rtw numbers: transportation

- it was a total of 16 flights (19 if you count stop overs) with 9 different airlines
22 inter city buses
15 boats/ferries
9 inter city vans
6 trains

- most expensive flight must have been from bali (indonesia) to johannesburg (south africa), with a stop over in doha (qatar).. i bought a package, so i don't know the individual prices..

- the sleeper trains in asia (and even a sleeper bus) are cheap, and very comfortable. i think the whole rocking thing helps..

- one of the best flights was actually 3 (!): brisbane - melbourne - adelaide - singapore.. i know, it was a ridiculous route, but it was all they had available.. i sat on the emergency row on the first flight (roommy!), the second flight was empty, and ond the third i watched a lot of good entertainment on the individual screen (like a movie with megan fox and an iron maiden documentary).. AND they served (good) food every couple of hours!

- my longest journey was from bali to durban:
i left the place i was staying at 8pm,
took a taxi to the airport,
waited 2 hours in line for immigration and customs,
boarded the plane 5 minutes before scheduled departing time, plane was 15 min late
stop over in singapore, waited an hour, boarded back on the same plane,
stop over in doha (qatar), waited 2 hours, boarded on a new plane,
landed in johannesburg, took a taxi to the bus station,
waited there 4 hours for the bus, then took the bus to durban,
arrived durban, took a taxi to the hostel...
> (very) long story short: door to door in 35 hours!

- i also spent my whole birthday between taxis, buses, airports and airplanes, going from durban to pretoria to johannesburg to cairo (egypt)...