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Work it all out then double it.

I've always worked on the principle that you can pretty much go anywhere and do anything for £1000 a month if you can budget yourself pragmatically for the place you are. But then again, the pound is in the toilet so that's probably £1500 a month now.

Camp when you can, don't live in expensive bars, don't buy a BMW etc

Travelling in a group is cheaper. Lots of expenses shared.

Drinking and partying will burn through your budget like wildfire.
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Work it all out then double it.
Exactly this. Figure all costs as carefully as possible, without kidding yourself about the things which may not fit your desired self-image (Guided tours? Plush accommodations? Sit-down meals in the expensive restaurants where the ex-pats all go? Or maybe a/c cabins on the riverboats while all the "authentic" overlanders string hammocks on the decks....?). Then double that amount, and you'll arrive home with some minor funds to get resettled, which should be a part of your budgeting anyway.

With more specific experience overlanding on a bike, your advance calculations might become more realistic--maybe so realistic that you can get away with multiplying by a factor of 1.5 rather than 2. Me, I've never achieved this degree of realism on a long trip. Once you graduate beyond trips of a couple of weeks or venture deep into faraway continents, things tend to get more expensive, never less.

Then again, this is why the abbreviation "YMMV" was invented.

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