Travel

Planning a route: For a long trip (word on shorter trips later), don't get too much into planning at home - just pick, depending on how much time you have, a few places and regions you want to see. What you often don't realise is that after several months...

How many countries are there? By most accounts, 195. There are 192 members of the United Nations. Therefore the number 192 is too often used to represent the number of countries in the world. There are 61 dependent areas, and six disputed territories...

Useful planning guidebooks can be found at
http://www.travelindependent.info/books_planning.htm
Guidebooks by themselves with all their practical information, are not so good in the original planning stage. The Let's Go series are among the best guidebooks in the planning stage....

Planning a route: For a long trip (word on shorter trips later), don't get too much into planning at home - just pick, depending on how much time you have, a few places and regions you want to see. What you often don't realise is that after several months...