Round the world trip?

Anyone ever considered a Round the World trip or even done one? Just before I go to University I don't want to take a gap-year but maybe 3-weeks a so off to go round the world, mostly by train.

I've pretty much got the plan roughly sorted out and I'm hoping it won't cost too much but I'm hoping for a 'experience of a lifetime', I'll probably go it alone as that's usual for round the world trips but I'm not really sure xD

Here it is anyway, I'm quite impressed with it ;)

My local train station to Leicester, train to London St Pancras. Connect to Eurostar and end up in Paris, this should take about 6-7 hours and if I leave early I should have time in Paris. Then catch a late-night sleeper train to Berlin and spend a day or two there, catch another sleeper train to Moscow which will take 2 nights, this'll go through Poland and other Eastern European countries.

Spend a day or two in Moscow and then the Trans-Siberian train via Mongolia to Beijing (China), this should take about 7-12 days and be the core of the journey. Then spend time in Beijing and catch a bullet train to Shanghai and spend another day there.

Fly over the Pacific to San Francisco, spend time there and catch a train through Seattle to Vancouver (Canada), catch a sleeper train through Canadian Mountains to Toronto, change trains in Toronto and catch another train to Montreal and spend time in each of the cities. Finally catch another train to New York, spend even more time there and then fly back to the UK.

Train is one of the best ways to see the world and easily second to flying, it's surprisingly cheap as well and from what I've read the biggest costs will be hotels by far but I've tried to choose sleepertrains.

I really hope I can do this and I don't see why not but it's still a bit of a dream :D

looks like youve got it all planned out, go for it :)

I want to go on a round the world trip, just need to convince some people to come with me :)
I may even steal your plan, you seem to have put a lot of thought into it, saves me having to do it :)

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Originally Posted by Trinity

I want to go on a round the world trip, just need to convince some people to come with me :)
I may even steal your plan, you seem to have put a lot of thought into it, saves me having to do it :)

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It's quite fun picking a journey, it's difficult getting a balance between the time of the trip, the price and whether it's over-night or not. I tried to go to the big important cities but this is still a rather brief trip as I won't be spending much time anywhere, just to see the typical tourist sites and then when I'm older I can perhaps see China in greater detail maybe. For London to Moscow there is about 6 different options, via Warsaw, Cologne, Amsterdam, Brussels or wherever you wish.

Try www.seat61.com/ for your options, I made the trip myself but I had lots of ideas from there. They do a good trip to India which also looks good and also a nice trip from London right to Singapore and then to Australia, it's amazing how far you can go from your local train-station :P

The difficulty will be booking it and getting times which work with each other but I'll have to wait a few years for that lol.

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Originally Posted by Jordy

It's quite fun picking a journey, it's difficult getting a balance between the time of the trip, the price and whether it's over-night or not. I tried to go to the big important cities but this is still a rather brief trip as I won't be spending much time anywhere, just to see the typical tourist sites and then when I'm older I can perhaps see China in greater detail maybe. For London to Moscow there is about 6 different options, via Warsaw, Cologne, Amsterdam, Brussels or wherever you wish.

Try www.seat61.com/ for your options, I made the trip myself but I had lots of ideas from there. They do a good trip to India which also looks good and also a nice trip from London right to Singapore and then to Australia, it's amazing how far you can go from your local train-station :P

The difficulty will be booking it and getting times which work with each other but I'll have to wait a few years for that lol.

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I'll have a look on that site now, thanks :)
I've decided not to use your plan now, going to plan my own. It'll be similar to yours but with more time in France and Germany (I have friends I can stay with in France and Germany), and replace China with Japan. And of course I'll have to finish it off in the greatest country in the world, Wales.

Yer i did this christmas last year.
we went from heathrow to singapore and spent a few nights there, then to cains to do some diving where we spent about 5 nights. Then went on to melbourne and spent 3 nights there. Then to aderlaide where we spent xmas day on the beach. next it was to sydney for new year to see the fire works. then to hawaii for a few nights then LA then home!

all in all it took us 4 weeks 3 days and was great fun! aswell it only cost about £4k for two of us!.
We found that it was cheaper to get round the world tickets then goto australia as it wud of cost us about £1500 just to goto each place seperatly

Nope, I can't stand really long plane flights, such as from London to Australia, that would be so many hours and stopping for fuel and everything, I'll stick to Cyprus or Turkey for holidays.

You don't have to stop for fuel they just put loads in the tank thats all

They mostly do stop off and pick up more passengers and drop some off, and I don't think the fuel tanks are big enough ;)

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Originally Posted by Jordy

the Trans-Siberian train via Mongolia to Beijing (China), this should take about 7-12 days

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A 7-12 day train ride?! I wouldn't survive!

I would love a round-the-world trip, but I've always pictured getting around by plane. :P Good plan though!