Or what is the same ... Long live the excel!
First we are going to talk about costs, twine, the pastaaaa. Airline tickets, medical insurance, by country, and our tour, so what you can see in Google Maps. Finally, to finish this entry that you worked hard to write (which it is lived in Galicia!), Some simple tips for those who have to take a trip.
- Tickets: 3004 euros per person (flight and emission rates included). Ticket Around the World Oneworld group. Ticket type: OneWorld Explorer, based on the number of continents you visit in interrail plan.
Tickets must be closed the way from the beginning, the dates they can stay open and be closed during the trip. You can also change the routes but it does have costs, we changed the ticket in Australia and it cost us 150 euros per person.
From our point of view, it is better to close some approximate dates for all flights (you can always change for free). In this way you assure you a place on the date selected, cost us close on the dates we wanted, a long haul flight we left undated.
- Security: 602 euros per person for a year powerful enough medical coverage. We, fortunately, we use it only once and it worked perfectly. The company hired him Worldnomads operated post-paid expenses, that is, you advance the money, then you claim with the necessary documentation ... (note that the documentation must be in English) and they will return the money in your account.
- Countries: For the daily expenditure per country trip I will detail the cost per couple ... as you know, sometimes traveling alone is a bit more expensive than the cost of a split evenly between two, so Make your adjustments. Chile
: It was not necessary visa.
-Number of days: 36
-Average expenditure per day: 71.98 euros / couple
Tour Chile Bolivia
: It was not necessary visa.
-Number of days: 10
-Average expenditure per day: 45.62 euros / couple
Detail of one of the main activities included: 3 days Tour
Salar de Uyuni (143.84 euros / pair)
Peru : It was not necessary visa.
-Number of days: 21
-Average expenditure per day: 79.92 euros / couple
Detail of one of the main activities included:
-Train tickets to Machu Picchu + (161.88 euros / pair)-tour
three-day 4x4 Manu Nature Reserve (457.50 euros / pair)
Bolivia and Peru tour
Brazil : It was not necessary visa.
-Number of days: 36
-Average expenditure per day: 71.69 euros / couple extra
Flight (not included in the average expenditure): Sao Paulo-Natal with GOL 341.33 euros / couple
Brazil Tour Argentina
: It was not necessary visa.
-Number of days: 31
-Average expenditure per day: 67.99 euros / couple
Detail of one of the main activities included: Tour
glaciers (135 euros / pair)
Argentina and Patagonia Travel
New Zealand: It was not necessary visa.
-Number of days: 26
-Average expenditure per day: 136.39 euros / couple
Detail of one of the main activities included:
car-rental 23 days (641.93 euros / pair)
Kayak Tour Abel Tasman Park (164.30 euros / pair)
-Whale Watching Tour Kaikoura (137.80 euros / pair)
-Hop in free fall (skydiving) Queenstown (550 euros / couple)
New Zealand Tour
Australia: It was necessary visa. We did at the airport in Christchurch (NZ) for 30 NZD per person, about 14.33 euros or so.
-Number of days: 38
-Average expenditure per day: 115.24 euros / couple
Detail of one of the main activities included: "Three days
minibus in Uluru (169.07 euros / pair)
-Tour 1 day visit to Fraser Island (167.40 euros / pair)
-Greyhound Bus to tour the east coast (386.88 euros / pair)
Tour Australia
Japan: It was not necessary visa.
-Number of days: 17
-Average expenditure per day: 121.92 euros / couple
Detail of one of the main activities included: Japan Rail Pass
14 days (594.89 euros / pair)
Japan Tour India
: It was necessary visa. We did in Sydney for 90 AUD per person, about 52.66 euros or so.
-Number of days: 40
-Average expenditure per day: 44.78 euros / couple
Detail of one of the main activities included:
-Tour 20-day car with driver-guide (486 euros / pair)
Flight extra (not included in the average expenditure): New Delhi-Bangalore with Jet Airways 180 euros / couple
India Tour
south Thailand: It was not necessary visa.
-Number of days: 17
"Average expenditure per day: 37.50 euros / couple extra
Flight (not included in the average expenditure): AirAsia Bangkok-Hanoi to EUR 120 per couple
southern Thailand Travel
Vietnam: It was necessary visa . We did in Tokyo for 6000 yen per person, about 37.59 euros or so.
-Number of days: 26
-Average expenditure per day: 41.28 euros / couple
Detail of one of the main activities included:
Sapa Tour 3 days + 2 days Halong Bay (259 euros / pair)
Tour Mekong delta 2 days (56.39 EUR / pair)
Vietnam Tour Cambodia
: It was necessary visa. We did to get by crossing the Mekong River from Vietnam for 22 USD per person, about 14.99 euros or so.
-Number of days: 7
-Average expenditure per day: 51.37 euros / couple
Detail of one of the main activities included: Angkor Wat
-Spend 3 days (53.33 EUR / pair)
Cambodia Tour
northern Thailand: It was not necessary visa.
-Number of days: 19
-Average expenditure per day: 41.42 euros / couple
Laos : It was necessary visa. We did when arriving on the Friendship Bridge between Thailand (Nong Khai) and Laos by 35 USD per person, about 23.85 euros or so.
-Number of days: 15
-Average expenditure per day: 44.41 euros / couple
Detail of one of the main activities included:
Tour Jungle Trekking 3 days (140.61 euros / pair)
Travel North Thailand and Laos Malaysia
: It was not necessary visa.
-Number of days: 8
-Average expenditure per day: 46.28 euros / couple
Singapore: It was not necessary visa.
