A HUGE fan of South America. Spending a lot of time in Argentina. six months in Buenos Aires, Patagonia, Peru, Uruguay, All the time spent in South America we have been to Antarctica, Iguazu Falls, Machu Pichu, hiked all over Patagonia, crossed the Andes from Mendoza to Sanitago, Galapagos. You will miss a lot if you skip this wonderful continent!

If you are young then don�t go to places that you will probably visit in later life.
Go to places off the beaten track that might not exist in 15-20 years.
And do something special in each place.

It's been nearly 40 years since I was there, but a couple less-visited cities in Japan that I can recommend are Nagoya and Nagasaki (you might need to take some trains, but the train ride to Nagasaki is among the most picturesque I've ever taken!). Some highlights (assuming they're still available -- remember that 40 years caveat!):

• Nagasaki: huge market with every type of store imaginable; I picked up some piano and brass quintet music there.
• Nagasaki: old Dutch Quarter, which survived the worst of the bombing. Fascinating contrast in architecture with the rebuilt part of the city.
• Nagasaki: the Peace Park, of course. One of my most memorable experiences ever was when a Japanese gentleman wanted to take a picture of his family with the Americans at the memorial.
• Nagoya: the castle. Large enough to be interesting, small enough to not take all day.
• Nagoya: the NHK tower, for a nice view of the city.
• Nagoya: the Noritake factory and museum.
• Nagoya: at least back then, no airport departure tax!

Joni Mitchell put this perfectly in the best song ever written about travelling, on one of the best albums ever made, "Amelia", from "Hejira":
For what it's worth, I'd set a viable route, leave a bit of time in each place and you can do side trips and tours, and decide as you go along. I went round the world on low cost carriers a few years ago, and had an amazing time; I have another booked in F mostly on the back of a fare nufnuf77 pointed out, from Cairo. There's a thread on it somewhere for inspiration.

Out of interest, what kind of price is a RTW in First?

Mine was �6K total. But it was a nufnuf77 special.

Wow, a lot less than expected.

How many TPs did you manage ?

I think it's about 2700 but not flown yet. The lcc one was �800 less a contribution from Wizz for an EC261 on the first flight.

OP, I really don�t want to sound rude, but are you using AI to write your replies? It really doesn�t matter if you don�t have much to say - clicking the like button is fine!

OW RTW fares are generally priced in local currency. When converted to USD or Euro can be minor or major differences depending on origin airport ~ country [10's, 100's, rarely 1000's]
The Egypt pound had a sudden significant devaluation. For a short period of time ex CAI OW RTW were very cheap in major currencies. Oneworld were (too) slow to change the base price ex CAI. Now fixed, so ex CAI not the bargain it was for a few weeks.

Sorry, but I'm literally not a bot. I'm just using AI to help improve my writing a bit since English is not my first language. I simply want to state my words in a more proper way.
It's been great learning a lot from this forum, and I really appreciate everyone's help in this thread.
Thanks everyone.

Thanks for confirming
Hope your travels go well.
But I hope this has also been a useful lesson on when not to use AI writing tools. It's fine to use them to check text and give ideas for one shot professional communications, but for personal stuff it's best not to use them. Your authentic voice, complete with any spelling and grammatical errors, is appreciated much more!

RTWs can provide the opportunity to include some quite exotic destinations at zero or negligible marginal cost (it's a more or less fixed price product.) You might see it as a way not just to hit some "bucket list" places, but to see or experience locations that would otherwise be inaccessible due to cost or logistics. Back when Lan/Latam was a Oneworld member, Easter Island was such a destination (now unreachable with Oneworld metal) but there are many other remote or unique places that are. Arctic Alaska comes to mind, or places like little-known (outside Australia) Lord Howe Island. With Fiji Airways joining the alliance soon, and with Alaska Airlines acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines, the number of Pacific island destinations will be expanded greatly. Royal Air Maroc opens numerous west African destinations that were previously difficult or impossible to reach; similarly the regional networks of carriers like Sri Lankan or Malaysian add lots of south- and southeast Asian points.

The point being, these products can be sources of inspiration for real adventure, not just a comfortable means of getting from London to Cape Town (lovely as that is.) So if your plan is to hit the road in 2025 or 2026, use the interim to study the route systems and compare that to your own travel and experience aspirations. RTWs can really be magic carpets.

This isn't a price maximization suggestion, but stopping in BSL (Basel, Switzerland) can allow you to see some really impressive museums. If you have a chance to go in June during Art Basel, you can see really impressive art installations.

I recently booked a GMP -> HND -> JFK -> EGE -> SAN -> EGE -> MIA -> EGE -> JFK -> LHR -> BSL -> LHR -> JMK -> LHR -> DOH -> ICN