Travelling around asia for 3 months budget

I visited Thailand over Christmas and New Year so accommodation was a lot more expensive than I would have usually paid so on any other month other than December this would be a fair few hundred pound less. This article is part of the Money Matters series in which we ask travelers to keep their expenses for Bunch of Backpackers. Southeast Asia is one of the most popular backpacking spots in the world.

Real travelers , real expenses. What is the best month travel itinerary for South East Asia?

What are the best cities to visit in months? An Epic Month Travel Itinerary for South East Asia. I begin and end my month travel itinerary for South East Asia in Bangkok, so I will have plenty of time to explore this diverse city. HANOI AND HA LONG BAY. VIETNAM COAST AND HO CHI MINH CITY.

I encourage you to actually partake in experiences that interest you while traveling , even if they are more expensive. On-trip Expenses : 1.

Eating local delights and choosing street food when possible are the best ways to keep food costs. Indulge yourself once in a while, though! Travelling just in these countries you can budget around $1a week.

However you should allow in a little more for flights, visas and travel insurance for your backpacking trip. We shopped around for discounted guesthouses, ate mostly cheap foo walked places regularly, and often took cheaper transportation. Many tourists head over to the south-east of Asia for different spells of time, though most end up staying for a few weeks to. The cost of the visa varies depending on the passport you are travelling with. We paid $each for our month Vietnam visas.

Myself and a friend are travelling to SE Asia for months from October 15th till January the 15th. The two of us (Couple) are planning a trip out to SE Asia leaving in the middle of Feb next year for just over months. After four months of traveling it is time to review and sum up our travel budget. Are you curious to know how much traveling in Asia costs? Well, we can say that it is possible to travel Asia for only euros per day, including the flights!

Keep reading to learn how we have managed to do that. So far, we have traveled mostly in expensive.

The Budget Travel Table below suggests a daily shoestring travel budget for backpackers in countries around the world. It is based on staying in a cheap room or dorm in a budget hostel. The figures take into account typical transport costs within a country.

They are based on eating local street foo in budget restaurants or self-catering and averaging perhaps a couple of alcoholic drinks. Usually when people hear I’m traveling around the world for five months , they assume it’s expensive and I must have lots of money to do it. But it’s actually a lot cheaper than you would think. That’s without knowing your exact travel style though, so it’s always hard to say.

If you watch your spending you will probably be OK though. Keep an eye on your budget in southern Thailand or the touristy parts of Bali as the euros can flow more. Check out our budget for our months trip around the worl from Asia to South Pacific, Central and South America. Trek around the hill town of Kalaw and make time to visit Inle Lake to stay in a relatively cheap over-the-water bungalow.

The restored Mandalay palace in Mandalay is also a must visit before you end your trip in Bagan, the so called Machu Picchu of Asia where, if you budget correctly, you can indulge in a hot air balloon ride to remember. By this point I’d spend over weeks travelling in South East Asia and still hadn’t seen a real beach, luckily this is where the islands at the south of Cambodia did not disappoint. With a mix of beautiful white beaches and dense jungle terrain, your time on the island of Koh Rong can’t go wrong. Look out for some epic weekly beach parties at some of the island’s bars. A one-way flight from Sydney to Melbourne, for example, will cost around £3 or if you’re looking at heading from the East Coast to West Coast, Melbourne to Perth one-way starts from around £69.

Rail travel is also a great shout, and there are loads of cross country passes available that are valid for three months. Think about where paying a little more will really enrich your trip. We have a general route we would like to take but are unsure if we are trying to see too much in the months we have.

Our proposed route is as follows: Fly to Bangkok and travel overland to Chiang Mai.