-Number of days: 4
-Average expenditure per day: 70.20 euros / couple
Detail of one of the main activities included:
-Dinner Farewell (83.87 euros / pair)
Malaysia and Singapore Travel
General recommendations:
- Money: We traveled with 1000 dollars in cash and traveler's checks 1000. What the traveler is a little pain in the ass, and certainly not economically efficient, but gives you the security of having stolen money but you can recover with the guards and their numbers. What we did was scan our own and we sent it to our email for easy access. The rest of what we were getting money from ATM, always taking a little longer than necessary contingency. We used Citibank and ING.
Nuestra experiencia con Citibank es muy mala....la web no está orientada a usuarios que les guste llevar el control del gasto (las descripciones de los gastos en el extranjero son de coña). Para más inri el acceso a la parte web va asociada a la tarjeta de débito, con lo cual, si te roban la tarjeta de débito por supuesto la anulas a todo correr para que no te fundan los plomos y....cuando quieres mover el dinero a otra cuenta para seguir funcionando....pues no tienes acceso a la web de citibank porque has anulado la tarjeta....vamos que está pensadíiiiisimo.
Es verdad que en ciertos países, si te acercas a un citibank y sacas con la tarjeta de débito no tienes ninguna comisión, pero primero debes averiguar in which countries does that .... I was unable to (pay a 4% in a Citibank Chile ... and I'm still waiting for the return of the commission).
With ING opposite happened to us, everything went very well, spending well detailed with a 2% commission (minimum of 1.35 euros), in any country in the world (or at least fifteen we visited). The customer service is good and respond to problems quickly.
monitor the movements abroad especially when you you go away from our time zone, sometimes doubling traffic and when passing the expense to be steady, keeping you off balance available duplicated but never made cash .... Some have understood this? I hope so. The budgets
leave open some fads, so small you forget you rubbed by each particular expenditure, we agreed with a couple that had this issue as a recurrent discussion. We had 2000 euros per head (and not spend it all.)
- Accommodation: For the first night accommodation in a country or for days when it comes too late for a city we believe it is good idea to book in advance. We have used for these cases hostelworld and it works great, you can book both rooms and beds in shared rooms. I send a mail confirmation that you keep as proof of your reservation. At first you're charged by the management but if you become a user, after three reserves no longer charge you the commission. Another site that we use less is hostelbookers
BUDGET If you go with a medium-low or low, use only as reference guides to find areas for housing, but I would not trust the specific recommendations of the guide. Normally, the hostels listed in the guides know they have a steady clientele, so prices rise and neglect quality and personal attention. It is better if you have time, look for door to door in an area that has a large supply of accommodation, get better prices and better rooms. Marta and I used to stop at a coffee shop, one is left with the backpacks and the other sought to quiet a place to sleep.
- Health : We were vaccinated nearly all the recommendations of the Passenger Service Centre for Foreign Health. With regard to malaria, we Savarine in South India and Malarone during the stay in Cambodia and Laos, while respecting the post-exposure periods marked by the drug (30 days after leaving the risk area Savarine and 7 days for Malarone). Of Malarone have no complaint about side effects are concerned, let me Savarine my stomach upset and a half dizzy.
Certainly the Malarone can be bought in Cambodia and is significantly cheaper than in Spain (I think it cost 45 USD a box) ...
- Backpack: The backpack choice is important because you will spend much time with her in tow, it's worth spending a little money. We buy in stores hiking trail that is near to Madrid a great Deuter backpacks that I would recommend to everybody. We went for about 110 euros each if I remember correctly.
Mine was 70 liters and Marta of 55 +10. Also hers is specially designed for women with narrower strips on the chest and form female hip ... like a bullshit but Martha was cool. What is important is that it has zipped over the harness so that you can open in the case plan and not have to walk emptying and putting everything every time you need the bath towel or something in the background.
Many asked us what we put one in your backpack when you go one year. The answer is "not much more than a couple of weeks" because every 15 days at most we did a wash. In the hostels usually have laundry facilities with coin operated washers and dryers. Elsewhere laundry services are clothes you back up planchadita. As for what to wear, we believe it is important to keep layers (what they call the style onion), but none of them bulge too (for that space). We wore those fleeces you all know (and still use), thermal underwear vests as a windbreaker and tights and very thin but highly resistant to water as a final coat.
Something that came in handy was a pool-type bath towels, which are of a very thin fabric that dries much success. And for the beach, although many have only a sarong, we bought some towels superfine giving the hit pretty well, sold in stores "Texture."
- pijadas : Take combination locks, so I forget the problem of losing the key. What to bring lock is simply a deterrent, it is clear that with a backpack if someone wants to split with a knife makes this lock ... or not ... and that combination locks can be opened with little time or ability, but at least serves to open a zipper. We also use a lock and chain, such as motorcycles, but smaller, we tied her backpack on some trains and buses to travel and sleep more peacefully. We
a universal plug adapter which was very good, compact and with a USB adapter. There are also some
compressor bags that make the impossible possible when making a bag, remove air from the shirts and channn ta! now I go around. We took one each.
Y. .. I think that's all. For specific questions that we have not answered here, you're going to have to get in touch with us. Our emails are:
marta36203@yahoo.com
juan.elosua @ gmail.com
This means that, in these notes I hope someone can use (although that information will be obsolete soon), and although We are so sorry, we think we should give to close this blog. We have spent many hours, much effort and much love, and has helped us keep in touch with you and receive your support and your feelings, some good, some perhaps not, but I assure you that we have done with the best intentions.
A kiss to all and thank you, thank you very much.
Marta and Juan
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