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I NEED TO!!! yes it looks so pretty

that’s awesome!! yes it all starts with a savings goal and being pretty frugal from there to make it happen!

this is true, the video is in order by shortest to longest so we definitely stayed longer for the majority of our destinations and tried to take buses or trains as much as possible

it’s so hard to choose!!! my top 5 are Greece Turkey Oman China and Taiwan with a shout out to Japan!

😂 i haven’t watched shrek in probably 15 years but yes!

I saved money for several years from my 9-5 accounting job! i made it a priority and focused on that goal, then I quit and was gone for 384 days!

it really impacted my life in a positive way! I know i’m extremely fortunate to be able to do something like this however it really reinforced that if you have a roof over your head and food on the table, whatever stressful situation you’re going through will be just fine! I think so often we got caught up in the stress of living a regular life and we forget how lucky we are, they year taught me to never take that for granted!

@@sofi_lyrintzis Thank you for the comment. Being able to see how much blessing my ordinary life was is one of the insights we can gain when we travel away from home. Thank you for sharing such nice insight.

🙏🙏🙏 aww!! i appreciate that thank you!! if there’s any content you want to see or you want me to make more of, let me know!!

i was pleasantly surprised as well! I live in California so living here is more expensive than my year traveling 😅 Where are you that flights are expensive out of curiosity?

If you are not fussy about hotel, I'm pretty sure you can get a hotel in Sentral for RM120/night.

We got OBSESSED with this pokémon game called Pokémon Ga-Ole, it was originally in Japan but it’s also in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore (at least that’s were we played hahahah) and we ended up spending too much on the game because it’s so addicting 😂😂😂

yes!! surprisingly the Philippines is not cheap! I even spent less in greece! 🇬🇷

on the top right hand corner you can see three dots, if you click that and then description it’s all in there!

i loved it!

Attractions are more expensive here as we are using dollars so the range will be around from $10 - few hundreds dollars depending on the attractions for 2 person)

yes singapore was wayyy more expensive! it was like $150 a night for a hotel room 😂 I did love the hawker stalls though! I found accommodations were the most expensive and everything else could have been manageable if you really needed to stick to a tight budget! I did not do this though I ended staying at the airport hotel for two nights which was crazy expensive!

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Yes el nido is on Palawan which is a much much larger island! to be honest in my opinion there wasn’t much to do on Coron, we were in El Nido for so long because there was a typhoon causing our boat trip to be cancelled, so we were waiting out the storm in all Nido! We were originally scheduled to leave from Coron to El Nido but with the typhoon we flew to el nido and took the boat trip back to Coron 11 days later! Or else we would have stayed less time in both locations! I liked El Nido a lot and would recommend, Coron not so much unless you’re a diver, it’s mostly famous for its boat tours but they were incredibly crowded and touristy, the highlight was 100% the 3 day boat tour we did between these two places! (speaking only of these two locations)

Nothing to do in Coron? Things to do in Coron Paolyn Houseboats Hike in Mt Tapyas Hollywood sign, Maquinit Hot Spring Scuba, snorkeling Diving in Barracuda Lake, Kayangan Lake, dive in Japanese shipwrecked, Calauit Safari, Swim with Dugong in Calauit island, Big Dream Boatman tour, Coron Super Ultimate tour in Twin Lagoon, Banul Beach,CYC beach, Malcapuya island Linapacan island, check it out ,

hi!!

@@sofi_lyrintzis where is this loacated

it’s all in Malaysia! mostly kuala Lumpur and georgetown

I didn’t have travel insurance just regular health insurance which was a global health insurance plan, i relied on my credit cards that include some travel insurance benefits and didn’t end up needing it the entire year!

@@sofi_lyrintzis very big risk. If something really bad happened would that health insurance pay to fly you home with medical support? You are probably better off financialY taking out an annual travel insurance plan instead of the health insurance. You would be covered for so much more. I never leave home without it. Covers lost luggage, stolen items, medical care, and way more. The free stuff on your credit card is great, but read all the fine print. It’s useless if it doesn’t cover what you need. You do you though, just a suggestion, might even save some money.

Yes I did significant research on the subject matter considering I was leaving for a year, am very risk adverse and wouldn’t have any other form of medical coverage. Yes the health insurance covered flights back home for medical situation so. It was a global health insurance used predominantly by full time travelers and digital nomads. Most travel insurances I looked into don’t support full time travel and are more designed for short trips from a couple days up to 3 months which didn’t work for my situation, additionally these predominantly don’t offer certain health insurance situations like cancer care if that occurred, so for my situation and the research I did this was the best option for me and worked out great, which I can state now that the year is over. Believe me, I read all the fine print, I don’t mess around with my health :)

@@sofi_lyrintzis as long as you are getting the best coverage. You very obviously did do your homework, you’d be surprised by the number of people that haven’t and that don’t understand that travel insurance isn’t just in case your flight gets cancelled. I would easily say you know far more than I do on the subject.

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i do really want to go to Sri Lanka!!

