Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

budget for africa????

Country forums / Africa

Hi everyone! I am planning on continuing my traveling with a trip around africa and am planning on being there for about a year and i have been trying to find out how much it will cost me. So if anyone has done a similar trip (and done it cheaply) I am really interested in how much they spent! Also if anyone has done some volunteer work over there i would love to hear about some good organizations. Thanks!
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This one has come up before, but not in a while.

$10,000 is a good starting point. Some people will tell you can do it for less, personally I would want a bit more.

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Depends which countries you're planning on going to. Some countries like Ghana are extremely inexpensive, while other countries in French West Africa (Mali, Niger) are extremely expensive to travel in.

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Its really according the country - I had dayly budget between 10 and 60 EUR a day - on the same standard in diferent countries - I have been in 15 countries in Africa

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