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Old 01-18-2007, 06:53 PM   #1 (permalink)
KnifeMissile
 
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Help me plan my world tour!

Okay, so I've found myself with some free time so I'm planning on doing a world tour! There are many aspects to this tour but, mostly, it's a tour of very large and highly dense cities. I have a thing for intense urbanization and enjoy seeing how society deals with too many people living in the same place at the same time. The current itinerary is:

New York
Montreal
London
Hong Kong
Tokyo
Vancouver
Calgary

...and I need to fit Las Vegas in there, somehow.

My question is pretty general. Does anyone have any suggestions regarding my tour? Is there anything I should know when travelling?

My list is a little light between Europe and Asia so if there's some city in there that fits with my theme, please, do mention it!

Also, I'm sure there are many considerations I haven't thought through. For instance, I took it for granted that Tokyo (and any city) would have a 24/7 transit system but it turns out that the transit system does, indeed, close and rather early, too. Cabs are also ludicrously expensive in Japan. So much so that it's often cheaper to just rent a hotel room than take a taxi back home. Japanese internet cafes are filled with sleeping people who couldn't (or wouldnt') make it back to the subway in time. This is good to know or I could have ended up stranded in some remote part of town in the middle of the night.

I'm not sure how to plan for such a trip. There are those who think I should just visit the nearest travel agent and tell them what I want to do. I'm also told that there's a kind of "frequent flyer pass," that will allow you to spontaneously travel from airport to airport for a limited time. Has anyone heard of such a thing?

So, any comments or questions are welcome! I'm a little anxious about such an endevour but I love travelling and I will not likely get another chance to do this so it's kind of now or never!

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