Budget backpacker
My last year: $12,215
Eleven countries, 365 days and a video for each stretch.
- Southeast Asia
- South Asia
- East Asia
- Further west
- Vietnam$2,110North to south by train and bus
- Indonesia$1,820Java to Flores by bus and boat
- India$1,680Night trains and cheap rooms
- Philippines$1,560Six islands and the ferries
- Sri Lanka$1,055Slow trains and hill towns
- Nepal$1,025A trek and a lot of dal
- Cambodia$935Temples and a river town
- Laos$925Bungalows and slow boats
- Georgia$640Guesthouses and minibuses
- 2 smaller stops$465
Where it went
11 countries, 365 days
Area is what I spent there, not the days.
Latest videos
Every country I visit, filmed with its costs on screen.
- 21:00
21:00
Vietnam on $34 a day, receipt by receipt
Sixty-two days from the north to the south, with every bill shown on screen.
- 20:00
20:00
Laos and Cambodia on local buses
Fifty-four days of river towns and cheap bungalows, and what each bus ticket cost.
- 18:00
18:00
The Philippines, island by island: what each one cost
Forty days, six islands and the ferry prices nobody puts on the map.
- 19:00
19:00
Indonesia on a budget, from Java to Flores
Fifty-two days, a lot of noodles and the boat that cost more than the week before it.
Downloads, a course and merch
Shop
Downloads arrive by email. Merch is printed to order and shipped by Printful.
About me
I’m Kanya. I grew up in Chiang Mai, left at twenty-three with one 40 litre bag and have been on the road for two years since, on about $35 a day.
I film the cost of every country I visit, with the receipts on screen. I sell the budget sheets I keep as I go, a planner for the whole trip and a few lists, and you can learn it all in two short courses.
The Daily Spend
One country’s costs a week: what a day cost, and what I would skip.