Get that lie out of your mind! If your college days are over, that is NOT the end of your life! And if you're still in the "adventure age", you might want to think about taking a few trips now, but postponing your trip around the globe for a few years: there are a number of specific benefits of doing so.

My parents' friends took their young teenagers around the world for nine months! They visited all kinds of exotic countries, and even joined organized events like "spend two weeks with Chinese farmers and learn what their life is all about".

Why is it a good idea to travel the world with your kids?

1. You will have much more money available because you've been working a number years.
2. Your children learn much more than they could ever get from the text books in school.
3. Your family will become a more closely-knit unit than you could ever imagine.
4. You are more healthy and fit for traveling than after retirement.
5. When you are old, you do not need to tell those "when I was young" stories about your travel adventures, that your children find inspiring but also difficult to relate to.

But aren't there a lot of practical problems? I mean, what about my job?

If you've worked for more than 10 years, you can take a break and find a new job when you return.

Where do I get the money?

If you need to keep working just to make ends meet, you are living in luxury and / or your house is too big. (Of course, some people are not highly educated and work poorly paid jobs. In that case, it really is difficult to get out and travel the world - though hopefully not impossible).

My children can't just quit school...

Sure they can! There are good correspondence school programmes available. Just make sure they do all their homework and send in their tests on time!

The bottom line is: There is life after marriage! The adventure is not over yet! Take your family around the world, because it will be one of the most rewarding activities of your life.

Let's start from the “Cradle of humankind” - Africa.

1. Table Mountain, South Africa

   
   
   The sandstone layers of South Africa's Table Mountain were laid down 300 million years ago. Overtime, the sand hardened into rock and was uplifted without folding, so its layers are still horizontal. Erosion has worn away everything but the distinctive table rock that remains. Table Mountain rises 3,566 ft. (1,087 m) above Cape Town.

2. Ahaggar Mountains, Algeria

   
   
   From the desolate Sahara desert plain rise the majestic Ahaggar Mountains. The tallest of these spiny peaks is about 9,840 ft. (3,000 m) high. The mountains are made of igneous rocks - granites and lavas including phonolite. Phonolite, meaning “sound stone,” is so called because when it is hit with a hammer, it gives off a musical note. The phonolite cooled and cracked into long, thin shapes that give the Ahaggars their ribbed surface. Now let's proceed to the largest continent - Asia.

3. Guilin Hills, China

   
   
   Over hundreds of millions of years, the limestone in the hills of Guilin has been slowly dissolved by rain, creating a landscape called tower of karts. The flat lands at the bottoms of the hills, covered by rice paddy fields, are layered with vast amounts of clay washed away with the limestone. Rivers snake their way around these strange, weathered remains.

4. Mount Fuji, Japan

   
   
   The majestic snow-capped volcano Mount Fuji is 12,388 ft. (3,776 m) high. The volcano has been active for thousands of years. When it last erupted in 1707, black ash fell in the streets of Tokyo, 62 miles (100 km) away. Its name comes from “fuchi,” which means fire, a word of the Ainu, the original people of the Japanese islands. Fuji is a sacred place of pilgrimage. Thousands of people each year climb the mountain to watch the sun rise. From Asia we'll go to the land down under - Australia.

5. The Olgas, Australia

   
   
   Resembling huge red rock haystacks, the Olgas (or Kata Tjuta - meaning many heads to the Australian Aborigines) are clustered on the sandy Australian plains. The plain is covered with regolith - rock-sand and clay weathered from the underlying solid rocks. Erosion does not remove the regolith, so overtime it gets thicker, until it is burying all but the highest points of the underlying solid rock. These island mountains are called inselbergs. Uluru (formerly Ayers Rock) is another example. From land down under let's go to the land of beautiful people - South America.

6. The Pantanal, Brazil

   
   
   In the back country of Brazil, seasonal rainfall in the mountains feeds mighty rivers. Where these rivers travel over the level swamplands of the Pantanal, they spread out, flooding the land. When the rains stop, hundred of shallow pools are left behind. The swamps cover an area the size of Great Britain.

7. Angel Falls, Venezuela

   
   
   The waterfall with the longest drop in the world tumbles 3,212 ft. (979 m) off the wet swamplands of a plateau called Auyan Tepui in Venezuela. It is named after the pilot Jimmy Angel, the first outsider to see the falls in 1935. The water changes into white mist before reaching the bottom. From south, let's move to the north, the third largest continent - North America.

8. Bryce Canyon, Utah

   
   
   The Hoodoos (from African word meaning “spirit”) of Bryce canyon are a mass of pinnacles sculpted from layers of soft young rock. The canyon's pink-orange limestone is sediment that collected in a lake 60 million years ago. The attack of wind, snow, and rain has worn the rocks into colorful hoodoos.

9. Monument Valley, Utah/Arizona

   
   
   The large mesas and smaller buttes that tower over Monument Valley are isolated flat-topped mountains, made of horizontal layers of sedimentary rock. Over hundreds of thousands of years they have worn away, leaving behind tall towers of rock.

10. Canadian Tundra, Canada

    
    
    In summer, soggy plains stretch in all directions in the Arctic regions of northern Canada and Siberia. Below the surface the ground is permanently frozen, so the summer melt water has nowhere to go and collects in swampy pools. At the end of the summer these pools of water freeze again. When water just beneath the surface expands to form ice, it may push the soil up into small domes called pingoes.

INDIA

In India, there are no Big Macs because the Hindu people don't eat beef.

However, they have the Maharaja Mac, which is a Big Mac made of lamb or chicken meat. There is also a vegetarian burger, the McAloo Tikki.

GERMANY

It's bottoms up in Germany, where McDonald's serves - Beer!

CANADA

In parts of Canada, have a lobster dinner with the McLobster lobster roll. Pardon me - "McHomard" (in French).

JAPAN

Japan totally reinvents McDonald's with its Ebi Filet-O (shrimp burgers), Koroke Burger (mashed potato, cabbage and katsu sauce, all in a sandwich), Ebi-Chiki (shrimp nuggets) and Green Tea-flavored milkshake!

NORWAY

In fish-loving Norway, they have the McLaks, a sandwich made of grilled salmon and dill sauce.

CHILE

In Chile, you can dress your burgers with - not ketchup - avocado paste!

COSTA RICA

In Costa Rica, unsurprisingly, you can order Gallo Pinto, meaning rice and beans.

GREECE

It's not Greek without pita, so when in Greece, have a Greek Mac, a burger made of patties wrapped in pita.

HONG KONG

Rice-loving Hong Kong, has - of course - Rice Burgers, where the burgers are in between, not burger buns, but two patties of glutinous rice.

ISRAEL

Despite Jewish religious dietary laws, most McDonald's are not Kosher (there are a few exceptions), and they serve "McPitzutz" ice creams and cheeseburgers... and Israel is one of the only countries that cooks the meat over charcoal versus frying. They also have the McKebab, two patties with Middle Eastern seasonings, stuffed into a pita bread.

URUGUAY

In Uruguay, they have the McHuevo, which is like a regular hamburger, but it is topped with a poached egg.

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