<p>1) Italy (never been)
2) Ireland (went 2 years ago!! best week of my life)
3) Hong Kong (never been, but my cousin is moving there so I might get to visit)</p>
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<li>Switzerland</li>
<li>Japan</li>
<li>Greece</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Italy</li>
<li>Japan</li>
<li>mexico</li>
</ol>
<p>I've been to Spain (Madrid, BCN, Granada, C</p>
<p>Okay, I know I'm changing the rules a bit, but how did you guys all get to go to these amazing places? I'm truly curious; I want to know your secrets lol so that I might be able to do the same haha. Please share any advice :)</p>
<p>I want to go to North Africa, especially Morocco.</p>
<p>Japan
Sweden
Iceland</p>
<p>tnguyen08: Buy a plane ticket months in advance, then use the months before the trip to save money for the actual trip. Use kayak.com or other sites to search for "cheap" airfare (Student Universe might help too). Look for hotel or hostal bargains online. It helps to have friends to stay with. Look for short-stay apartment rentals (cook food yourself in the kitchen). Go during "off" seasons, although this is tough for students. Take shorter trips, unless you have to go during the high season and pay a bundle for your plane ticket - then it helps to stay for a while. Don't try to see all of Europe in 2 weeks, but rather, visit one country and a few cities or towns of that country at a time. Avoid London/all of the UK until you have some real cash to spend.</p>
<p>Also, one year I went to Spain for a month, and spent 2 weeks of that time learning Spanish at the Don Quijote language school (1 week in Madrid, 1 week in Granada). I found that it was actually cheaper than just going to Spain and staying in a hotel and being a regular tourist. Plus I met so many fun people and learned a new language!</p>
<p>tnguyen08-- I wish I had been to lots of amazing places. My trip this summer to France and Amsterdam is the first time I will be going out of the US (so obviously I'm over the moon about it). I would imagine that many people here grew up with a little extra money lying around (upper middle class-ish) and thus were able to travel alot.</p>
<p>England, Spain, Japan</p>
<p>thatgirltoo: did you do the spain thing through your school? </p>
<p>AUlostchick: awesome :D ! when are you leaving for france/amsterdam? is it through your school? I know, I figured that most people here were uppermiddle clash-ish, but I thought there would be at least one or two kids who could help me lol. i'm really looking forward to traveling...as soon as i get some dough rolling in...</p>
<p>japan, korea and china</p>
<p>hmmm... greece, morocco, japan. and a bunch of others. unfortunately, i dont really have the money to travel right now!</p>
<p>tnguyen08: Yes it is through my school (study abroad, Amsterdam is a side trip some friends and I are making while in Paris, over a weekend). I leave in about 3 weeks (3wks from yesterday actually), soooo excited!! I'm already trying to decide what to pack, lol. I would really love to travel alot, too. I love to fly, even though I've only been on a plane twice (the flight to Paris will be my third), and I love visiting new places. I've been virtually exploring Paris through Google Earth (however nerdy that sounds... Google Earth is freaking amazing!) and I am soooo ready to go!!
I hope you get to go to your destinations soon! I unfortunately had to take out a loan to be able to go on my study abroad trip, but the next time I go abroad, I want to have enough money saved up that I can just go travel around for a month or two.</p>
<p>So far, I've done China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and most of continental Southeast Asia. So, excluding those: </p>
<ol>
<li>The Levant (Israel, Palestinian territories, Lebanon)</li>
<li>Kashmir</li>
<li>Patagonia</li>
</ol>
<p>Madagascar, Stockholm, Swiss Alps.</p>
<p>Alaska, the Mediterranean and the nordic states.</p>
<p>buy a world tour ticket. you pay a ticket for a certain amount of mileage on your air plane ticket. can fly around forever until you run out. go to hostels or crash on someones place. </p>
<p>This is my plan:
Fly to New Zealand (lived there, crashing at friends' place), fly to Australia (again crash at friend's place), then fly to the UK (crash at friend's place in London), travel to Ireland (not sure about this part), travel to France through either boat or car <a href="and%20then%20crash%20at%20friends%20place%20there%20too">actually I think I'm going to take the Eurostar=>train between them</a>, roadtrip to Amsterdam with mates who are French, visit Germany via train (hostels), fly to Spain (hostels), hop on a train to Italy(hostels), finally arrive at Switzerland (crash at friends place and roadtrip around switzerland for a couple of days), and finally go to Sweden for the Swedish chicks. This will probably take me a good 6 weeks or more. I want to spend atleast 5 days in each country (except Amsterdam, maybe just 3 or 4 days there, and also it not being a country). Also want to go to the good old USSR but thats later in the future.</p>
<p>I actually might make the NZ/OZ trip this winter though so I dont get burned out from travelling, although I would prefer this be during the summer so I can snowboard in NZ (btw, amazing slopes. American slopes cannot compare, maybe CO, VT, and some canadian slopes being exceptions). Not the end of the world if I dont snowboard. Almost died the last time I did in NZ (almost fell off a cliff, long story).
I'm looking at a total of anywhere from 7k to 9k USD. Probably less since I have friends around the world where I can sleep in their place.</p>
<p>lethargytm: that's cool that you have soo many friends around the world that you can just crash at their place. i once met this kid who was traveling around the U.S. and like staying at all his friends' places for a senior thesis or whatever lol he was a senior in high school</p>
<p>7k-9k? wow. have you been saving up or are you going to borrow?</p>
<p>aulostchick: i love traveling too, but it's pretty ironic that i have flight/travel sickness lol</p>
<p>JAMAICA= mosquitoes everywhere. bring bug repellents. lots of it. the most amazing banana shakes though.
aruba was okay. resorts are nice but the towns/cities are kind of ghettoish.
i'm suprised nobody has said fiji. fiji was nice.</p>
<p>tnguyen08, some saved up, work, stocks, taking some out my loan, some parents. also have connections to the airline industry (dad was an executive for one of the airlines, he didnt make much though i think, not sure, and the airlines have connections/understanding of each others workers and give free flights or discounted flights) and going through travel companies that are geared towards college students make it cheap. i believe you can fly to any western european countries from the US for about 600-800 dollars. also having worked (internship, of course got it through my dad since i wasnt even in college then) for an airline makes it easier. also researching the interweb for cheap hostels and great deals make it even better.</p>
<p>expect to shell out atleast 5k if you plan to travel europe and go to more than 3 countries. USD dropping doesnt help either.</p>
<p>yea im fortunate to have many friends around the world. because of my dads job i had to move around every 2 1/2 to 3 years (to different countries). I moved a total of 14 or 15 times before I was 15. so that accounts for NZ/OZ and korea mostly. for switzerland, my friend has a farm/house there. Paris and London are people I met who were studying abroad. </p>
<p>and yea i love travelling, especially via flying. went around alot of places. and also free airline tickets (first or business) was also a really good perk that my dad had when he worked. I fly alot (prob 5 times a year, only around the US). its fun.</p>