I spent all day today planning my next travel step. Thank God my friend Sveta owns a travel agency here in Saint-Petersburg. It makes everything so much easier! Still, thinking up a good trip is a lot of work. But there's no doubt it will be all worth it. So… here is the schedule:
- September 29th – a speed train will take me from Saint-Petersburg to Moscow in only 3 hours (700 km!).
- September 30th – Moscow – Cape Town, starting a 10-day tour of South Africa.
- October 9th – Johannesburg – Kuala Lumpur, for a 3-week trip all over Malaysia.
- October 29th – back to Saint-Petersburg.
This trip's kicker is that, in fact, it consists of two separate "PR Tours". A PR Tour is a promotional tour for travel professionals, during which they have to evaluate the hotels they are staying in (all 5-star mind you!), the service and the excursion programs on location, so that they can expertly recommend everything experienced to their tourists upon arriving back home. One can only imagine the level of service during such trips! Let me experience it first-hand though and report right back.
Charlene and I found a great guy in Stellenbosch, South Africa that took us to the lesser known but excellent wineries. He has a small van so the group is limited to 8 or so people. Let me know if you want his email address.
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