Itinerary

Planning the whole travel is quite a thrill!

Basically, this kind of trip doesn’t start when one leaves his/her residence country with a backpack but many months before. First, when the idea crosses out our minds! Follows a maturation process until deciding to jump from dreams to reality!

Starts then the preparation period. That’s where we are for now! So... what needs to be dealt with?

We identified 5 different areas:

• Itinerary
• Equipment
• Financial aspects
• Heath considerations
• Administrative stuff

Each of them will be brought up in an article. Let’s start with the itinerary!!

We began with naming all the countries and the areas we wanted to see. We decided to travel mostly with trains and buses to make the most of our journey: seeing the landscapes and the borders is part of the trip. With a whole year at our disposal, we hope to actually take the time which is so rushed in our city lives and adopt another rhythm more adequate to nomadism.

So we hope to visit more than thirty countries through four continents (Europe, Asia, Oceania and Americas). Here is the list and the approximate days of our stay.

COUNTRIES	APPROXIMATE DATES	NUMBER OF DAYS
France	27 January 2011	-
Italy	28 January – 1 February 2011	5
Slovenia	2-4 February 2011	3
Croatia	5-7 February 2011	3
Hungary	8-10 February 2011	3
Romania	11-16 February 2011	6
Bulgaria	17-19 February 2011	3
Jordan	20 February – 2 March 2011	11
Syria	3-12 March 2011	10
Iran	13-25 March 2011	13
Nepal	26 March – 1 April 2011	7
India	2-28 April 2011	27
Thailand	29 April – 6 May 2011	8
Laos	7-17 May 2011	11
Cambodia	18-25 May 2011	8
Vietnam	26 May – 6 June 2011	12
Malaysia	7 - 14 June 2011	8
South Korea	15-27 June 2011	13
China	28 June – 18 July 2011	21
Macau	19-20 July 2011	2
Hong Kong	21-25 July 2011	4
Indonesia	26 July – 4 August 2011	10
Singapore	5-8 August 2011	4
Australia	9 August - 3 September 2011	26
New Zeeland	4-17 September 2011	14
USA	18 September – 27 October 2011	40
The Bahamas	28 October – 2 November 2011	6
Cuba	3–16 November 2011	14
Costa Rica	17-24 October 2011	8
Ecuador	25-27 November 2011	3
Galapagos Island	28 Novembre - 2 December 2011	5
Ecuador	3-7 December 2011	5
Peru	8–21 December 2011	14
Bolivia	22 December 2011 – 4 January 2012	14
Chile	5-16 January 2012	12
Argentine	17-26 January & 3-11 February 2012	10+9
Uruguay	29 January - 2 February 2012	7

We are fully aware that we may have scheduled too many countries to visit but this draft gives us a precise idea of the period we will be in each country and region and is very helpful to plan the visa applications (but we will talk about that later!).

Also anyone who would like to join us at any point of the route is more than welcome to say so! The schedule can easily be modified accordingly! :)