The Big Trip: Your Ultimate Guide to Gap Years & Overseas Adventures (Lonely Planet the Big Trip: Your Ultimate Guide to Gap Years & Overseas Adventures)

__Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher\*__ So, you know you want to experience that ultimate overseas adventure - but where do you start? Right here, with the one-stop guide to planning the trip of a lifetime. **The Big Trip** is your ultimate guide to gap years and overseas adventures. * Essential pre-trip planning: health, safety, kit costs, tickets, etc * Volunteering and working abroad: from fruit picking to teaching, yacht-crewing and au pairing * Regional overviews, maps and a diverse range of road-tested itineraries * Tips and stories from travellers and experts * Comprehensive directory of essential resources **Authors:** Written and researched by Lonely Planet, George Dunford, Matthew Firestone, Anthony Ham, Vivek Wagle, Jenny Walker **About Lonely Planet:** Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel. __TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2012 and 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category__ __'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times__ __'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)__ __\*#1 in the world market share - source: Nielsen Bookscan. Australia, UK and USA. March 2012-January 2013__

So, you know you want to experience that ultimate overseas adventure – but where do you start? Right here, with the one-stop guide to planning the trip of a lifetime. Try these ideas on for size:

Swim with dolphins off the coast of New Zealand Learn Spanish in Guatemala Teach children English in Ghana Work your way around the UK’s best bars Tend orphan elephants in Sri Lanka Get soaking in Thailand’s Songkran water festival Be the first in your family to go around the world

The Big Trip Is Your Ticket To All This And More

Essential pre-trip planning: health, safety, kit, costs, tickets, etc Volunteering and working abroad: from fruit picking to teaching, yacht-crewing and au pairing Regional overviews, maps and a diverse range of road-tested itineraries Tips and stories from travelers and experts Comprehensive directory of essential resources

So, you know you want to experience that ultimate overseas adventure but where do you start? Right here, with the one-stop guide to planning the trip of a lifetime. Try these ideas on for size: Swim with dolphins off the coast of New Zealand Learn Spanish in Guatemala Teach children English in Ghana Work your way around the UK 's best bars Tend orphan elephants in Sri Lanka Get soaking in Thailand 's Songkran water festival Be the first in your family to go around the world The Big Trip Is Your Ticket To All This And More Essential pre-trip planning: health, safety, kit, costs, tickets, etc Volunteering and working abroad: from fruit picking to teaching, yacht-crewing and au pairing Regional overviews, maps and a diverse range of road-tested itineraries Tips and stories from travelers and experts Comprehensive directory of essential resources Aimed at 18 to 25 year olds planning a significant overseas trip, perhaps working or volunteering along the way. Contains essential information on pre-trip planning, plus detailed destination overviews and suggested itineraries. Special eBook enhancements Scalable maps – enabling you to zoom in for greater detail Comprehensive interlinking – enabling you to seamlessly flip between pages, jump between maps and reviews, or visit the websites of places we recommend Search – go straight to what you are looking for with the inbuilt search capability Add notes – touch a word to add notes and personalize your guidebook Bookmark – use bookmarks to quickly return to a page Dictionary – look up the meaning of any word Plus pinch and zoom images and scalable font size Guides and instructs readers on preparing for overseas travel, with information on volunteer organizations, job opportunities for international travelers, education courses, and foreign festivals