Magical Expeditions » Expenditure http://ankitaprasad.com/blog/ To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:30:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Egypt Expenditure http://ankitaprasad.com/blog//2008/12/egypt-expenditure/ http://ankitaprasad.com/blog//2008/12/egypt-expenditure/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:48:58 +0000 Ankita http://ankitaprasad.com/blog/2008/12/egypt-expenditure/ One of the challenges of traveling for me is budgeting. I love the concept of a shoestring travel  – living in hostels, meeting fellow backpackers, going through the lonely planet and figuring out  cheap and good food places to eat.  Sigh.. it is an adventure. Someday I will want the 5 star experience. Probably.

So we tabulated our Egypt expenditures and here it is (all  numbers are in rupees):


1.      Visa Fees including fees to the travel agent    

2080

2.      Flight ticket from Bangalore to Mumbai and back     

5165(Yes! those were the days)

 

3.      Flight tickets from Mumbai to Cairo and back            

24,310

4.      Felucca+desert safari+ First Class train ride from Cairo To Aswan +Ride from Kom Ombo+  One night stay at the a swank hotel in Luxor through the Backpacker Concierge.                           

14,866

5.      Money spent  in Egypt on stuff  like food, entry  tickets (these were steep), baksheesh taxis, and at the 2 places we got conned:)                    

13,480

 

6.      Total

59,901

Not bad! 5k over my budget. I had estimated and hoped that we would manage it around 50-55k. All these expenditures are per person. Also this total does not include any shopping that I did for souveniers. Never a shopper on my backpacker trips, I did manage to buy some beautiful papyrus from Egypt though.

Comments on point 4 and 5 :

4:We paid Backpackers’ Concierge half the money through wire transfer before we left for Egypt and the other half when we reached Cairo. We paid them in dollars.

5:We were able to keep a track of how much we spent in Egypt by withdrawing LE(Egyptian pounds) from the ATMs there. Saved us the hassleof buying dollars and converting them into egyptian pounds in Egypt.

I guess it was a job well done. What do you guys think?:)

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