A lot of you asked how much money we are taking with us. Obviously it's an important question, because if someone would like to go on a similar trip then he can calculate how much coal he has to shovel.
The goal of this blog is to encourage everyone who is interested in traveling to just go and see the world for yourselves. So we won't keep our financials in secret, and this way maybe you'll see that if you cut back a little on the budget it's not that expensive. A lot of people could afford a trip like this instead of cigarettes or a better car - it's just the priorities...
So our proposed numbers:
- Judit, who comes for 5-6 months wants to spend about $2200, including $550 for the flight home. Plus she paid visas, vaccination and equipment for about an additional $550. That's a total of about $2750.
- I calculated for one year about $5500, including some exciting sporting/learning opportunity I might find. Plus there's an additional $3000 for a scuba diving licence. I also spent $550 on visas and equipment, and I have to get home from New Zealand, that's about $1000. So the total for me is about $10000, which contains a lot of extra spending on the scuba diving. And actually that's all the money I have, so if I don't work anywhere during this trip than my balance will be zero by the time I get home.
We carry our money on credit cards, and we'll use them instead of cash everywhere we can, but we'll carry about $400 each in cash too, because for example in Iran there aren't any ATMs, so we'll need it there. I hope I won't be so unlucky like the time I went to Mexico and lost my all $500 on the plane. Shit happens.
Also, there's a lot of stuff that we would have had to buy, but instead we got them for free thanks to Mountex. It's really great quality stuff, I'll write about them in a different post.
We tried to find more sponsors, it would've been cool to have free travelers insurance (now we don't have any, except for the first month, which came with the credit card so fingers crossed...) Or for instance if someone would have financed us to stay at a bit better places, or to try out even more exciting opportunities along the way. For example there'll be rafting in Turkey but we won't have the money for it. Sadly, it's quite possible that we'll loose a lot of potential experience like this. But I think if someone starts a similar trip and spends a month looking for sponsors, he'll find plenty.
Other than material sponsors our blog will receive appearance on the main page of index.hu, the second-biggest Hungarian news website, and maybe in some of their articles if they like our blog.
I'm sure I left out a lot of important information, so feel free to ask if you're interested. Comments wont't work easily for you on this Hungarian-English blog thing so feel free to write to me in e-mail (to veszelovszki@gmail.com).
(thanks for the translation to our friend Bence!)
