Originally Posted by quiet

lonely planet and a plane ticket is always the way i roll. 4 weeks or 6 months, i stopped trying to plan long trips a long, long time ago. Russia, Eastern Europe, S.E. Asia (pretty much all of it), Africa, etc, etc. The only place i thought you really needed a semi-guided tour was in Argentina where i go snowboarding in the summers, because you really need to have you act together as it's expensive and you are on a definite timeline.

typical senario (i'm usually traveling with my cousin and my girl). get off boat or plane. find a place to get a drink. crack open lonely planet. go from there. rinse and repeat lol.