When you tell people that you are planning a journey around the world, usually one of the first questions they ask is "What is your travel route?". That is usually the moment when you start name-dropping a few cities and countries. And after a while you start realizing that your journey around the world is more a journey to some selected countries you feel most attracted to. But this selection makes it unique and quite personal. Soe many possibilities, so many choices. Just like everything else in life.

In the beginning our trip had South America as it's first stop and we both got pretty excited about it. After a while we decided to reverse our travel direction (from west to east) to avoid the rainy season in Asia hereby making South America our last stop. When we decided to spend more time in Asia and Australia, we finally dropped South America from our list. So in the longterm we are already thinking about a second journey around the world that would cover South America and all the other destinations left out. But we won't tell you here about when it will happen ...