Round the world trip?

[JackBuddy]

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

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

Almost got a 6 week one organised, there are loads of cheap gapyear/summer holiday companies out there. Hoping to travel South America. Wouldn't really wanna go to North America though- i'd rather spend money to visit somewhere cultural lol

[PaintYourTarget]

Two of my Uni choices involve years abroad. One in Northern America and the other in China, so I was planning that if I got accepted onto one of those, I'd spend the out of term time sightseeing in the regions.

It's a bit of a tiring plan mate, you might want to think of like, backpacking it (don't think you want to be lugging suitcases around if your sightseeing), and finding somewhere to stop for a week to get a decent shower, wash, catch up on sleep etc.

[partie2]

There is some companies ive been looking at that do packages where you fly to about 10 different locations for around £1500

[Trinity]

There is some companies ive been looking at that do packages where you fly to about 10 different locations for around £1500

Links?