Hey guys
It's Sam and Dan. Welcome back to our Channel
So we finally made it back to Vancouver from a 6 month worldwide trip. It was epic and amazing
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from the bottom of my heart and you know all the support you guys gave us along with this journey. Without you guys
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So today I would just want to answer some
highly requested questions regarding our trip and before we start,
I want to let my Chinese friends
so before we start this video, I wanna that my Chinese followers know how to
Turn on the Chinese subtitles.
I want to say a little bit Chinese.
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so what are the highly requested questions?
So the two highly requested questions are how we were able to afford our trip and
Second is how it actually cost for travelling for 6 months
So let me answer the first question
how we how we were able to afford our trip
so before we start this trip, we actually were both working full-time
Samar was a real estate lawyer, and I was working at a high-end fashion retail store
So we had been working up to the beginning of this year for 3 years
and we set aside quite a bit of savings for this and
we always have been dreaming to go on this long long worldwide trip and
to be honest, we were not very happy about our jobs and
You know this
This dream hasn't come to fruition until
Early this year when we decided to just go on this trip, and I think that's the best time before
You know we settle down and have kids and stuff
We had enough savings and the timing was perfect. Yeah, so we set aside
around 50-60 thousand and we figure it should be able to cover all the travel expenses the
mortgage and insurance and so on and we figured that if it's you know
if our fund run low, we would just go back to our normal daily jobs.
just come back home
So yeah that's basically how we afforded our trip. In summary we traveled
We traveled 12 different countries over 30 cities
for the last 6 months.
he made this really cool spreadsheet
break everything down
you are just gunna go though it.
So here you have it I created a spreadsheet. I break down to several categories
countries, duration of stay, plane tickets
Accommodations including Airbnb, hotels, food and drinks
activities including excursions and
Ground transportations mainly just taking trains
So here all the countries that we've been Hawaii US, Japan, China, Korea
Russia, Croatia, Slovenia, Spain
France to Italy cruise
UK and back to Canada, for duration stay Hawaii we stayed for 5 days and
We spent 656 dollars on WestJet for the two of us
ticket and
950 for the Airbnb
food and drinks
Hawaii could be pretty expensive
depends on the season and
It's roughly comes to total about 1100
activity-wise we rented a
Convertible and just driving along the coast. It's about $230 for two of us including gas
Come to total for five days in Hawaii. We spend
$2936
Japan we stayed for 11 days. We flew the Japan Airlines
For $1489 for two of us
Airbnb
relatively cheaper $789
Food and drinks
we ate pretty good food, a lot of very exotic like sashimi and
Seafood all kinds of stuff so it adds in total about $1798 dollars
activities we did a with this some excursion in Osaka and we went on the Ferris wheels and all other stuff and
the aquarium, so it gets to about $2060 but it's not super expensive. It's
It's pretty decent amount
And ground transportation, we booked the JR railway. JR railways are very expensive
but if you travel Japan for the first time, I would highly recommend just take the
Railway and cuz it can save you a lot of troubles. you basically get this
get this card (JR pass) and
You go everywhere and it's pretty much free everywhere
You spend on that $800 on that card
and you can check out where Japan vlogs and
get familiar with the JR pass next time if you had a chance to go to Japan.
China. we spent majority of our time in China because my parents live there and
we went about 10 different cities in China and stay about 58 days and
we flew some local airlines, but most times we flew Hong Kong Air and
Accommodation-wise it's about 50 dollars each day
so adds up and food and drinks again about 40-50 dollars, relative cheaper than US and Japan and
Activities we've been everywhere. We see the Great Wall. We see everything
so adds up to about $2300, ground transportation, which we basically
took trains everywhere because the high-speed
Railway trains in China are amazing very fast. Very stable. It's not like the plane,
it has a lot of space, you can move a lot and you don't feel very tired
So yeah adds up to about $2500. it comes to total in China, we
spent about
about $11,000
and Korea
We spent 4 days and here are all the costs it comes to total $2148 dollars
Russia
we went to Russia for the World Cup so it was an amazing time
Stayed about 12 days
Spent on
$775 for the air tickets and
Airbnb and hotels, there's not much Airbnb, just the hotel. It's the relatively cheaper. it would be a lot cheaper if you
Went on a different time, but because we went there during the World Cup
So it's a lot more expensive and adds about $100 each day
So it's about $983 total. food and drinks relative cheaper. We had amazing meals there
We had a lot of good food, a lot of ethnic food
And it comes to total about $1300
activity-wise we went on
soccer game and
Soccer match so it's could be pretty expensive. So
Comes in total about $1100. ground transportation, we took a train from Moscow to saint
Petersburg back and forth, it adds up to about
$1,000 and and we spent on taxis and the the subways and adds in
total in Russia, the total amount we spent it's very reasonable about $5,000 for 12 days and
we had a great great time and
Make sure to check my other vlogs about Russia
And Croatia we spent about 15 days. We went there during the World Cup journey and when Croatia was
Going to the semi-final and going to the quarterfinals and everything and it was a really amazing time
the coastline of Croatia is amazing. It's beautiful and
Food is relative cheaper in Croatia. We only spent about
$1,200 for 15 days, which is considered really very small. Activities
We rented a car and went to a lot of churches and stuff and cathedrals. So these are the cost we had and
transportation we rented a car and it's about $850 for about 12 days and
driving around the coastline
During that time. We went to Slovenia just for a day and spend about $150
Spain we're staying Spain for about 55 days. We went to
Castellon and
Valencia and benicàssim
We spent about $3,000 on the food and drinks. Ground transportation.
