Route notes
Why this routing works
This round-the-world routing starts in Buenos Aires, uses New York as both the first long-haul connection point and the final return city, then moves in a largely eastbound sequence through Southern Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Asia. The order keeps the trip structured as a single continuous ticket rather than a series of separate regional returns.
The middle of the itinerary is built around a cluster of shorter segments: Cape Town to Johannesburg, then onward to Reunion, Mauritius, and the Seychelles. Grouping these stops together helps keep the island and regional Africa flying in one section of the trip before the routing continues to Penang and onward across Asia.
The overnight pattern is uneven by design, with longer stays in New York (19 nights) and Port Louis (14 nights), mid-length stops in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Reunion, and Mahe, and a short 2-night stop in Penang. That mix suits a ticket built around a few anchor stays with several shorter connecting points, while still fitting inside a 16-week overall timeline.
At $5,699 to $7,460 in economy, this is a complex RTW fare covering 11 listed stops from a December departure window. Because the route finishes in New York rather than returning to Buenos Aires, it is structured as an open-jaw style round-the-world itinerary anchored by the ticketed start in Argentina and endpoint in the USA.