James and I have been travelling for 3 years now! We track our all of our expenses across a variety of categories, and as 2019 is nearly over I thought it would be fun to share this years breakdown with you.
We use Google Sheets for our expense tracking — you can see all of the numbers and daily breakdown for 2019 here. If you’re interested you can check out our 2018 and 2017 expenses too.
Let’s get down to the numbers — this was originally posted as a tweet!
Spending
All of the expenses are for 2 people.
💵 Total spent this year — €29,868
Biggest expenses
€1,277 — 🐠 Rescue Diver certification in Utila, Honduras
€613 — 🐍 Amazon trek in Puerto Maldonado, Peru
Income
74% income from client work
26% income from personal projects — primarily Leave Me Alone
Countries visited
Jan — 🇵🇪 Peru
Feb — 🇪🇨 Ecuador
Mar — 🇨🇴🇭🇳 Colombia & Honduras
Apr — 🇭🇺 Hungary (Budapest)
May — 🇬🇧🇩🇪 UK, Germany (Berlin), Czech Republic (Prague)
Jun-Jul — 🇹🇭Thailand (Koh Phangan & Koh Tao)
Aug — 🇲🇾🇸🇬 Malaysia & Singapore
Sep-Oct — 🇮🇩 Indonesia (Bali & Nusa Lembongan)
Nov-Dec — 🇹🇭 Thailand (Chiang Mai)
Total cost per country
€2,249.00 — 🇵🇪 Peru (39 days)
€664.29 — 🇪🇨 Ecuador (12 days)
€1,412.73 — 🇨🇴 Colombia (25 days)
€959.48 — 🇭🇳 Honduras (17 days)
€1,905.37 — 🇭🇺 Hungary (29 days)
€2,709.40 — 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇨🇿 UK, Germany, Czech Republic (31 days)
€5,504.05 — 🇹🇭 Thailand (103 days)
€1,684.51 — 🇲🇾 Malaysia (29 days)
€327.08 — 🇸🇬 Singapore (8 days)
€3,379.78 — 🇮🇩 Indonesia (60 days)
Daily average spend per country
$57.67 — 🇵🇪 Peru
€55.36 — 🇪🇨 Ecuador
€56.51 — 🇨🇴 Colombia
€56.44 — 🇭🇳 Honduras
€65.70 — 🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary
€87.40 — 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇨🇿 UK, Berlin, & Prague
€54.26 — 🇹🇭 Thailand
€58.09 — 🇲🇾 Malaysia
€40.89 — 🇸🇬 Singapore
€56.33 — 🇮🇩 Indonesia
Flights
€126.00 — Cusco ➡️ Lima
€88.52 — Medellin ➡️ Santa Marta
€862.34 — Colombia ➡️ Honduras
€798.31 — Honduras ➡️ Budapest (via Miami)
€85.75 — Budapest ➡️ Berlin
€137.02 — Berlin ➡️ UK (return)
€375.00 — Berlin ➡️ Bangkok
€79.01 — Koh Tao ➡️ Bangkok
€87.19 — Bangkok ➡️ Kuala Lumpur
€61.24 — Kuala Lumpur ➡️ Langkawi
€19.19 — Penang ➡️ KL
€23.26 — KL ➡️ Singapore
€382.74 — Singapore ➡️ Bali
€389.36 — Bali ➡️ Chiang Mai
Total cost: €3,514
Extra radiation: 480 μSv
Trip purchases
🔥 €524.00 — Insurance
💉 €260.00 — Vaccines
🎒 €218.95 — New backpacks
👚 €84.00 — Clothes
🐠 €423.00 — Dive gear (2 snorkels, 2 dive computers, 1 hooded vest)
📱 €165.00 — New phone (Xiaomi Mi A2)
☠ €576.12 — Macbook repairs
Spending breakdown
🍴 €7,823 — Food
🏚 €5,947 — Lodging
🍻 €3,210 — Booze
🚕 €2,019 — Transport
🎉 €656 Daily — activities
🛂 €388 — Visas
💅 €195 — Toiletries
💵 €160 — ATM Fees
🧼 €76 — Laundry
🌍 €73 — Internet
💰 €213 — Misc (fines, gifts, bribes etc)
We also have some other interesting stats and we’ve put together a few of our highlights/low moments.
Other interesting stats
🥵 Average temperature — 28℃/82℉
👾 Average internet speed — 23Mbps
🏝 Place most time spent — Chiang Mai (will be 60 days on 1st Jan)
💰 Place most money spent — Canggu (€3,379.78)
🌇 Favourite new place — Medellín
🏙 Favourite revisited place — Chiang Mai
These stats are from Nomad List — you can see more stats, our travel plans, and more on my profile.
Some highlights 🙃
⛰ Visiting Machu Picchu
🏜 Sandboarding in Peru
🦎 Feeding a hungry iguana in the park
🌊 Swimming with Sea Lions in the freezing ocean
🐠 Rescue Diver certification in Utila
🐬 Snorkelling with dolphins
🔫 Shooting range in Budapest
🏮 Lantern festival in Chiang Mai
Some lowlights 😌
🛫 Sleeping on the floor in Miami airport to save money flying to Europe
🎣 Cleaning fishing line and hooks out of the reef
🐡 Getting stung while diving and having an itchy rash for weeks
🤢 Eating a deep fried creamy meat bread thing in Budapest
That’s our 2019 all wrapped up! I know there’s still a couple of weeks left, but we did our 2018 retrospective on 15th December last year and are keeping that tradition!
I hope you enjoyed this post and found some interesting numbers. Let me know if there’s anything else you’d like to know or any suggestions for stats to track next year!
Happy holidays 💜
Originally posted at travel.squarecat.io on 16 Dec 2019
