Mild Modifications

It's funny how countries that are the so called "Land of the Free" turn out to be the land-of-the-locked-up-petty-and-hypocrytical. Because we want to visit Cuba, we have to do it from a jumping point other that the USA as they have a travel embargo (it's currently illegal for US citizens to visit Cuba and a fine of $20k can be incurred). Not only that, we can't have Cuba on our round the world ticket as if we do that, we can't take any flights with American Airlines and there's more - we will probably encounter hassle in the US if we have Cuban stamps on our passports so we have to avoid that....Jeez!

So, the new plan is to get from Salvador to Miami and then Miami to the Dominican Republic, then to Havana, then to the Bahamas and then back to Miami as a wee "we didn't go to Cuba, honestly guv." Carribean Adventure. We also need to consider our Chinese visas as the original plan was Vietnam-China-Hong Kong-China-Japan-China-Mongolia. The problem there is that you can get single entry or double entry(!) visas to China but a third entry (!!) would likely be a problem and we're not sure if going to HK counts as leaving China. If anyone knows please let us know. Looks like we may fly from HK to Japan instead as it'll just make life easier - it's all the same to us really.

So, that all means that the new, improved, get-your-clothes-whiter-than-white route is....

Peru
Brazil
Dominican Republic (via Miami)
Cuba
Nassau
USA (East Coast)
Canada
USA (West Coast)
Hawaii
New Zealand
Singapore
Malaysia
Thailand
Cambodia
Vietnam
China
Hong Kong
Japan
China (again)
Mongolia (Trans Mongolian Express)
Russia (Trans Mongolian Express)

Quotes should come through from the various ticket providers over the next couple of weeks. The Carribean adventure will have to be a separate purchase so if anyone knows about cheap flights round the Carribean islands let us know (American Airlines can get us to and from Miami for not much cash.).


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