Advice on a good professional camera

In a couple of months I'm going to travel for a year or so and i really need (and want) a professional camera!
I want it to be light, easy to use (terrible with technology), well priced, great zoom with great optical range and high definition!
I was looking at either Nikon or Canon? But then again I'm not good with technology!

I know a Nikon camera is good quality
But I don't know much about cameras

"Professional camera"? Professional cameras start at about $4, 000 and go up. Consumer level dslr cameras, not rated as professional, start at about $500 and go up.

There's no such thing as a "Professional Camera" that is light, well priced, great zoom… It doesn't exist.

I think you'd perhaps better lower your expectations to a point and shoot snappers camera.

The camera you should look at is the Olympus E-P1
Read the reviews. "a professional camera that will fit in the palm of your hand". The level of technology is cracking and the quality achievable is terrific. A good used one for under 200. Get a zoom lens too and you have a real package. No TTL view but otherwise it knocks everything else near the price into the weeds.

You don't really want a professional camera; they are very expensive and complicated to muse if you are not familiar with cameras.
A good quality compact will suit you. They are light and easy to carry; easy to use and have many features including good zoom.
You are right to go for a Canon. Their Powershots are great cameras so I recommend you buy the most expensive you can afford. They start at around £80 and go up to £400.

I'm at the end of my 1 year travel journey. The camera I bought b4 the journey was a dslr nikon d7000.It was value for money. Mid range at the time. With 2 lenses. The zoom lens worked exceptionally well. The only problem was its size and weight. Carrying the camera and lenses and kit was heavy. At times I didn't bother taking it with me and took fots using my phone instead. I recommend one of those compact DSLR digital camera which you can attach those small lenses to. Brand wise… I live by nikon. Check out flikr website for camera finder it shows how photos turn out by different cameras.

Jakub is right, that's exactly how it works out travelling with a DSLR and lenses if you're not prepared to be a slave to your photo-enthusiasm. But even the dinky little CSC cameras get big when you add longer lenses if you get a long telezoom. So for example say you put a 18-200 E-mount zoom (details in link) on a Sony Nex, the camera body weighs 276g and the lens 460g. That's 730g which is more than 1 and a half lbs of camera to carry. This is not really all that much lighter than a DSLR Canon 100D with an 18-270 lens which would be at 860g (2lb).

I think I'd just take a little Canon PowerShot SX280 HS.