S.E Asia for 10 months.....

Hi All

My boyfriend and I have booked one way flights to Kuala Lumpur, leaving January next year (internal flights sorted out and paid for).

We are trying to be brave, have rented out our flat and moved into my parents place to start saving. We had a few debts to clear first, plus a few unforseen expenses over the last month or two.....we will be saving about £12k (only have insurance to pay for before we go). Does anyone think this is a ridicuously low figure to be taking with us?

We are planning on travelling around Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and South West China, then spending a month or two in Oz with friends (so we wont be paying for accomodation).

We dont really drink alot, have visited Thailand last year and got by quite nicely on £800 for 3 weeks.....with me spending lots on touristy stuff, so I was thinking this would be quite a good amount.....have heard of couples getting by on £600 a month inc accomodation in the cheaper countries spending more time out of the big cities.

We were thinking of maybe getting some bar work or something when we are in S. E. Asia (if we run low on funds), has anyone done this before? I have heard of some people getting free accomodation whilst working.....we really want to see the local life in the countries above....any comments would be really welcome?

Thank you in advance!!

Victoria Reply to this

Hey Mel

Thanks for your helpful response. We were thinking of around £600/700Euros (but we can go up to £900) per month for most of South East Asia, and then for South West China we were thinking we'd have to spend a little bit more, but as long as we stay out of the big cities it should be cheaper? We were planning on spending our time in China in Yunnan Province, hopefully staying out of the touristy areas.


I know that Australia is more expensive (probably nearly on par with London), but as we have free accomodation I think we could get by on a lot less than 80Euros per day? Would you say 80 Euros per day with accomodation included or just for food etc?

The £800 we spent was alot, we did waste alot of money and got a bit carried away with all the goodies on sale!! 😊

I thought about that when booking the ticket to Kuala Lumpur, and the fact that we only have a one way ticket could be a problem, Id heard about people not being let on to the flight.

We are flying to KL with Air Asia, and I have booked us out going flights with them as well to Cambodia so hopefully this shouldnt be a problem as they can see we have further bookings and plan on leaving the country? Will definately make sure that we have all the itinerarys that Air Asia have sent us when we check in so they can see we have plans to move on.

I have not booked any onwards flights from Cambodia as Ive read that they let you in without proof of leaving....hopefully this is true, otherwise was just thinking of buying some cheap flights out to show we are actually going to be leaving!!

Thanks again, I find money is always the biggest worry what ever you are doing, so its nice to hear how much other people have spent. Reply to this

Thank you! Hopefully wont be spending alot (famous last words!) just want to visit friends and family and chill really.... Reply to this