this is our second cost-of-living video in Asia the first being in Vietnam and
now we've been in Bali for a month for
those of you that are new here I am Ross and behind the camera is my lovely wife
Bek - we travel full-time we quit our jobs back in Australia and decided that
we're going to work online to support our travels so we earn enough income
doing that to cover each place that we go
Bali has a bit of a perception for
being a really cheap travel destination and look it certainly can be
and for us some areas of the budget was certainly on par with that and others
not so much we have eight budget categories as you
can see and we think they're the most important areas so if you think there's
a different area please tell us and we will track it in addition to those
categories will also share two additional categories that might be
useful for people just to be aware of now sharing is caring
we love sharing this with you so everywhere we go we plan to do a cost of
living video and show at the end of the month what it really did cost for us to
live in this place and we'll tell you a little bit about what our lifestyle was
too
this is always the big one because we were two weeks in seminyak in two weeks
in Ubud. We went through one of the mainstream booking sites we normally
would go through an air B&B and find our own arrangement where you get a little
bit more for your money and you get that long stay discount so we normally do
that but given we were breaking up our trip here we split it up into hotel
rooms our total cost for accommodation was seven and a half million rupiah so
we hired a scooter and we did that in Vietnam as well and the one reason we do
that is there's so many little arteries throughout a city that you don't see if
you just rely on catching taxis in addition to that scooter cost we also
caught the occasional grab or if we're out for a few drinks and yeah we're just
catching taxis back and forth total cost here was 1 million rupiah's all right so
this is something that it's very close to our heart is food we love it with our
hotel accommodation get a free breakfast the whole stay in Bali look it's been ok
and but not really that sustaining so we are still spending a bit on lunch
throughout the day so our total was 2.6 million IDR
Is it rupiahs or rupiah put some comments down below if I'm getting that
wrong I think it's rupiah from now on I'm
gonna say rupiah so typical day for lunch for us is to go out and you might
get a smoothie bowl or you'll fill yourself up with something delicious
maybe some sort of local rice dish you go to one of the Warung's and load up on a
few bits it's not really that expensive but you can quite easily go through five
ten dollars Australian or US very fast being in a hotel we don't have access to
a kitchen so normally with Airbnb we would be cooking our own food so here no
real grocery bill more dining out bill is three point nine million rupiah that
tends to get you some pretty good food wherever you go and it's really your
choice what cuisine you eat. Bali has great variety we tried to go as local and
traditional as much as we can we do that wherever we go we're trying to eat like
the locals but you know there were a couple of occasional Mexicans and some
other bits out there too
coffee's so we work out in cafes quite a lot if we try to get out the room and go
to different locations we'll always by each of us coffee and so
that can quite quickly add up certainly not as cheap as Vietnam for coffees
so our total was seven hundred and seventy thousand I wouldn't say we had a
coffee every day but it certainly keeps you sustained when you're just trying to
focus and pump out some work
okay so water is an interesting one we probably
spent more here than in Vietnam purely just because of the climate out and
about trying to explore the city get around in Ubud and in seminyak and
it's hot very very humid you're sweating out a
lot so we're knocking down at least three to four liters of water a day each
good news is seven and a half thousand for a big bottle of water
and we would just have that strapped to us 24/7 we're always just knocking down
the waters so our total was 1 million and 20 thousand rupiah
we actually came off a very very heavy drinking period
through December catching up with
family and friends back in Australia hello everyone hello mum and so we just
decided that we would go clean so being in Ubud was a great influence we
ate really really healthy and we just dodged the booze
however seminyak is quite party style and we have been out and about a little bit
so our total for the month is about 870 thousand rupiah
Very exciting topic - bills
so what I consider the consistent bill is we have a really good travel
insurance policy that covers not only us for our health and stuff that but also
for the equipment that we have in addition to that we pay for Netflix we
also pay for a VPN I'll put a little comment down below with the one that we
use if you're interested in in setting up a VPN the cost of bills is two
million and forty thousand
two additional categories first, Gym's
can get them pretty cheap so a daily pass for fifty sixty thousand rupiah
through two 150 - 200,000 per day as well you can get
the monthly membership I didn't because we were kind of in the two locations
didn't really make sense and but total cost of that was around
five hundred thousand
okay second category is haircuts totally optional don't need to
get your haircut if you do like me I can get mine done here for thirty thousand
other places charge more but I've found a few spots if you go looking you can
find a local barber that will do it for thirty thousand as you can tell you get
what you pay for but hey I don't mind it tell me if you like my haircut
put that down below now Bek didn't get a haircut this month so hey our total
haircut bill was thirty thousand
so our total costs for the month if I add up everything
that we've spent on is around twenty million five hundred thousand
one more thing before we go I can't leave without showing you me in
the pool one more thing as always thanks for watching if you
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