How to create the perfect itinerary for your trip. How to create a travel itinerary yourself? What is a difficult travel route?
Where does any journey begin? From packing your things, or from boarding the plane? No, in my opinion, any journey (especially a long one) begins with an idea. From making a decision - where to go, why there, what is interesting there. Let's talk about this today - how to choose a direction and plan the route of the upcoming trip.
4. Activity planning
By this stage, you have already decided on the main list of points for the upcoming route; now you need to calculate the forces. You don’t want to collapse from fatigue on the 3rd day of your trip, do you?
To make your vacation (or adventure) as rich and varied as possible, without being too exhausting, think in advance about what you are going to do on each day of your trip.
Alternate activity with relaxation and rest. This is especially important in long journey when the constant change of pictures and impressions becomes boring over time, and it’s no longer so interesting to discover new places - the brain is simply fed up with new information.
For example, when I plan a trip, I usually alternate between active exploration and beach activities.
Here, look for information about what you can do in this area - maybe only in this village you can ride elephants, swim in a waterfall, fly hot air balloon, swim with sharks or climb to some interesting observation deck.
Add more specific information to your plan, For example:
day 1 - we go to see the pyramids
day 2 - we walk around the city, go to the museum on such and such a street, then go to the park on such and such a street
day 3 - go to the beach, snorkel
day 4 - moving to the next city, etc.
If the trip is long, then you can write more general plan, For example:
city 1 - 2 weeks, active recreation, be sure to see such and such sights
city 2 - 3 days, we go on a walking trek through the jungle
city 3 - 3 days, enjoying local beaches
city 4 - 10 days, we go on an excursion, see the sights
It is advisable to plan a short trip more carefully so that it is clear what day you are doing and what you are doing. But on a long trip, I usually plan only 1-2 nearest settlements. But if I know that, for example, we won’t have Internet until the 4th city, then I plan for a longer period of time, with a reserve.
5. How to get there
One of the most important questions at the route planning stage - how you will move between points on your route.
If you don’t find out in advance how and by what means you will get there, a situation may arise when according to the map there seems to be a road, but in fact the road has been under repair for a long time, and in general public transport there isn't. You'll have to figure it out on the spot and look for other options. And if you have a clear reference to dates, then the entire route will have to be changed, so you simply won’t get to where you really wanted.
It’s clear that if you are traveling to only one city, you have round-trip tickets, you don’t plan to travel around the surrounding area, or you plan to use organized excursions, then you don’t need to think through different options for “how to get there” (except maybe how to get from the airport or train station to the hotel).
But if your route is difficult, with a large number moving, and the attractions are not in the cities themselves, but in the surrounding area, then it’s still worth thinking about moving issues in advance.
Moreover, when you are just starting to plan which cities you want to visit, it is not always clear from the map that there is a direct road between two cities. Everywhere has its own characteristics, taking into account which you will have to build the entire route. You may have to swap several cities, perhaps you decide to exclude something, because... You can only get there by transport and it takes 3 days to travel, but you planned to spend these 3 days on something else.
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