How much money to travel around the world

Deadalus

The girlfriend and myself are planning to travel around the world next year through most of Asia and a short time in Austraila and New Zealand and the states. We are only going for around 4-5 months in total. Can anyone give me an indication as to how much money we will need to bring with us?

PCros

I'm in the same boat as you. I'm heading off in January, I was thinking of bringing 4-5k. I'm just going for four months myself. The euro is worth more than all of the currencies especially the Thai Baht which you get 43bahts for 1euro.

Singapore is the dearest when it comes to drink coz of the 'sin tax'. $6-10 for a beer there!

Neamhshuntasach

i'm going around the world next may for a year and i have it worked out at around 12 grand or so. i added up all expenses and it came to a little over 12 grand. going to america, cuba, south america, new zealand, australia, thailand, laos, cambodia and vietnam. i plan on working in new zealand for 2 months or so just to earn a little money back.

lady_j

Neamhshuntasach wrote:

i'm going around the world next may for a year and i have it worked out at around 12 grand or so. i added up all expenses and it came to a little over 12 grand. going to america, cuba, south america, new zealand, australia, thailand, laos, cambodia and vietnam. i plan on working in new zealand for 2 months or so just to earn a little money back.

When you say you added all your expensives- is this including flights, insurance, jabs etc? trying to budget myself also!

Neamhshuntasach

descry wrote:

When you say you added all your expensives- is this including flights, insurance, jabs etc? trying to budget myself also!

yeah it includes everything. took a good few weeks to come up with the figure. it includes the price of the round the world flights, i booked the world discovery plus package with usit. i added up the price of the flights i require myself, such as getting from miami to cuba through a gatewat city. i looked up the daily cost of living in all countries and read through forums how much i should expect to spend and so forth. i'm also doing a 10 week tour with a guide in south america and a 30 day rail pass with amtrak so that increases the spending a bit. i included how much i expect to pay in each country for accommodation also. and the insurance and visa to work in new zealand is included too. as well is all vaccinations.

i allowed a little leeway on verything, for example everyone says $20 is well enough spending money in south america, so i brought it up to $22

the total i got was €12,600. so i have the potential to spend less than that, but then again it could end up costing more. i'm not going till end of may 2008 so just gonna put by 250 minimum a week till then.

lady_j

Im glad you said it had included it, I have the insurance and flights booked as well as some separate flights. I should have 7000-8000 euro leaving so I was hoping that'd get me through the year! Im planning on working for a few months too... there's always my credit cards to abuse