What budget would I need for a year?

Hi,

My girlfriend and I will be leaving for a years travelling as of April this year and wondered how much people thought was a realistic amount of cash to take to get us around South America (3 months), Oz and NZ (2 months), South East Asia (6 months) (Excluding China and Japan) and India (1 month).

We already have our flights and trips paid for so the figure only relates to spending money really! We realise everyone is different and this is a bit of an impossible question to some degree but any input would be of benefit!

Thanks,

John Reply to this

Hello John

Having not been to South America but to the other areas, I can confirm what Elyse and Pete have said. South East Asia and India will be cheap - it is still the best value travel region in the world. Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia are all well priced. Haven't been to either Vietnam or Laos, but the same applies there from what I believe. Also heard that Sri Lanka is very well priced too.

NZ will be a considerable increase in price and Australia will jump even more. Put it this way, many Australians now travel to Asia for their holidays because it is cheaper than holidaying at home, even when factoring in the cost of the long-haul airfares. The very strong Australian dollar is one reason for this.

Re prices in Australia, have a look at this thread: How to budget for each country? where a couple of Aussies (me included) discuss the prices here. This thread is also very useful for the other comments on it as well. Reply to this

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