It's all good mane, we all start somewhere. The general consensus (from a current thread about solo travelling) is that it's orders of magnitude more meaningful and fulfilling.

On one side it's prolly worth it because navigating Asia for yourself might be hell, on the other side it isn't because you're doing memes and nothing else and it's guided, not really an adventure there.

Alternative suggestion: plan ahead and meet people from the countries/cities which you can meet, you can still do the memes and then find some interesting local stuff, plus they'll help you with rail station and you're not on a schedule.

If you want to spend extra 2 days in any place, nothing is stopping you.

Also
>group

I can already see the loud and obnoxious burger family that will be with you and taking up 8 seats for 2 people.

Plan ahead, go on interpals and /soc/, get the apps (tinder, baidu, foursquare), be sure to have interwebs at where you're staying and research the city on the spot (if you haven't planned on being there).

Captcha: 747

Does the 3500 euro include flights? If so that's pretty darn good. I hope it doesn't mean the tour will include 40 other tourists.