THE PROPOSED "Round-the-World TRAVEL ROUTE

Continent	Country	Places
South America	Venezuela	Caracas
	Columbia	San Augustin = Archeological Park
		Bogota
		Cartagena
		Barranquilla & Santa Marta
	Peru	Lima
		Nasca
		Cusco
		Machu Pichu
		Arequipa
	Bolivia	Copacabana
		La Paz
		Sucre
	Chile	Santiago
	Argentina	Cordoba
		Buenos Aires
	Uruguay	Montevideo
	Brazil	Iguassu Falls
		Sao Paulo
		Rio de Janeiro
		Iguassu Falls
Africa	South Africa	Cape Town
		Port Elizabeth
		Durban
		Johannesburg
		Kruger Park
	Botswana	Kalahari Desert (S), Victoria Falls (N)
	Zambia/Zimbabwe	Border to Botswana = Victoria falls
	Tanzania	Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar
		Serengeti Safari
		Kilimanjaro
	Kenya	Nairobi  & possible Safari
	Sudan	Khartoum
	Egypt	Abu Simbel, Lake Nasser
		Aswan
		Luxor & Thebes
		Abydos,
		Mallawi, Hermopolis, Al-Amarnah
		Cairo
		Alexandria
		Port Said, Port Suez
Middle East		Sinai
	Jordan	Aqaba, Petra
	Israel	Masada, Hebron
		Jerusalem, Nazareth, Tel Aviv, Haifa,
	Syria	Damascus
	Turkey   ? Later trip?	Anatolia, Capadochia
	Kuwait
	Bahrain
	Qatar	Suk de Doha
	United Arab Emirates	Dubai
	Iran	Tabriz, Tehran
Asia	India	Mumbai (Bombay)
		Delhi
		Agra
		Jaipur
		Udaipur
		Orchha
		Khajuraho
	Nepal	Katmandu
	Tibet	Lhasa
	China	Chengdu
		Dunhuang
		Beijing
		Luoyang
		Pingyao
		Xi'an
		Nanjing
		Suzhou
		Shanghai
		Hangzou
	Japan	Tokyo   (Travel by bullet train)
		Excursions from Tokyo
		Kyoto
		Excursions from Kyoto
		Osaka
		Hiroshima
		Nagasaki
	Taiwan	Taipei
	China (south)	Hong Kong     & Macao
		Xiamen, Quanzhou, Yongding
South East Asia	Vietnam	Hanoi  (North)
		Danang:  Hue, Hoi An,   (Fly to Hue from Hanoi)
		Saigon(Ho Chi Minh City)  South
		(3 to 4 days by boat from Mekong Delta to Phnom Penh)
	Cambodia	Phnom Penh
		(5 hour boat ride from PP to Siem Reap)
		Siem Reap   Stay in Guest House (La Noria)
	Laos	Luang Prabang ***
		Ventiane
		(By boat from Laos to Northern Thailand)
Indonesia	Thailand	Northern   (cool, mountainous)
		Bangkok
		(fly Thai or Bangkok Airways from Bangkok)
		Phuket Island   or
		Krabi (on mainland)
	Malaysia (North)	Penang Island
		Kuala Lumpur
		Melaka / Malacca
		Taman Negara National Park
	Singapore	Singapore   (Island 42 x 23 km)
	Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan  (Flight from Singapore)
	Malaysia (South)	Borneo:  Sarawak: Kuching
	Borneo	Kalimantan
	Java	Jakarta
	Bali	Denpasar (Capital & Airport)
		Ubud  (Visit island from this home base: Alam Sari Hotel or Tjampuhan Hotel)
		Tenganan, Penestanan, Lovina
		Lombok (off coast of Bali)
Australasia	Australia	Darwin
		Outback
		Adelaide
		Melbourne
		Sydney
		Brisbane
		Cairns (vegas like)
		Fly back to Sydney
	New Zealand	Christchurch
		on the south island
		Queenstown
		Ferry across Cook Strait to north island
		Wellington
		Rotorua
		Aukland
South Pacific
	Fiji	Beach, REST,
		Nandi  (main arrival for tourists)
	Tonga, Samoa
	Tahiti	Papeete
	Easter Islands
South America	Galapagos	Cruise through the islands
	Ecuador	Quito
DEPENDING ON TIME OF YEAR   =	HOME   OR
Central America	Panama	Canal
	Costa Rica
	Guatemala	Antigua (Hotel Casa Santo Domingo)
		La Reunion, Tikal
North America	Mexico
	USA	Mesa
	Canada	Ottawa