I’m a 21 year old female about to be finished college, it’s always been a dream for me and my boyfriend to travel, we are planning a huge intinary in a few months but I need help deciding what we should do.

So we were thinking of backing through Southeast Asia for 6 months, the Philippines for 2 months, Australia for 5 weeks, New Zealand for 5 weeks then an African safari for 1-2 months. This would be approximately a year trip, we want to do it as budget friendly as possible staying in hostels and work exchanges.

We also have our heart set on travelling through South America for 6 months and renting a van through Europe for 6 months

My question is, do you think we should go to South America after africa? Then go home and do Europe when we’re older?

Or

Keep the intaniry how it is, and do 6 months of South America and 6 months of Europe together at a later time?

We’ll be giving up our apartment for this trip so we want to make the most out of it, however it’s our first time doing a big time backpacking trip so adding South America would make it about 16 months, I just want to know from other people who have have travelled a long time if you think it would feel to “long”. We really want to enjoy and immerse ourselves in the different traditions and cultures and I’m worried about getting burnt out from the constant moving.

The only downside about waiting to do South America with Europe is, life happens. It will be harder for us In the future to take a whole year to travel, right now we have the funds, no kids, no mortgage or any huge responsibilities.

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