We are traveling for 6 months around South East Asia on NZ$100 per day (which can be anywhere between $70.00 - $80.00 US). We are in our forties from Wellington in New Zealand.

We will be visiting Thailand, Vietnam, India and Cambodia and we have not decided where we will spend the last 3 weeks, probably in Thailand on a beach somewhere!!

We are writing our blog for different audiences: to keep in touch with our sons, Kiel and Liam, family and friends, but also have included some info for potential travelers on our accommodation and prices. We are aiming for no more than NZ$35.00 per night on average, but an ensuite with flushing toilet is non negotiable! We have NZ$200 per week extra allocated for either events, luxury (like hot water!) or for extra accommodation costs which we expect will be needed in India, especially in the cities.

Update April: We are back now and had an amazing time and would do it again in a flash. For those wondering about cost, total expenses whilst overseas $31,000 NZ, but we could have done this without the 5,000 luxury as it gave us NZ$137.00 per day. NZ$100 per day would have been plenty, as we spent on average NZ$50 per night accommodation, in a lot of cases we took taxis and planes when we could have taken buses and trains, and we spent more on accommodation so we could get a pool, but really food was so cheap you could afford to spend more on accommodation. Every place was setup for tourism, food was cheap, booze was weak - beer was cheap - wine was expensive, (well same as at home). Language was not a problem, toilets were western (otherwise you hold on). We never felt unsafe, maybe a bit overwhelmed when we first landed in India, but never unsafe and we never had anything stolen.

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