India is one of my favorite countries and one of the reasons is because it's
so cheap and it allows you to stretch your dollar in so many directions you
won't know what to do with it so in this video I'm gonna tell you a little bit
about my experience in India for two months and how cheap it was for me and
I'm gonna give you some real-life examples from when I was there the food
is one of the best parts about India and it's also very very cheap so I did this
little challenge when I was in Udaipur welcome to India where I'm starting
my twenty-dollar travels so I tried to spend $20 for the day and it was
actually ambitious to try to spend that in a day walking around the city I took
through the streets where one plate of food and the street cost me 50 cents or
less I had about ten dishes before I couldn't fit anything else in my stomach
and then there's chai which is a staple of Indian cuisine chai is tea and the
way they make it kind of seems more of a mix of tea and coffee so if you're a
coffee drinker and you're going to India you might just kind of switch over from
coffee for a little while to do the chai thing while you're there
typically a chai will cost 10 rupees or around once 14 or 15 cents so the food
is so cheap if you get street food you're gonna be spending less than a
dollar if you go to restaurants slightly nicer places you might be spending three
to five dollars on a meal so transportation in India so as you can
see from the street view you have a ton of options when it comes to
transportation in India you have rickshaws which are the bicycles and
then auto rickshaws which you might know as tuk tuks and those are everywhere
regular taxis you have uber which is also very cheap you budget Airlines
overnight sleeper buses and a bunch of different classes of trains so since
you're a tourist when you're about to get in one of these rickshaws you're
most likely going to get a tortoise price I mean a hundred percent you're
gonna get a tourist price so you're gonna have to haggle a little bit and
get the price down if it seems steep but even if you don't do that it's still
gonna be cheap usually the price give you at the beginning it's probably
gonna be cheap for you if you're coming from a western country
it's just that locals will probably pay five times less but you can always make
their day and pay them the tourist price if you have the money make their day I'm
sure it really helps them out so typically if you get a rickshaw ride
across the city something that takes 20-30 minutes you're gonna be paying
maybe a dollar or two and then when you want to go from city to city and travel
all across India you can use sleeper buses
I actually really like these sleeper buses and there are different classes
but typically these rides when you're going from city to city they're gonna
take from eight hours to 15 hours because India is a huge country and even
with that look at some of these prices so first three hundred and eighty rupees
that's about five dollars all right so that's going from one city to another
whoo diaper to jodhpur 300 rupees so that's about four dollars and 20 cents
jodhpur - Jai summer next 945 this one was a little more expensive which comes
out to around $13 this was a 12 hour overnight sleeper bus and I was in one
of the nicer ones you even have a few choices usually when you're booking
these buses you have between 10 and 20 of these buses you can make different
times a day different buses you can look at pictures and all that so this was one
of the more expensive ones where I wanted a nicer one so that's why it's
$13 all right so I would take these uber rides and because of traffic in India
and how far things are apart sometimes it would take an hour to get somewhere
and look at my receipts all right so a hundred rupees
that's about dollar forty that probably was an hour-long drive a hundred and
twenty-one rupees which is around a dollar seventy one hundred and forty
eight rupees and this is about exactly like a two dollar ride and I was
probably in that uber for an hour and a half and then 73 rupees which is pretty
much exactly $1 so rickshaws are very cheap but you're gonna get the tourist
prices when you're doing that but if you get uber you're gonna get the local
prices so rickshaws are a lot of and you'll have to do that a few times
so you can get that experience but once you've done that a few times tried
taking uber a little bit you'll get more comfort you'll get away from the air
quality and the pollution and it's a very very cheap option and really quick
I took one flight on a budget airline when I was in India and this is what it
looked like four thousand four hundred and fifty six rupees
so accommodation in India is always a fun experience you never really know
what to expect but one thing you can't expect is that it can be very cheap so
you have the hostel dorm rooms that can start as low as $1 my average was around
four dollars a night but I wasn't picking the very cheapest option so then
there's fun and fun includes events concerts tours so in India many things
are very cheap but if you start doing tours they will be a little more
expensive but still not that expensive so let me give you a few examples so
this was my camel safari in jaisalmer this was one of the best parts of my
trip and it took the full day and then I got to sleep in the desert we had dinner
in the desert it was a full day of activities that
only cost around 20 dollars and then the Taj Mahal I know you know what that is
and you're going to go right so the Taj Mahal for foreigners costs around $15
and then there's so many things going on in India all the time there are
festivals and events and so there are there events like the push car camel
Fair I was there for a few days and that was free and I got to see one of the
craziest things I've ever seen in my life so overall my average day in India
would go something like this wake up in my $3 hostel dorm room get breakfast for
free included with my door take a rickshaw somewhere interesting
for around $2 get some street food for less than $1 and have dinner and a lasse
for $3 an uber back home for around $1 so that makes my average day in India
cost somewhere between nine and twelve dollars that's an average day so let me
give you a second scenario I did have days where it was more like this wake up
in a one-dollar hostel get free breakfast walk to my destination of the
day get street food for 10 cents get another street food dish for 10 cents
get another street food dish for about 20 cents walk back to my hostel and go
to bed so that makes some of my days in India
only cost about $2 so before you get too excited let me give you the third
scenario and another way that I would travel occasionally maybe once a week or
once every two weeks so if I wanted to pamper myself I've wake up in a private
room for about 12 13 dollars then I would get breakfast for around 4 dollars
go on a tour or camel safari for $20 tip the guide around five dollars and then
get back home for $0 so in this scenario and makes my trip around $40 for the day
so as you can see you have a complete spectrum there where you can have your
days where you're only spending one or two dollars the whole day and then
typically maybe around ten dollars a day in India and then you'll up the days
where you want to do more stuff and maybe it could be 30 40 dollars a day
but for me like I said typically $8 to $12 per day in India on a budget but not
really trying too hard there's a budget for every kind of person so if you want
to go to India just do it because India is the place where you can travel if you
don't have much money all right asking me questions below leave some
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