I don’t think prices are higher in Asia now, if anything hotel prices seen to have gone down in Thailand. We noticed it particularly around the time of the King’s death. The global travel slump maybe ? I was booking hotels in Malaysia last night and couldn’t believe the low prices …maybe we’re just richer LOL, And we just booked a flight for $16 ! Unreal.

Thanks for that. Yes of course prices will go up over time. Even then I’m impressed you could do it back then on that amount.

Mind you I guess the boys were younger then and had not hit the eat them out of house and home stage!

Look foward to more of your posts. Quite good digging through your older stuff and can see you have updated some things

Hi Tom, this post is from 6 years ago, we’d just started out on the road and our first year was super budget. It was in Au or US $, back then they were pretty much the same. These days we quote everything in US $. Our first year on the road came in at $100 per day, roughly. We did the maths. We have a couple of posts in our money section that break down this spend. It did not include pre- trip expenses such as insurance and vaccinations we got at home. Neither did it include that first flight from Australia to KL. It included all other flights. It did include the vaccinations we got on the road, it included everything we spent from the day we left, including 2 new laptops, 2 cameras a watch and 2 cruise ship Atlantic crossings. In Asia $50 a day was and still is very achievable. These days we find $100 a day to be comfortable in most places, not all ! Tibet cost us $4000 for 8 days, some things are just expensive, but Asia and Eastern Europe can be super cheap.

Hi that budget amount is in what currency ? Also does that include travel to from destination, insurance etc or is that just a daiily food living activities amount?

Love your stuff

Tom