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Posted by: Hawaii traveller on 2010-03-04, 13:15:36
Hey, I just want to say: GO FOR IT! I was in almost the same position as you are. I was 21, girl and like you didn't have any friends that have time to go when I could and wanted to. I decided to take a year off, work for half a year and travel for the money I saved for half a year. I was lucky with the job and earned quite a lot, so I had the chance to jump on a couple of short group trips along the way, but that was just "extras ". My travel route was: Home-Malaysia-Australia-New Zealand-Fiji-LA-Guatemala- "GAP Volcano trail(18 days)-Costa Rica-Equador-Galapagos(group)-Peru-Brazil-Home. You might notice that I gave a little though to where I travelled alone. Malaysia, NZ, Aussie, Fiji and LA are easy. Most importantly they speak English, but they are also fairly safe countries and fairly easy to travel in. Central America was different: That was my first meet with Latin America, and I don't speak spanish. This was a place that I said I'm not going unless I have some travel buddies, so I joined a group (great by the way). Having been in the group, I caught up on the culture, learned some spanish phrases and felt a bit more confident when I arrived in Equador, and so on... The most important thing is to stay at dorms when you can. The hostels usually have kitchen facilities and both while in the dorm and while cooking you meet a lot of people. I usually ended up meeting someone that I hung out with in that town and more often than not, we travelled together for a longer or shorter period of time. I was seldom alone except for on the long intercontinental plane rides that was prebooked from home. To sum up: Don't be shy about talking to people, think a little about where you are going and what you are eating (don't want to have food poisoning when there is noone to take care of you on the bus trips etc.), and try to join up with people if you want to go out at nighttime for eating/ clubbing etc. Do this, and you will be fine on your own!! Have a good trip! |
