Hey tuge, nice to hear about your plans. 6 months is a good amount of time to get around there. I have a some what similar situation so I might be able to help.
I left last Oct from Calgary on a RTW ticket. The price was about $4000. My flight consisted of:
Calgary
Fiji
Auckland-Overland-Christchurch
Sydney
Bangkok
Osaka-overland-Tokyo
Shanghai
Frankfurt
I could have jammed a few more flights in with my deal expecially in SEA but it kind of defeats the purpose of travel when you just fly from city to city. Most of mine is over land. Currently I'm in Lao right now after about a month and a half in Thailand. I'm not doing any of the Phillipines, Malaysia, Indo, etc but I do have several travellers I'm in touch with that are there right now.
You've got kind of a tough situation with your flights because with separate flights or a RTW your going to be throwing down a lot of cash. You might be able to get away with songle flights here and there for cheaper but it's really hard to tell until your doing it. On the other hand RTW tickets make it tough sometime to go from point A to point B overland because they force you to use certain airlines that might not fly into specific cities. Put down a rough itinerary of where you migh fly in and out of and then see what airline go in and out of those cities.....I know it's tedious.Also keep in mind that once your into SEA most of it will be over land..if you want to actually see the countries.
I gotta go but let me know if you have a question and I'll try and get back.
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Where I've been: Canada, United States, Mexico, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Phillipines, Japan, China, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, England.
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