Originally Posted by GibSpmuh
In regards to Australia, I'd recommend PER-AYQ-SYD over PER-ASP-SYD. Uluru is spectacular and not to be missed,
Depending on your interests it might be worth continuing on from AYQ to CNS before SYD as well (again, there's direct flights from AYQ-CNS).
In South America there's flights available on Lan Peru from LIM-GRU now as well, if you're wanting to get from Lima to Brazil before heading down to Argentina, but unfortunately nothing that carries all the way through to Rio.
Keep in mind also that the rules now let you travel through the point of origin as part of the RTW ticket (though you're only able to leave the country once). So if you had a domestic UK destination you wanted to include as a second stopover in the continent of origin to enjoy at a later date, you can do that as well.
Brilliant - thanks so much - that's exactly the sort of suggestion i needed. Suitably amended my Australian trip with both suggestions.
South America, well with a bit of fiddling about I reckon this works well....
SCL - IPC - SCL // LIM - SCL - GIG // EZE.
this way I get two excellent sounding overland segements, and can take in Sao Paulo on the way. Should get quite used to Santiago too.
Yeah - the land segment button on the Route Planner messes up btw - try adding 4 land segments
i.e. SCL // LIM // GIG // GRU // EZE
and no flights - it'll tell you you've used up your allocation, despite the fact you could have just gone straight from SCL // EZE.
Thanks again - all sorted! It's telling me EZE - BCN is a 2 segment thing, but I looks like a direct flight, so I'm sure its OK. Now to book....
Ray