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G'day Team,
+1 & I are in the early stages of planning our next 280k RTW trip, this time to M Picchu in May 2018.
Thanks to all the great advice on this forum, we have managed to tick the box on a number of destinations on the bucket list with 3 x RTWs since 2010, and Machu Picchu has now reached the top of the list, with India in second place.
We have read some great TRs including Drron's recent visit to MP and JohnM & Rooflyer's trip around Chile and Argentina, plus many others.
So the basic plan is to fly SYD-SCL-LIM-CUZ-LIM-SCL-AKL with stopovers in SCL and LIM/CUZ (most likely as a land sector in one direction).
From AKL we would take a paid return flight to SYD/CFS and then pick up our RTW by flying to Sri Lanka/India.
I've done some draft itineraries on GC Map and it's doable although it will be tight on miles and stopovers, and getting the correct flight sectors may prove critical.
I've been watching the flights to SCL for a number of weeks and while the LAN flight has reasonable availability, it goes via AKL and adds ~350 miles to the itinerary and as noted above, available miles are tight.
So today I saw 2 award seats in J on QF27 on 24 April, a week or two earlier than initially planned, but as award seats on the QF flight are like rocking horse dung, I grabbed them.
Let the games begin.
+1 & I are in the early stages of planning our next 280k RTW trip, this time to M Picchu in May 2018.
Thanks to all the great advice on this forum, we have managed to tick the box on a number of destinations on the bucket list with 3 x RTWs since 2010, and Machu Picchu has now reached the top of the list, with India in second place.
We have read some great TRs including Drron's recent visit to MP and JohnM & Rooflyer's trip around Chile and Argentina, plus many others.
So the basic plan is to fly SYD-SCL-LIM-CUZ-LIM-SCL-AKL with stopovers in SCL and LIM/CUZ (most likely as a land sector in one direction).
From AKL we would take a paid return flight to SYD/CFS and then pick up our RTW by flying to Sri Lanka/India.
I've done some draft itineraries on GC Map and it's doable although it will be tight on miles and stopovers, and getting the correct flight sectors may prove critical.
I've been watching the flights to SCL for a number of weeks and while the LAN flight has reasonable availability, it goes via AKL and adds ~350 miles to the itinerary and as noted above, available miles are tight.
So today I saw 2 award seats in J on QF27 on 24 April, a week or two earlier than initially planned, but as award seats on the QF flight are like rocking horse dung, I grabbed them.
Let the games begin.