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hi! most of the travels i had that really took a long time are those with flight delays, cancelled trips or simply not having a direct route to my final destination. sometimes, one-way route would cost me two days just to get there. lol like davao city (philippines) to jeju island (south korea). i had to take a davao-manila flight the day before my 5:30 am flight to seoul, but it was 2-3 hours delayed. then their international airport and local airport was quite a distance away. we arrived in the hotel in jeju around midnight. overnight stays in between destinations can also cost two days, technically speaking. like going to cambodia via kuala lumpur, we had to spend the night in kl to get the early flight to cambodia. the worst locally, i took the longest route to a couple of meetings i had to go to that took me 3 crazy days for a total of 4 hours of meeting. the 3 days round trip involved an 8-hour zigzaggy bus ride, a 12-hour overnight boat ride which was caught in a storm in the middle of the sea, two 2-hour smaller boat rides (but one took longer when caught in the turbulent seas), two 3-hour very rough bus rides, a total of 3 hours in 4 taxi cabs, 4-5 hours in a hotel, early morning flight that got delayed for 6 hours, and a 1-hour flight that went thru a rough ride. goodness, i was sick to my stomach when i got home. lol perhaps out of the times that i get to travel, it's best to travel with some food because not all places serve decent food. also a reading material can be handy when you have to wait several hours when flights are delayed. an extra money for shopping could help pass up the time when you are stranded in airports as nice as singapore. and getting local maps in international destinations is also kinda nice because you get a chance to know a bit of what to expect from a foreign land. pen and a notebook for writing or doodling can be handy. a laptop or a netbook is just great especially if you get wi-fi. or any electronics that you're fond of like cams, ipods etc. i'm just fortunate i guess that whenever i travel i get to meet nice people locally and from different countries to chat with. so i never get bored.

my longest travel time is 16 hours in 4-wheel-drive. the trip is from laoag city (my hometown way up northern philippines) to sagada (mountain province). hours on a highway from laoag to baguio. another 8 hours of trail from baguio to sagada. there is nothing much to do but eat, sleep, stare, and chat.

My trip from England to Colombia seemed my longest trip ever. I traveled with my disabled son and baby daughter. We caught three trains to a hotel close to the London Airport and stayed overnight. We got on our London Madrid flight at 07.00 but it stayed on the ground for another two hours due to fog at Madrid. When it did arrive in Madrid we had missed our connecting flight to Bogota. After a lot of bother we got two seats on a different airline for our ten hour flight from Madrid to Bogota. We arrived at 23.30 and missed the last flight of the day to Cartagena. We stayed overnight at a hotel in Bogota that the airline provided for us. At 08.00 the next day we flew from Bogota to Cartagena De Indias. Then we found out that our baggage had been lost. Whilst in transit we waited in a line of people and had difficulty speaking to the airline due to the language barrier.

My longest travel was by bus.I traveled 52 hours and it was just such an tiring journey that i slept one day after because of it.There are a lot of things to do.The normal things are to listen to music,read a book bla bla.But the best thing is to get a device which gives you access to internet wherever you are,take your laptop and talk with mylotters during the trip.

my longest time in travel was by a bus. a travel to ilocos sur in pangasinan. it took me 12 hours going there. ooops, sorry the longest travel was in daraga, albay by a bus too. from there going back to manila alone, it took me 14 long hours, so many annoying stopover.

I've travel to many various place, none of em is outside the country. My longest travel is by bus, it's the only transportation that take me here and there. It's quite long the journey itself takes and sometime I felt bored of travelling and stay at home relaxing.

well, I've never had a trip where I stayed traveling longer than the visit, but my mom flew to China and they had an overnight stop both ways in Japan, so while she never got out of the hotel, she did stop there twice. And the return visit she got to experience her first earthquake ever, and she lived in California for a while, and it was a BIG one too!

Hello Doggydimon, once we went to the beach at Vallarta, there was a delay on the returning flight, of four hours. And I tell you what you shouldn´t do: Argue! Hehe, my father, with other group of turist began to yeld and argue. They gained nothing. I just read, and go around. Blessings... Dainy

The longest i have been away from home and not with my family is two weeks and i was away with my boyfriend and we went to his old stomping grounds and to see his family and friends there and it was really good and there is actually alot of history in Maryland that i never even knew about and it was a lot of fun and i got to see great things. I will say that we didnt have a layover but when i traveled by myself to Texas to meet up with a friend of mine i didnt have alaptop at the time but if i did i would have brought that and probably would have typed up some articles for associated content or watched some movies or even played some games i would of isntalled on the laptop before leaving and that is always something to do when you are bored.

A delayed flight is really tiring. I heard some experienced canceled flights during the Iceland volcanoes ashes in Europe. Many have to sort for other means of transport like trains, detours and looking for accommodations. I have experienced delayed in flights when I was in Jordan and flying back to Malaysia. It is okay when we are traveling back, but my worries is when our outbound flight to a transit destination is delayed, we might risk missing the connecting flight to our destination for an urgent meeting. I will normally play games with my son during transit or just read a book. It will be better and more fun if we are traveling with family and friends in a bigger group. More ideas to have fun during the transit.

I already shared this experience before in this site but i'll share it again with you. It was supposed to be a more than an hours trip by plane a few minutes ride from the airport to the bus station and more than an hours ride for the bus to reach home. So it's or less around 3 hours. Me, my wife and my kid woke up at 2 am in the morning in preparation to a 5 am flight. Due to bad weather, we were only able to fly at already around 11 am. When the plane was about to land, the airport's runway is nowhere to be seen due the the fog so the pilot rerouted our flight to another airport. When we finally landed it's already around 2 PM. There's no another flight available but we're offered the option to return to our point of origin for free or they'll give us some money so we can continue our journey to our destination so we chose the second option. so we're ferried from the airport to the pier, when we reached the pier it's already 6PM, the boat will leave at 9PM. we set sail and we arrived at our destination at 8am but the sea is so choppy that the boat can't dock, it was so choppy that the captain decided to look for an alternative dock. It was already past lunch time when the boat was allowed to dock at a nearby cement factory. Then were ferried by bus to the nearest bus station, I check my time and it was already 2 PM. Finally we reached the house at 3PM. So what's supposed to be a three hour boring trip turned out to be a 38 hour adventure that's similar to the amazing race.

Well, if i travel by bus , i just enjoy the scenery as it passes by those towns. I always bring a magazine with me though, whenever i travel. This is in case, there is delay, there will be something to do.