1 year Backpacking. Help with my plan?

Hello,

I will be backpacking for a year with my partner starting from July in Spain and heading out of Spain at the end of August/ beginning of September this year. We plan on taking £10,000 (5k each). After Spain, our budget will probably be around £8,500 (We have family there we can stay cheap, hence not that much to stay in Spain for 1-2 months)

We have a plan of backpacking through South East Asia starting around January (best for weather etc). However, the problem we have is what we do before then. At the moment we are thinking of 2 options.

Option 1

Australia for 3-4 months travelling/some work to not tarnish all our savings. After SEA we would then either go back to Australia or do Japan-China-India or visa versa

Option 2

India-China-Japan and then, depending how long we decide to stay in India/China to Australia or straight to SEA.

We are leaning towards option 1 as if we go straight to Australia we will be able to travel with good weather and then work to replenish any money we need. However, we are cautious to this as we understand Australia can be expensive and the worry is all our savings will be blown in Australia and we wont be able to go to anywhere else for a long time due to our budget being cut.

Our plan is a bit vague, I know, but this was a decision to just go now or we never would. I would appreciate some guidance and comments on our route from anyone with experience backpacking or just in general regarding the budget etc.

Thank you.

Wrong forum for this question. You should delete and move over to the Australia forum.

Here is the space for asking about trips to the UK.

For what it is worth Australia is expensive, very expensive. I would however do Australia first, so that way you can earn good money whilst there and once you get to Asia you will feel like millionaires ... as opposed to paupers. As for weather Australia is massive so wherever you want good weather you will find. North during May - Sept, South Oct - April

Thank you for your insight.

Apologies for posting in the wrong section. I have now created a new one in the Australian forum. However I do not know how to delete this post, is it only the mods that can do it?

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