I am planning an overland trip from Bangkok to Moscow (via south east asia, china, mongolia, siberia) and eventually back to Antwerp (via Riga and Berlin, probably). It will last about 10 months.

How much money do you think I will need for this trip. I was originally aiming at 10.000 Euro, but will that be enough to cover everything? If I take out 1.000 Euro for the flight to Bangkok, visas, etc., that will leave me almost 30 Euro a day, that seems enough. But I wanted to check with people who've done this sort of thing before, so what do you think?

Haven't looked into medical/travel insurance yet and have no idea what that would cost. Any other costs I could be forgetting?

So after the ticket, you will have 9,000 Euros for 10 months of travelling.

Still have not gotten insurance. (Should not be too expensive)

Moving will always cost the most. I did take the trans siberian a few years ago and it was not that expensive then...

You'll need to bed down in some cheap locations for weeks at a time to get under budget. If you are moving all the time, I would say it might be difficult.

But then again, anything can be accomplished.l

I will probably take a volunteer job in Mongolia and a Russian course in Irkutsk, so stay in both those places for 1-2 months. I assume that would reduce my budget, especially since both offer cheap housing arrangements.

As I understand it, south east Asia is cheaper than eastern Europe, where I have always gotten by on a 15-20 Euro/day budget excluding long distance transport, so I assume I will easily be able to stay under 30 Euro/day there.

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