When I got back from Thailand in the July of this year, I took one look at the weather and decided to plan my next trip. As it happened, a friend of mine (Daisy) was planning a world trip tentatively, so I hijacked her plans and decided to come along for the ride. Over a few Margaritas our world trip had turned turned into epic proportions and we first had to decide on the route, which at first seemed very easy, but after several lengthy conversations with our travel agent, we realised we’d have to scale down our trip a lot to make it financially and physically viable (we are only going to be away for a year!).

We decided to start our travels in Mexico, which tends to be the opposite way round most people tend to do a world tour but both Daisy and I were very keep to discover Central and South America. From Mexico we will travel down to the border with Belize, stopping off at some of the beautiful ruins and beaches along the way. Then we’ll go along the Carribean coast of Belize, into Guatemala and finish the Central American leg of our tour in the Honduras doing some long awaited scuba diving there. That leg will be two (ish!) months.

From the Honduras we fly to Lima in Peru (so as to miss the most dangerous and completely blocked border between Panama and Columbia). There are a few major points of interest within Peru, the most obvious being the Nazca Lines and Machu Picchu. From there we’re going to try and get as far south as we can through the very diverse terrain of Chile. We’re hoping to get to the very tip at Cape Horn, time and weather permitting (we’ll only be spending two months in South America and it will be headed into deep winter in the far south).

We’ll fly from Santiago in Chile to Auckland in New Zealand for a short tour and to find some work for a few months to help boost funds for the rest of the trip. After our time is up in New Zealand we’ll head for a couple of weeks scuba diving along the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and from Cairns we fly onto the Asia leg of our tour, starting in Singapore.

From Singapore we’ll head up through Malaysia, Thailand, spend some time in Vietnam and Cambodia, and then we fly to Delhi in India to travel up north to the Himalayas and into Tibet. From Tibet we catch the highest train in the world (complete with pressurised cabins!) through the Himalayas and onwards to Bejing. Hopefully we’ll be able to see a bit of China normally Inaccessable to most tourists thanks to Daisy’s family who live in Beijing and then it’s back home in January 2008!

People laugh when I tell them a year’s not enough, though I’m sure you can see why I say that now!