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How to Travel Around the World by Using RM1000 USD?

The definition of travel refers to go from one place to another. There are two types of travel, travel mentally and travel physically. As for travel mentally, it includes virtual reality, look at the pictures and imagine of traveling, watch TV programmers like Discovery Channel to travel mentally and tell a story of an adventure around the world. As for the physical travel, we can get a chance of traveling by getting a good corporate sponsor. So, it means that we can try to hunt for the job which enables us to work for large Multi-national Corporation. Then, we get the chance to explore the world. Besides, we can book online for free ticket, or book the air tickets during the budget airline bonanza. Moreover, we can opt for joining the group tour at a low price as well.

We categorize the world into 7 continents, which consists of Antarctica, North America, South America, Africa, Australia and Europe. Some of the continents are connected while others are separated by the water. Asia being the largest of the continents covers around one-third of the world’s total land area. Asia is known for its vast size and incomparable character. It stretches all the way east from Japan to the Southeast Arabian Peninsula, which is more than 8500 kilometers away. As for Africa is the second largest of the continents, covers around 22% of the world’s land area. The Equator intersects it and the expansive landmass covers the Sahara, which is the world’s largest desert, and the Nile, the longest river on earth, as well as 53 nations. Most of Africa is a desert region. This continent is basically divided into three regions, which are the Northern Plateau, the Central and Southern Plateau, and the Eastern Highlands .North America is around twice the size of Europe. It stretches from the vast wintry environment of the Arctic regions to the Yucatan Peninsula. America is sort of wedge shaped featuring an exceedingly irregular coastline with many prominent offshore islands, including Greenland, which is the largest island in the world. It is basically divided into five geographical regions. South America is the fourth largest continent of the world although it contains less than 12% of the world’s population. The largest forest area in the world is seen in South America. Antarctica the sixth largest of the continents is ice bound through out the year. Penguins and seals, accompanied by a few invertebrates such as mites and ticks—the only land animals that can tolerate the low temperatures, primarily inhabit it. Europe is the fifth largest of the continents. It is also conventionally known as "Europa". Europa was the daughter of Phoenix in Greek mythology. Some say it is possibly from "Ereb", a Phoenician word for sunset. Australia is the smallest of the seven continents. The interiors of the continent are predominantly plains. The Southeast and the Southwest plains are the most densely settled areas of Australia. The climate of Australia is variable, but weather extremes are rare. The Northern part of Australia has a monsoon sort of climate while in the south it is temperate.

In order to travel around the world, there must be certain requirements specify towards the travelers. As for the characteristic part, a traveler must be a brave person. It’s due to the fact that, only a brave person dare to go to explore from one place to another. Besides, traveler also needs to be a risk taker. As we know that, there will be lots of unforeseen circumstances, so if a traveler dares to take the risk, he can definitely overcome all these obstacles. Moreover, the traveler must be an independent person. When you travel yourself, you need to plan for yourself where and when to rest. A traveler can’t be too dependent on others in order to survive in others’ country where there is a difference in culture. The traveler needs to adapt himself to the new surroundings. As for the substances that a traveler needs to bring along include the money, medicine for emergency, passport which enables you to go from country to country, map or guidebook as a reference and a travel bag which contains all the necessities.

The route of a traveler may include Australia – China – Greece – Israel - Egypt-Alaska – Maui – USA – Honduras – Galapagos – Peru - Antarctica. Another popular route will be London – Los Angeles (USA) – Fiji – Cook Island [pacific island] – New Zealand – Australia – Singapore - London. The best time for traveler to travel will be during the off peak season. For those Europe countries, a traveler can get a cheaper travel during the winter time. It could cost a traveler a half to third of the price of a summer flight to get to Europe in the off season. If the travelers are afraid of the chill weather, they can consider going to South of Italy, Spain, Portugal and most of the Greece are quite balmy in winter. As for going to Egypt in Africa, the best off season to travel there will be during the summer season, which fall on 12 April to 30 Sept. For Mexico (North America), the off season will be during May to November. As for Peru (South America) country, the low season will usually be January to March. If a traveler might get a package flights, it is indeed a worth trip. Throughout the Internet research, we found out the latest timetable (2009) for traveling to Antarctica. We can choose to travel there during the low season, which fall on 9^th January 2009 to 30^th March 2009 and from 7^th November 2009 until 30 December 2009.

The expenses for traveling around the world include the expenses for food and beverage, accommodation and transportation. As for the food and beverage part, normally, traveler will just eat for bread, instant noodles and drink mineral water. As for the accommodation, it includes the expenses for staying at hotel, motel and hostel. The transportation included ship ticket, air ticket, bus ticket and train ticket.

Why must we use 1000 USD to travel around the world? It is due to the fact that we think it is a challenge for a traveler by using a least amount of money in order to go for places around the world. Besides, we want to break the record of Mr. Zhou ZhaoRui who traveled around the world by using 3000 USD. Mr. Zhou had started his journey once he completed his MBA degree. He went to nearer place, like Asia – Thailand or Philippines before making a bigger travel plans. Nothing is impossible, as long as you are persistent in doing it. Mr. Zhou mentioned that as long as you know how to make use of your mind, you can easily survive by using the least money. For example, he will just buy the local newspaper and hunt for the cheapest accommodation or train ticket in order to go from one place to another. Moreover, it is easy to save the money up to 1000 USD as well, which means that once you have collected 1000 USD you can try to travel around the world by setting a few plans before traveling. On top of that, we want to travel with 1000 USD as once we are able to turn the mission into success, we might easily gain the attention from the public, which means that we will become a popular person!

The risk and challenges that a traveler will face throughout the journey included exposed to infectious disease. This happens due to the standard of accommodation, purpose of trip and the hygiene of traveler. Besides, the traveler might suffer from mental and physical fatigue due to the tiredness of traveling around, thinking where to find a cheaper food and accommodation. If a traveler is in a bad luck, he might get robbed or lost all the important stuffs. On top of that, the most common challenge will be the communication problems. As the language differs from country to country, there will definitely be a barrier in bringing out certain message.

In that case, how can we overcome all the risks and challenges? One of the way is to contact your embassy whenever there is some problems occurs, like if you lost your passport, you might just contact the embassy officer. They will definitely lend you a helping hand as you are a foreigner. Then, you have to look after your money and possessions. One of the ways is by bringing along the traveler cheque or credit card. Besides, you can also carry a second wallet or security pouch with you, just in case one of your wallets has dropped or lost, you still have another one with you. Take a good rest before continuing your trip in order to get rid of the physical and mental fatigue. You may consider of taking a nap at the park or garden as well. In order to prevent you from getting the disease, a traveler can seek for vaccination or medication from hospital before going for the trip. Ideally, visit the doctor one or two months before your trip as most vaccines take time to become effective in your body and some vaccines must be given a series over a period of days or weeks. Normally, vaccines for traveler consist of three categories: routine recommended and required. So, it’s important for a traveler to visit the doctor ahead of time. The routine vaccinations are necessary for protection from diseases that are still common in many parts of the world. As for the recommended vaccinations, they are used to protect travelers from illness present in other parts of the world and the infectious diseases across international borders. The kinds of vaccinations needed depend on your destination, time of travel, your age, health status and previous immunization. For the vaccine required by International Health Regulations is yellow fever vaccination especially for those travels to certain countries in sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America. Last but not least, you may consider bringing along the language dictionary for your ease of understanding what others are trying to communicate.