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Título original: The Big Trip Año: 2019 Duración: 90 min. País: Rusia Dirección: Natalia Nilova Guión: Billy Frolick Fotografía: Animation Reparto: Animation Productora: Coproducción Rusia-Estados Unidos; Hollywood Licensing Group [Hong Kong] / Licensing Brands. Distribuida por: Front Row Filmed Entertainment / Hollywood Licensing Group [Hong Kong]

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The Big Trip: Your Ultimate Guide to Gap Years and Overseas Adventures

Lonely Planet, a well-known publisher of world-wide travel guides, has done it again with their creation of The Big Trip. The book focuses on anyone planning on taking a gap year(s) but is also so jam packed with information that anyone travelling overseas could consider it their Bible. The book covers so many areas of concern from money planning to tailoring your trip to fit your specified needs. It is beautifully illustrated and really makes a big deal out of the idea of a first trip overseas. If you aren’t sure just yet where you plan to spend your time, Lonely Planet’s The Big Trip can help you narrow down your decision through a comprehensive explanation of places well-known to the world but also hidden gems that are less travelled. The book was created to give the tools one needs to set forth on a quest for personal growth while with every flip of a page making it seem less daunting to take that first step. Overall the book was created to help the average person prepare for the trip of a lifetime, with no shortage of information to put even the most nervous traveler at ease. This comprehensive, user-friendly guide is filled with a plethora of the best travel advice that anyone would need to take the adventure of a lifetime.

The book begins like any other with an introduction about why one should travel and create new experiences, reasons to potentially not travel and witty ways to use the book, such as a pillow if necessary or even toilet paper if you just can’t seem to find any. This book really gets the point across that travelling should be about experiences and collecting stories rather than sitting on the couch watching others take these grand leaps. Nothing is comparable to seeing something in person and the introduction really helps make this clear. The Big Trip’s first section of the book is called “Travel Smarts” which sounds pretty self-explanatory from the title. This part of the book goes in depth with regard to money planning before you leave, especially with regard to where you’ll be travelling as some part of the world are more expensive than others. There is also a comprehensive list of paperwork that should be filled out and procured before the “big trip” takes place such as leaving copies of your passport and health insurance with trusted family members or friends back home. Part one also contains a subsection called “Being a Good Traveler” which goes into depth about respecting the communities and cultures one will be visiting during their time in other countries regardless of the amount of time spent there. Next, we move into the second part of this travel guide which is titled “Tailoring Your Trip.” This begs the questions of who will you be travelling with, are you travelling with children on a leisurely vacation, or are you backpacking alone or with one other person? These questions can drastically change where you will be going on your big trip and can either decide your locations for you quite quickly or leave room for spontaneity and indecision. This travel guide also helps give many options as to work while abroad for extended periods of time as there is no way to guarantee a continuous cash flow while traveling abroad for months or even years at a time. One could become an au pair to a cute little family in the heart of Paris or work at a pizzeria somewhere in a remote town in Italy. The reader might be more interested in traveling to volunteer in which case housing would be provided and you would not need to worry as much about where to find yourself next. The book also talks about every kind of accommodation from staying in a 5 star hotel to a hostel. Part two even contains a subsection on traveling throughout the festival circuit in not just Europe but remote parts of the world as well that would send any festival junkie into overdrive.

Part three is solely dedicated to where the heck you are going! In “Where To Go” the reader gets a detailed description of every continent in the world, not skipping a beat. Europe, North and South America, The Middle East, Russia and so much more is covered in this section through detailed maps and accounts of what is a must see in each region. The detailed maps even include “round-the-world” routes that are extremely helpful to anyone trying to connect these regions together and decide which are the easiest ways to get to everywhere they want. This section, as well as many others throughout the book contains first-person accounts of travel experiences from those who contributed to writing The Big Trip which sure helps first time travelers to see that anything is possible in the realm of travel. Section four is the “Directories Chapter” in which the writers from Lonely Planet give many useful resources and contact information for organizations that could make your time travelling abroad that much easier. The best part comes along in the bonus section titled “20 Big Trip Experiences” where the authors of The Big Trip hand-picked their favorite adventures and regions from around the world to share with their readers. These action packed adventures range anywhere from spotting wildlife on the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador to hiking to the Iguazu Falls located in Argentina. A new or even experienced traveler could take any one of these adventures or draw inspiration from them and create an entirely new adventure. Regardless the decision, The Big Trip is absolutely perfect for anyone planning a trip to somewhere new.