How much USD per day would you plan for this trip? I'll stay in hostels as much as I can. Including trains and buses but not plane tickets, spending money per day:
Western Europe 2 months
Middle east - 2 weeks
SE Asia - 1 month
AUS- 1 month
NZ 1 month
Yours sounded like the trip I am planning for in five years. I am shelving away $100 per pay stub plus my insurance refunds. I am figuring $100 per day in the developed countries and considerably less in the developing ones. What do you think? Would love to hear of your experience one day.
Are you traveling alone or with someone? With a traveling companion, $100 per person per day is about right for Europe and Australia and New Zealand. SE Asia will be about 20% cheaper. I have no idea on Middle East prices though Egypt was not as cheap as I thought it would be.
Right now I'm on a trip of 1 mo. in NZ, short visit to Australia, 2 mo. in Europe, and some Asian and Middle Eastern countries thrown in for shorter periods.
Keep in mind the budget is not just about food and lodging; transportation prices have gotten quite a bit more lately.
Steve
It's absolutely impossible go make even a wild guess.
Taking western europe as an example, there's a big difference between plopping in southwestern France for two months and leapfroging from Oslo to Palermo to Lisbon to Berlin to Dublin to ......
Transportation alone can dump your pocketbook.
Traveling in europe, I have no problem (when splitting with another person) getting by on a hundred bucks per person per day -- if we don't spend more than about twenty-five percent of the time in large cities. If I'm alone, it pushes $150 per day.
Southeast asia I can do on a lot less, if too many airplanes aren't involved. But I enjoy street food.
I've never broken the code on Australia and probably spend too much on transportation anyway. New Zealand is the less expensive of the two.
I bum off of friends in the Middle East, so no great opinion there.
You need to rethink in terms of spots instead of vast regions and work from there.
