12 months 12 trips - Where would you go?

[Jay.]

If you were to plan to visit a new place each month of next year where would you go?

Planning around festivals and best time to visit is the great part of this. Here's what i would like to do so far, starting Nov:

Nov: Kite surfing and Scuba Diving - Sharm El Sheikh - Lack of tourists, nice mild weather.

December: Rock Climbing - Krabi Thailand, Travel Northern Thailand - OK weather timing.

Jan: Aussie Millions Trip - Hong Kong, Melbourne, Gold Coast, Cairns, Singapore - Timed around Aussie Million

Feb: Skiing in Europe - Season.

March: Scuba Dive Africa - Good time to see most of the summer sharks.

April: Spanish GP Formula 1 - Barcelona

May: Party Poker Cruise - Timed around that.

June: Iceland - Hiking, Glacier Tour, World's hottest women. - Summer time more daylight.

July: Vegas - WSOP and world series of spearmint rhino.

August: Hiking Switzerland - Late summer, dry.

October: oktoberfest - Munich - Still never been.

I feel with a New Orleans type music festival in there or a Brazilian Mardi Gras that would be ideal for me.

And after reading the Irieguy trip report i feel like i should replace one of these with sailing around the Greek Islands.

So where would your ideal year of vacations be? Anyone know of any websites to search travel by months? Any single months suggestion?

[ImsaKidd]

I'm not sure when the running of the bulls is but I think that would be interesting.

You would also need to replace the GP formula 1 trip (unless you wanted to do spain twice)

[GBP04]

is all the money provided for me? I have to think about this one

[milliondollaz]

Rugby Sevens in Hong Kong.

March 28th - 30th 2008.

Carnival in Rio

Feb 2nd - 5th 2008.

World Cup 2010 in South Africa

July 11, 2010 (final i think)

[MissT74]

Don't forget the 2008 Olympics in Bejing.

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[Maulik]

I've yet to go on a Safari, take some time and do some research. Perhaps we'll be fortunate and one will chime in with a trip report.

[xxThe_Lebowskixx]

you are going to spend a fortune on plane tickets but it seems pretty cool.

[Ballzack]

If you want to do a music fest in New Orleans, Jazz Fest is the only real choice. Last weekend in April and first weekend in May.

By the way....the bulk of oktoberfest is in September. Only a few days in October.

[MicroBob]

New Orleans Jazz Fest kind of sucks at the fairgrounds imo.
Although the weather really wasn't that great when we went and since some of the speakers weren't working we were left even more disappointed.

The food at the jazz-fest that draws some raves wasn't that worthwhile either.

Enjoyed hitting up some of the smaller places in New Orleans during the evening though and always love New Orleans in general.

Have done Mardi Gras in New Orleans several times and that's always fun.
Would very much like to check out Carnival in Rio.

For 12 different trips in 12 months I might throw in a couple of slightly more obscure ones in there such as swinging up to Alaska or Sweden during the best Northern Lights times which I think might be Dec/Jan.
I've been to Alaska at I think it was in Feb but the lights were only so-so when I was there.

Would have to think more on this to come up with 12.

[ImsaKidd]

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I've yet to go on a Safari, take some time and do some research. Perhaps we'll be fortunate and one will chime in with a trip report.

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My mom climbed Mount Kilimanjaro a few years back. I'm sure she'll chime in shortly since I posted in this thread.