This past week has been busy with final preparations for the trip: booking ground transportation, planning fun excursions, restaurant reservations, etc. We’re getting excited! It’s hard to believe that we’ve been planning this trip for almost a year now…

One thing that makes our trip unique is that we booked using Round the World (RTW) tickets. Every major airline alliance offers these, and they can be an inexpensive way to visit many locations across different continents in a single trip. Booking a RTW ticket does have some associated restrictions, though:

• Must fly continuously in one direction around the world (East or West; we chose East)
• Limited number of stops (six, in our case)
• Can only fly on partner airlines (we’re on Delta’s SkyTeam)

We also imposed our own rule when selecting stops: neither of us could have visited before.

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