Believe us, you won't regret it!

Learn a new language while traveling

After traveling 9 months through China and Southeast Asia, we were tired of not being able to talk to the locals (or only in English with people who wanted to try to sell us stuff;) ). So once we arrived on the South American continent, we decided to take the time to learn a little Spanish in order to have more contact with the locals. This decision was certainly one of the best of our round the world trip and changed a lot of things for the rest of our trip.

There are 2 ways to learn a language during a round the world trip:

1. 
   You can learn by using a web service (site, application etc...) like Mosalingua. This will allow you to learn at your own pace during the trip on your computer or smartphone.
   
2. 
   You could stop at a place to take language classes for a few weeks. For example, we rented an apartment in Quito for 2 months to take Spanish classes for 8 weeks. It allowed us to rest a little, get back to a pleasant routine for a while and above all to learn very quickly a solid base of Spanish that was very useful for the rest of our trip. We can only recommend it!
   

You will see that once you can speak a little bit of the language of the country in which you are travelling, the experience will be completely different.

during our spanish classes in Ecuador

Work and travel

Working around the world can also be a great way to finance or extend your trip. For example, many travellers take advantage of the fact that you can earn a lot of money in Australia to fill the bank account between Asia and South America. But of course with digitalization there is a growing list of jobs that allow you to travel while working a little. And as we are nice, we have prepared a small non-exhaustive list of jobs that allow you to travel right here.

Doing Laundry

We left for our trip full of good intentions with our multifunctional soap that could clean us as much as our clothes. So we certainly used this soap, but only once on our clothes ;). The thing is that there are so many cleaning services or washing machines available in the Guesthouse that we did our laundry by hand only once in the whole trip!

Obviously maybe you will have more courage than us but as far as we are concerned, we didn't last long with the laundry in hand and we chose the 100% lazy option;)