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Traveling for: On hold
Currently in: Madison, USA
Next stop: Kathmandu, Nepal



Walkabout Statistics

This page has some statistics about my walkabout, the round-the-world trip I took from September 14th, 2012, when I landed in Jakarta, to May 21st, 2014, when I got home to Madison. Everything here covers only those twenty months. Later trips, like the 2016 Pacific Northwest road trip and the 2017 southern Africa overland, show up on the map but aren't counted here. If you're curious about something that isn't listed here let me know and if it's not too much trouble I'll gladly add it.

On the walkabout I went to 214 unique locations in 22 countries (not counting the US, where it ended), covered roughly 97,275 km between them and spent an average of 2.4 days in each place.


Country costs during the walkabout:

Indonesia
$37.88 / $31.58 / $28.02
Singapore
$243.00 / $125.00 / $125.00
Malaysia
$31.26 / $24.85 / $21.44
Brunei
$30.00 / $30.00 / $30.00
Philippines
$60.63 / $60.63 / $55.75
Cambodia
$48.80 / $44.80 / $42.80
Myanmar
$29.92 / $29.08 / $27.15
Thailand
$41.50 / $40.50 / $32.71
Vietnam
$36.05 / $35.44 / $35.44
China
$35.97 / $25.90 / $25.90
South Korea
$58.92 / $58.92 / $37.33
Japan
$96.92 / $96.92 / $84.62
Taiwan
$30.10 / $28.40 / $27.40
Hong Kong
$86.71 / $83.00 / $83.00
Mongolia
$30.30 / $28.63 / $23.33
Nepal
$22.82 / $21.03 / $20.13
India
$18.40 / $17.57 / $17.57
Israel
$21.50 / $21.50 / $21.50
Turkey
$30.81 / $30.81 / $25.60


- Cost per day for survival
- Adjusted cost per day
- Absolute cost per day

This chart shows the average amount I spent per day in each country. The absolute cost is the total amount of money I spent in the country divided by the number of days I spent there. The adjusted cost removes unforeseen expenses that could have occurred anywhere, like a new laptop or cell phone. The cost for survival also removes special(and usually expensive) activities like scuba diving or rock climbing. All costs include travel, phone service and the like. Small countries that I spent little time in like Singapore and Brunei can be misleading since travel costs represent a disproportionately large portion of the daily cost, as it does with island nations like the Philippines where I had to do a great deal of air travel. Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Jordan aren't listed because I don't have cost records for them. The amount that I couchsurf, hitchhike and travel with others also obviously has a great impact. I didn't spend money on housing the first month I was in Indonesia. Splitting room and transportation costs with others also makes things cheaper.


Breakdown of travel type

This graph shows the primary transportation method used to get between large destinations on the walkabout. Usually a combination of methods is used so I try to pick the one that took the longest. The breakdown is by number of trips, by distance traveled is below. Distances are straight lines between stops, so the real distances on the ground were longer, and the flight out to Jakarta isn't included.

Travel type by distance