Introduction

Having a gap year was always something I was going to do, and I was always going to go with my friend Lulu. School ended, and the reality drew nearer that we should really plan where we were going to go, so off we went to STA travel. We sat down with a young, student type man and he asked us the simplest yet most daunting question: "where would you like to go?" Being only 18, we sheepishly responded with our lack of knowledge, and in a very nonchalant way he made us look at a World map and simply point out all the countries that we would like to visit. After an hour of unnecessary questions and concerns, we left the travel agents with pride and a list of countries we will visit: Tanzania, South Africa, New Zealand, Fiji and Australia.