Posts Tagged ‘around the world’
Think you’re a light packer? Be prepared to be humiliated. Essential travel writer Rolf Potts started a masterly conceived project/publicity stunt this weekend to draw attention to both the exorbitant world of modern baggage fees and to show that “what we experience in life is more important than what we bring with us”.
Potts is traveling around the world with nothing but the clothes on his back (and whatever he can fit in them). I love this not only because when I travel I always feel hopelessly overburdened, lugging around all my stuff, playing the obvious traveler with giant camera, books, cables and all sort of other creature comforts.
As a traveler at heart there may be nothing better than abbreviating your day by watching a travel video, one that whisks you away ever so briefly and feeds that craving to be on the road. If you either can’t go or are desperately waiting to, it’s a way to quell that chronic and ever-present traveler’s impatience. Let’s take a second, shall we, to appreciate the people who’ve embarrassed themselves with a video camera around the world so we didn’t have to.
Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as you might think to find great travel videos on the web, ones both inspiring and worth your time to watch. So to help, I’ve put together a handful of places where you can find them and one that are often well-crafted and interesting to boot.
Here are the best 7 sites I found to watch travel videos for free. So sit back and relax, take in a film and feel that impatience ebbing away…
There are a thousand routes around the world. Ask a different traveler and you’ll get a different answer about which route is the best, which region is the most beautiful and which curry will most quickly light your mouth on fire.
But even with these voices, you still need a little objective advice to help make your decision the best one when planning a route of your own, the opinion of someone who has seen what travelers do and why. To help dampen the noise of popular opinion, I’ve assembled a helpful list of 5 different routes that make sense in getting you around the world.
The following trips are compiled with a few things in mind: price (overall cost-effectiveness), efficiency (fewer hours in the air), value (getting more for your money) and overall amazingness of the destinations (based on common perceptions of what’s cool in the world to visit).
These are in no particular order and arbitrarily go in an easterly direction, even though prices are typically similar regardless of which direction you travel. They all start in New York, for lack of a better starting point. Yours can start from wherever you happen to be.
Here we go!
I officially have World Cup fever. While watching that heart-stopping match this morning between USA and Algeria, I got to thinking. The new stadiums of South Africa are stunning to say the least, massive, modern and worth seeing in person, without a doubt.
So what if I wanted to visit all the World Cup host nations around the world? Because I have a keen propensity to dream, I’ve put together a round-the-world ticket that goes to each host country to visit their beautiful cathedrals to soccer.
Creative types are always going places looking for just one more thing to sink their fingers into up to their knuckles. This is a good thing – it gives us some of the most interesting and thought-provoking pieces of travel-related entertainment that we can find online.
The following video was filmed and directed by two French fellows, Romain Pergeaux and Alex Profit, who took a round-the-world trip last year to film their project.
From their YouTube site:
A project done in only 3 weeks. The making of the video, pictures and an interview of Alex Profit can be seen at www.tourdumonde80.fr. Our tour included stops in London – Cairo – Mumbay – Hong Kong – Tokyo – San Francisco – New York – London. This route is a tribute to the famous Jules Verne’s book “Le tour du monde en 80 jours”.
This installment is part of our Friday Afternoon Palate Cleanser series of travel videos found on the web. To see all the other items in the series click here.
You may not realize it in a phone conversation but Justin helps his clients from his flat in Sao Paulo, Brazil; he’s one of AirTreks’ 8 travel consultants living outside of San Francisco. Being in Brazil may explain his desire to see more of the South American continent on his dream trip. He’s also including a country that’s proving to be very popular with the agents here: Maldives.
To Justin I posed the Your Agent’s Dream Trip question:
“Without having to state your reasons, and if cost was of no importance, what would be your dream around-the-world trip in 10 stops or less.”
Here’s what Justin came up with, starting in Sao Paulo:
Dave, one of AirTreks’ skilled travel consultants, has a penchant for long stays in exotic countries. After spending a year of his life in the island nation of the Maldives and over four years in Thailand, Dave is very familiar with the world traveler’s state of mind.
To Dave I posed the Your Agent’s Dream Trip question:
“Without having to state your reasons, and if cost was of no importance, what would be your dream around-the-world trip in 10 stops or less.”
Here’s what Dave came up with, starting in his current home town of San Francisco:
Glenn has been in the business a long time, and as one of AirTrek’s longest-standing employees he’s a seasoned traveler. His passport will show you — with recent trips to Borneo, Malaysia and Argentina, plus the 20+ years he’s been under the influence of the travel bug, Glenn knows his geography.
With this in mind I expected his dream trip to be pretty exotic — he didn’t let me down.
To Glenn I posed the Your Agent’s Dream Trip question:
“Without having to state your reasons, and if cost was of no importance, what would be your dream around-the-world trip in 10 stops or less.”
Here’s what he offered. (Glenn lives in Oakland, CA but said he’d be willing to come across the Bay to catch his international flight. He’s nice that way.)
The following article is a guest post from Suzi at Packabook.com. If you would like to have your travel-related article, journal or review appear on the AirTreks travel blog click here.
Can there be anything more exciting than the idea of setting off on a Round the World journey – or even a Part of the World journey?
You are just filled with the anticipation of all the amazing places you will see, and fascinating people you will meet. You can’t wait to get that rucksack packed, to buy your travel towel and pegless washing line, to get some money in an exotic currency….
But the problem is – while your trip is booked – it might still be MONTHS before you are actually on the road.
So – what to do in the meantime?
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