5 Weeks in Asia: Costs

I planned a pretty exciting few weeks for myself this summer… my first trip to Asia! I also decided to start a trip cost transparency initiative for my travels, and this is quite the trip to start it with! I was doing a lot of moving around and visited 5 different countries. I kept pretty good tabs on my spending, and then converted everything to USD for the purpose of this post.

When looking at these costs keep in mind that everyone travels differently. I love food. So, there’s a good chance I spent more on food than others would care to (or maybe less, considering that I ate a lot of street food). I also highly value experience, and I am willing to pay more to see things I might not be able to do on my own at all, or when the logistics of planning something on my own would take up too much time.

Anyway, here goes… full transparency!

Note: Transport refers transport while staying in the same place, transport on refers to transport to the next destination, type of transport will be listed in this case.

Totals

One thing really stuck out in my spending – the fact that I spent over $400 on clothes in Hoi An. I took the liberty of calculating the statistics with and without this purchase because it was pretty substantial, and because most people will probably have strong feelings one way or the other on whether or not they would consider getting custom clothes while traveling, and even more so, if they would consider spending that much. For me, it made sense, which I’ll get to in a later post. Obviously, this trip could have been done for much more, or much less money. Luckily, I provided a breakdown below so you can look at the different categories that I spent money in and decide for yourself how similar or different your costs might be!

Breakdown

International Flight

Germany

China

Cambodia

 Vietnam

Thailand