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We stayed on the beautiful island of Samosir surrounded the mystical Lake Toba in Sumatra at an expense of around $22 per day.
| Rate 1 USD = 10,800 IDR | Rate 1 USD = 60 INR | |||
| Expense Item | Per Day (USD) | Total Stay 17 Days (USD) | Per Day (INR) | Total Stay 17 Days(INR) |
| Breakfast | 4.17 | 70.8 | 250 | 4250 |
| Lunch | 2.22 | 37.8 | 133 | 2267 |
| Dinner | 2.22 | 37.8 | 133 | 2267 |
| Special Dinners / Eating Out | 2.31 | 39.4 | 139 | 2361 |
| Juices / Drinks Etc | 2.31 | 39.4 | 139 | 2361 |
| Accomodation | 6.48 | 110.2 | 389 | 6611 |
| Water | 0.83 | 14.2 | 50 | 850 |
| Laundry / Miscellaneous | 0.93 | 15.7 | 56 | 944 |
| Total | $21.48 | $365.2 | 1289 | 21911 |
We know its not easy to keep a track of your expenses especially while traveling but we did it. And we have renewed our love for PIE CHARTS.
Where we spent our cash:
1. Accomodation: Rooms are cheap at Lake Toba. We got a beautiful, spacious room with a huge bathroom at 70,000 IDR.
2. Food: Breakfast 45,000 IDR
Lunch and Dinner would usually be one dish each about each costing 12,000 IDR so average IDR 24,000
We kept our health in check and had a glass or two of juice each day about 8000 – 10,000 IDR.
One 4 nights we ordered Vegetable Pizza’s and always ended up getting a 2nd one.
Each costing about 30,000IDR.
3. Eat outs: We ate out only once at a place called Junia which was way expensive than Liberta Homestay and one meal cost us about 100,000 IDR at our friend’s recommendation. He later agreed that the food at the guest house we were staying at was not just the best value for money but most appealing to taste buds as well.
4. Sightseeing: All the sight seeing we did was on foot, but we paid entry tickets and hired a guide once.
Entry Tickets – 5000 IDR each to one stone chair and 3000 IDR to another. Guide at the more famous stone chair for about 40mins after a long negotiation session for 35000 IDR.
5: Transportation: These figures do not include expenses to and from island. While staying at the island, we enjoyed walking around hiring no bicycles or motorized vehicles.
For information on where to stay in at Lake Toba, click HERE
I always love to hear people travelling and having a great time for hardly any money. Thankyou for the breakdown!
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Katie,
This was the best value for money we found in south wast asia along with parts of laos but sumatra is still our favourite.
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hello guys
when have you been in sumatra?
bye bye cinzia and villiam
Cinzia,
We went there after malaysia in August 2013.
Stayed there fr a month. Are you guys still in Cambodia?
-Vikram n Ishwinder
Lovely that you managed on such a budget. Great that you have shared to inspire 🙂
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Indonesia will truly amaze you when you get there. As for lazy travelers like us, it is heaven.
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Thanks for sharing your budget. I am extremely bad at it. 🙂
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Renuka,
It took us a long time to form a habit of noting everything. On most occasions we end up spending more than we had planned.
The only way to keep track, is to force yourself. There is no way out
-Empty Rucksack
Life is all about having fun to the max. Money is vital but its not the most important thing for fun. A good set of friends and the zest to enjoy life is all that is needed. Love your blogs name empty rucksack is surely filled with loads of fun and memories and guess lots of goodies too.
Thanks Athena for visiting our blog. Hope you enjoyed it. Like we say life is too short to even do all things you want to do, to do something you dont want to do should be out of question.
Amazing how you guys managed on this budget & even kept a track of it. This share is quite inspiring.
Keep travelling & do ‘ve a blast you guys. 🙂 😀
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Nikhil,
First it was very boring, but after 4-5 days it became fun.
We found ourselves looking for our phone every time we asked for the bill.
Once it became a habit, we maintained this habit on all our travels after Indonesia.
More posts coming soon.
And Indonesia is truly the gem of south east Asia
-Empty Rucksack.
Thanks for telling us about this fantastic place which is also economical.
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