Route notes
Why this routing works
This 13-week round-the-world route starts from San Francisco and moves west-to-east by first crossing into South America, with 31 nights in Sao Paulo and 15 nights in Buenos Aires. The itinerary then uses an open-jaw segment, shown by the break between Buenos Aires and Cape Town, allowing the South America-to-South Africa portion to be handled separately before rejoining the ticket in Cape Town.
From Cape Town, the ticket continues with a positioning flight to Johannesburg before heading onward to Perth, Sydney, and Auckland. That sequence keeps the long-haul segments moving in one direction across the southern hemisphere, with shorter intra-region links inside South Africa and Australia helping bridge the bigger ocean crossings.
Timing is built around an August departure within the July to September travel window. The longest planned stays are concentrated early and late in the trip, with 5 nights in Perth, 11 nights in Sydney, and 15 nights in Auckland after the South Africa segment. In economy, this is a budget-conscious RTW structure that combines a surface gap with multiple stopovers while still closing the loop back to San Francisco.