For all the trains that we took, it comes in total about $6,000 and we went on 8 days
France/Italy cruise and
about $3000 dollars and
UK, on all the way back to Canada we stayed in UK for two days and
comes in total about $700 including the plane tickets and
We came back to Canada on our flight for two by WestJet
which we were not very very happy about it, but we spent about
$2,449
So here you have it in total $42922 dollars
for the 171 days of the amazing six-month trip. We splurged quite a bit
we didn't cheap out on anything and we went to so many good restaurants and
You know we figured it was just a trip of a lifetime. We wanted to do it right.
Yeah, you wanna do it right.
We saved up for this reason
we knew we were going to spend it.
And then
You know, looking back, I figured we probably could have saved around 4 or 5 thousand which is about 10 to 15% of our entire
trip and
You know Samar may have some tips on how to save. how do you save along this journey?
Yeah
So I have a few tips on making the trip if you guys are thinking about doing a similar trip
Making a little bit more affordable
So the first tip is so we stayed at Airbnb
an hotels most of the time
So the cheaper option is staying in hostels
Yeah, so you could save quite a bit of money that way and Europe has really good ones. Europe has
very amazing hostels up to the standard and Asia
couple places are a little bit iffy. But most European's, We're pretty impressed by some of the hostels
in Croatia
they are all very clean and they are all in really good locations
Yeah, it's usually in downtown, yeah, it's very good, very convenient for all the backpackers and travelers
Yeah, and it's a great way to meet new people
for sure!
Definitely a good option if you try to cut down the cost. Second, don't eat out as much as we did.
we went to moderate to expensive restaurants just because we love to eat out
that's kind of our thing
we were in different countries and we would love to try the cuisines there
Even that I think we spent maybe roughly about $100 in daily budget
yeah and it depends on the countries too.
Yeah, but yeah, like I totally agree with her if you want to
You can cut down the cost of the trips
you can definitely like, you know even rent an Airbnb just buy groceries and cook yourself and
if you travel with someone, you can save a lot of money too
Now we even did that a few times too, and we didn't only eat at expense restaurants.
we actually cooked as well.
Yeah #3 recommendation is regarding flights.
As Danny mentioned, we kind of did this trip and we went with the flow. We didn't really have a set itinerary
We kind of had general idea of the places we wanted to go but we didn't have date set
So pretty much we would book our flights three days before we left
Sometimes maybe a week before
So yeah, we were stuck booking
Last-minute flights and wasn't that cheap. So if you book in advanced, you can get much better flight deals
Especially when we came back home
we booked our flight back to Canada
2 -3 days before we came
price was 2 to 3 times as much as it is normally.
a month later or even a month in advance, we would have saved $1000
which is quite a bit I guess
Yeah, I guess in general, when you go on a six-month trip, it'll be a little bit difficult
but if you do like 2 to 3 months and just have a general idea of where
general itinerary that the cities you want to actually cover
you can start from top to bottom of the
places you want to go and you might figure out the air ticket to find the best
Optimal travel itinerary, that way it will definitely save you quite a bit overall Yeah.
#4 advice is always go with the local transportation buses. We did that for the most part. We did take taxi sometimes
Uber. Uber is a very good option if the country you're visiting has that
I highly recommend it
you can save more money than in taxis
Taxis, but other than that, yeah, you stick with public transportation, take buses everywhere
you can save quite a bit money as well
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