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Old 18 Oct 2011
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Question how much to spend?
Hi,

we are comming to SA, starting in BA with 2 motorbikes.
We would like to camp as much as possible and also try to travel low budget. Anyway, we would like to know +/- how much some of you spend a day while traveling the motorbike true the South & middle American continent.
Our trip wil go one as long we have the money, so it would be nice to know how long we can stay.
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The general consensus seems to be $50 US per person is about the low end of what it costs per day to travel in SA.
An average from what I have read is about $65-75 per person per day.

Others have claimed they can do it for under $50 us per day.

Thats travelling solo so you will obviously save on some expenses such as accommodation.

There are quite a few recent threads on this topic if you do a decent search.

hope that helps.

james
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IMO- $60/day is plenty.

Here's my budget:
Daily costs
  • Gas $10
  • Food $15
  • Accommodations $20
  • Incidentals $5
  • Fun $10
  • Total $60

I came to these numbers from reading dozens of SA ride reports and researching on here and ADVrider.com
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Depends on how far you get on $10 worth of gas. In Brazil, your $10 might take you 100 km down the road....but it's a loooonnnggg ride from Uruguay to Belém at that rate. I was spending quite a bit more than that on gas almost everywhere in Central and South America.

All of which is meant to suggest: read a few of the many other threads on this topic, then ask again if your question remains un-answered.

Mark
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Naomi and Albertos site has the most up to date to cover top to bottom.

Taking the Road South: The Trip in Numbers

We based our estimate on this and others, in US dollars, their costs include the Darien and all so have a good read.

AK, Can, US $88.00 per day per person depending on level of accom and how much you ride, see Marks comment on that above, more you ride more you spend, easy.

Mexico / Central $45.00 per person per day.

SA $35.00 / per person per day.

We qualify this by adding that the comparisons saw better economy of scale as a couple or pair for tenting, food etc as opposed to a single.

I think the US figure is slightly high but I also think the SA is slightly low.

Big thing comes down to tenting or moteling and mileage per day as Mark points out.

We are by no means experts as we have not hit the road yet but these figures are from HUers that have recorded stuff.

This will also be different once adding shipping etc in which will vary form trip to trip, we are spending in excess of $10k US JUST to get to the start line so that will faf our figures up completely if we were to add that in.
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extreme low budget
I did most of South America on $20 a day including gas....mind you I didn't ride everyday, camped a lot, and took cheapest accommodations...example in N Central Peru (Amazonas)a hotel was $3-5 a night, meals $1.25 USD....

I met a few riders doing the same.

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