourne-christchurch-aukland-figi-san diego-toronto-dublin

    just lookin for all sorts of advice places to visit, places to stay things to do, also i still have time to change my itinery so if anyone thinks i should avoid somewhere

    going to spend christmas in Perth, so any advice on it would come in handy

    im headin for 9 months in all

    thanks


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  • #2
    Micheal Wittman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭Micheal Wittman


    Hi bbop, I don't have any advice for you but I was just wondering are you planning to work while traveling or have you saved up for it.


  • #3
    bbop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭bbop


    i think ill have saved enough money to last but i will do a bit of work if i get it


  • #4
    Duffman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭Duffman


    Just wondering how much those multi-stop tickets cost?


  • #5
    silverside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭silverside


    i posted once or twice here about good stuff to see in Australia, have a search if you want.
    Bangkok is very interesting for a day or two but be prepared for some friendly scam artists. if you want to spend some more time in Thailand you could do the usual tourist thing of Chaing Mai , and Ko Samui or Ko Tau for diving (didnt do this myself but heard good reports).
    why singapore? any reports i've heard say it's expensive and a police state.
    Perth can be a bit dead but make sure you go to Fremantle (beach suburb). Unless you have relations/friends or really want to go there I would spend some time in Brisbane instead. I really liked Brissie as did most people I talked to.

    Toronto is an underrated city, comes alive at night.Take a one day bus tour to niagara falls. Go to Montreal if you can, it's even better.


  • #6
    therecklessone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    Search for a couple of threads on NZ which were doing the rounds about two months ago.

    Loads of good advice on them.


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  • #7
    bbop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭bbop


    it costs around 2000-2200 euro for the trip if u include tax, insurance, visa n top of the tickets


  • #8
    ionapaul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,307 ✭✭✭ionapaul


    In Singapore, check out:
    http://www.asiahotels.com/hotelinfo/Keong_Saik_Hotel/

    Stayed there in April (I think!) 2003 at the height of the SARS 'epidemic' (after 5 days in Hong Kong, face-mask city!) - nice hotel and cheap too. Singapore is nice, but hot and humid. Visit the Night Safari, and go to Ruffles and have a Singapore Sling at the Long Bar. If feeling amazingly safe at all times day or night and a beautiful, clean city are consequences of the police state, bring it on to Dublin :) We certainly could do with some public canings.

    I lived in San Diego for a while a few years ago - as it towards the end of your trip I would recommend you go out in style and stay at the Wyndham - bad ass hotel, on the main street of the city. Stayed there earlier this year actually. Visit the Wild Animal Safari Park and/or San Diego Zoo, best in the world. Go out in the Gaslamp Quarter and see the beautiful girls. Then cry when boarding the flight home...you won't see them again for a while :( Wish they all could be Californian girls!


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