A round the world tour is a Voyage consisting in traversing completely and in a direction given the Globe until returning to its starting point. It is not generally considered that as a voyage to relatively weak Latitude S of west in is or conversely.

The first man to have carried out a round the world tour would be Enrique of Malacca, Esclave and interprets Ferdinand Magellan.

With its continuation, many navigator S carried out their round the world tour with the veil with for objective the Exploration of the Planet. These Expédition S bears the particular name of Circumnavigation S.

As from the XIXe century

Since the middle of the 19th century, the round the world tours lost of their scientific range to be of a sporting nature more or tourist. Carried out with feet or using new means of transport like the Bicycle, the Automobile , the Boat or the Plane, they become more than ever symbols of the control Technique of the man on his Environnement, in particular when they take the form of speed records popularized by Jules Verne. They can then be the occasion of an advertizing promotion for the manufacturer of the Means of transport used or for the convinced Sponsor S.

On a more modest scale, the round the world tour takes especially the value of an initiatory experiment. In Australia, in particular, the social structures encourage the Jeunesse strongly to begin in a voyage until in Europe while passing by the America or the Asia at least once before entering on the job market. It is also a prestigious voyage (standard Concorde) for the easiest people, it is carried out on a cultural topic (architecture, painting…) or commercial (hotels, golfs…).

Some famous round the world tours

How to prepare its Round the world tour

A project of Round the world tour requires an important preparation which can last up to 1 year before the starting date. There exist several ways of doing a Round the world tour according to its budget, of its means of transport (with foot, in bicycle, in car, by boat or plane…) or of the people with whom one carries it out (as a recluse, couple, between friends, with children).

Whatever the manner of carrying out a round the world tour, it is necessary to manage before the departure the following aspects:

  • Administratif starting > to prevent its center of the taxes for the declaration of the year to come, its usual interlocutors, to give the notice for its appartemement if tenant, cancellation EDF and telecommunications, other services of the daily life.

  • Administrative of voyage > validity of its passport more than 6 months after the date of expected return, visas necessary in advance or coordoonnées of the embassies to on the spot make the request, list with coordinates of the French embassies in the countries envisaged.
  • Health > general Checkup, dentist, vaccines, case of first aid, pharmacy.
  • Plane ticket > if the route is complicated, or the number of countries to be visited important, better is worth to validate the state of the air links and the costs before leaving.
  • Assurance travels > health, repatriation, luggage, electronic material.
  • Money > international Bank card, Species or accounts - travellers' checks. It is advised to have the 3 in order to be able to recover money absolutely everywhere.
  • Communication travels from there > to create a specific address email (to avoid the spam of its principal address while connecting itself in cybercafés), or a blog of voyage in order to keep contact with its family and her friends. Even at the fine bottom of the bush, there exist from now on computers with Internet!
  • Guides of voyage > To carry the French guides of the first countries, and to buy or exchange the others in the course of road. The guides of voyage easiest to find since the foreigner are the Lonely Planet in English.

Transport

The majority of alliances of airline companies (mainly SkyTeam, Star Alliance, Oneworld) propose air tickets round the world tour or steps making it possible to accomplish several international flights (from 5 to 15 in general) under conditions: 1 only authorized transatlantic flight and it is necessary to return to its starting point. The validity of these Air Steps is in general of 1 year and their rather reasonable price (approximately 3000 Euros for an Air Step of 12 international flights). The choice of the alliance with which to buy the Step, will be determined by the countries to visit. It is recommended to buy the Step with a credit card, in order to profit from the insurances repatriation and loss from baggages.

Insurances

The insurances included/understood with the credit cards deal with only displacements of which the duration is lower than 90 days. It is thus often necessary to subscribe to complementary insurances (in general 1500 Euros/year) or to check that its contract of automobile Assurance does not cover displacements abroad for a longer duration (it is better in this case, to maintain its contract automobile insurance at least in order to profit from the medical insurance and repatriation integrated into this contract).

Lodging

There exist various types of Hébergement cheap to see free in almost all the countries. Among cheap lodgings, appear the inns of youth which, contrary to their name, accommodate travellers of any age. To be given interesting tariffs in the inns of youth, it is preferable, before leaving, taking the international chart of the inns of youth (a few tens of euros). Certain inns of youth have of individual rooms, rooms couples or rooms family. All give access a kitchen to prepare its meal.

It can be interesting before starting from adhere to an association voluntary Hôte which free on their premises accommodate travellers of the whole world, for 1 night or 2. These associations provide for each country which one wishes to visit, the list of the hosts wishing to receive travellers on their premises. Are mentioned on this list, in which district the host lives, which are its centers of interest, which profile of traveller wishes T it to lodge. These communities have Internet sites which make it possible to directly put in contact supply and:

  • Couchsurfing.com
  • Hospitalityclub.org
  • Stay4free.com
  • Place2stay.net
  • Globalfreeloaders.com

It can be interesting, even if one chooses to place oneself with the Hôtel during his round the world tour, to adhere to this type of association in order to have a contact in the countries which one visits if one needs for information or in the event of large pip.

See the article Service of lodging.

One can note the case of the international auxiliary language Esperanto and of the service Pasporta Servo. Esperanto is a built Langue with an aim of allowing to the men whole ground of being able to include itself/understand. If English is the most practical language for the airports, the speakers privilege Esperanto to go to the meeting of the other and its habits. Several people made the round the world tour thanks to this language, being made help by associatons local esperantists. The Pasporta servo is particularly known and indexes all the potential hosts on all the continents. The conditions to be lodged are to speak this language and to have the directory of the year or to be also ready to accommodate travellers.

See the articles Esperanto and Pasporta Servo.

Some sites of tourdumondists

  • Round the world tour Stopover Plunged - 2006 - Voyage 6 months to discovered most exotic spots of diving and most strange of the world
  • Blog of a Round the world tour of 1 year carried out by Ludovic, to live reality with the daily newspaper of a voyage as routard on the 5 continents - 2005/2006 - detailed Account and of many photographs and vidéos
  • Let us turn Together: 14mois - 2002/2003
  • Around The World: A couple, Patricia and André, 4 years (or more) Around the World in the Motor home - 2004/2008
  • Christophe Bonnat and Antoine of Fontenay, 24.000 km with bicycle, 1999-2000

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