We bought our tickets!!! At least most of them. The idea is to commit to a few big flights now to save money, while leaving ourselves as much freedom as possible. So we just decided approximately how long we wanted to spend in each place, figured out the cheapest hub near the areas we wanted to visit, and booked flights on the cheapest day that week, which usually ended up being a Tuesday. Here's the flight itinerary:
Monday, January 17, 2011
Fly from Denver to Honolulu (around $300 each)
Alaska Airlines?
Tuesday, February 7, 2011
Depart Honolulu at 1:30 a.m. and arrive at Seoul at 7:20 a.m. on Feb. 8. Depart Seoul at 5:25 p.m. for Bangkok, arriving at 9:10 p.m. ($620 each)
Korean Air
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Fly from Bangkok (departing at 9:20 a.m.) to Mumbai (arriving at 6:10 p.m.), with a layover in Kolkata from 10:20 a.m. until 3:35 p.m. (THB 15,920 total, which is around $260 each)
Jet Airways
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Depart from Mumbai at 4:10 a.m. for Dar es Salaam, stopping over in Nairobi from 7:35 a.m. until 5:25 p.m. Arriving in Tanzania at 6:40 p.m. ($430 each)
Kenya Airways
Total so far: $1610 each
We still need to buy a ticket from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Frankfurt, Germany, which we've found through Yemenia Airlines for under $400 each, and we'll be doing a lot of smaller overland or roundtrip traveling (i.e. Honolulu - Kona - Honolulu, Bangkok -Cambodia - Laos - Bangkok, Dar es Salaam - Addis Ababa, Frankfurt - the rest of Europe) and then at some point we'll have to fly home from Europe, but we can worry about that later.
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