I love using skyscanner! They have a feature where you can search “everywhere” meaning they show you the cheapest pleases you can go leaving from your airport! They also have a “cheapest month” so it filters even further so you can see the most affordable month to go! The key with flights is flexibility! Let the prices guide either the destination or the dates! If you have a destination and dates already decided the chances of finding a flight deal for it are low!

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it’s about $23 dollars for food each day for breakfast lunch and dinner, which I don’t think is bad at all! Especially considering we had pecking duck and twice we went to all you can eat Mongolian hot pot which was honestly one of the best meals i’ve had my entire life, so you can definitely eat for much cheaper but we had an amazing time with your food experiences, no regrets

also for transportation we took the metro every day, and this included a bus to get to and from the great wall which was about 3 hours so 🤷‍♀️

@@sofi_lyrintzis you took the tourist one, for chinese and it cost maybe 30 or 40 with the lyft thingy, def less than 50, the metro is like a few cents, even if all day, this never cost me that much, i had a daily budget of less than 15$ as a student and went there. ate malatang, 7eleven and noodles, in beijing choosing fancy or bbq can go high up very fast, also check prices ina advance through locals

@@sofi_lyrintzis each day means hotpot and real restautrants instead of small bistro? you can cut costs a lot and loose calories on the way especially malatang is healthy. it was the best travel experience, spent so little money and lost weight in a healthy way. you should try again maybe in vietnam. but damn yes beijing can be if you dont pay attention almost as expensive as the west. and the rents are high as fuck, you are forced to use shared space to cut costs and save more for the next trip. I stay there 2 months, if I spend this amount of money I could return back home hahah. maybe the prices have rizen

@@ChrisChristiansen the metro is definitely not a few cents, not sure when you went but this was just not the reality when I was there, also we didn’t take a lift and went to a section of the great wall that’s much further than the typical tourist one to not deal with a crowd, you can definitely spend less money than we did i’m not saying this is what you have to spent, simply sharing what I personally spent as a tourist who wasn’t on a super tight budget. I stayed in hotels, did all the activities I wanted to do and ate all the food I wanted to eat and this was my experience, it could have easily been much less and much more

that’s amazing!! where abroad did you live?

you have to click on the three dots on the top right of the screen and then click “description”

Yes!!!!! you might be the first person to know where that is 😂 I have family in Northern Spain so I’ve visited before, but idk why it’s so underrated!! it’s beautiful up there!

touch grass or go to horny jail

yes I want to!!!

because it’s not as peaceful as I was expecting 😂

there exists so many travel / hotel cards! I would recommend the points guys blog to learn more! However I always recommend the Chase Sapphire Preferred credit card as a starter! The way these cards work is you get points for your spending, for example if you go to the grocery store and spend $100 you get 200 points, etc. Depending on the card and type of spending you get different point amounts. You can these use these points to “redeem” them for different things, including flights and hotels! The biggest amount of points you get is from the sign up bonus however, some cards offer 75k points if you sign up for the card. To give a frame of reference I got a flight from LAX to Madrid for 20k points and a flight from Singapore to LAX for 56k points so it’s dependent on location, transfer partners, time of year, etc! It can all be a little confusing so let me know what questions I can answer!!

I'm Korean, but if you stay in a small room at Airbnb for a long time, you'll be able to use it at a cheaper price. The owner of the video is on a trip on the 11th, so I think it was 22 dollars per day for a long-term stay and a half with her companion.

yes as mentioned ^ this is for my half of the accommodations, also i think i got really lucky with the deals I was able to find at the time, I stayed at Ara Hotel in Seoul!

For japan, I do have all my cost breakdowns for Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto as well! I found it was about $60 USD per night while I was there and hostels were about $30-$70 as well, depending on how nice they were, I’d recommend The Millennials for hostels in Japan, really nice!

yes!! i really enjoyed it!!

i can’t tell if you think that’s a lot or a little 😂

@@sofi_lyrintzis It seems like a lot to me unless there's booze included but hey, live it up. 💖😎✌

Living in Korea where it's hard to find a meal for under $10 unless you eat 김밥천국 for most meals, $30 per day for 3 meals isn't bad To put it in perspective, I stopped eating McDs and BK because a basic meal is over $8 now and really, it isn't worth it

we also had some pretty fancy korean bbq’s which just one meal making up $50 USD so that definitely brought up the average, we did that a couple times it was so good! but no booze not my thing!

i do completely agree, i am incredibly privileged to have been able to do something like this and i do recognize not everyone can, not only from a financial perspective but from a health perspective as well. However I do think just commenting “rich people” is a bit uncalled for, the top 1% own 30% of the total worlds wealth and to group me in with “rich” in any sort of form is just inaccurate

Agreed. But unfortunately most of UA-cam (and other social media platforms) are videos of people being more boastful and attention seeking rather than informative and educational these days. I miss old UA-cam.

ya nowadays all social medias feel like a constant ad for something unfortunately

yes! nothing out of the normal but i needed to get my tetanus shot updated and i needed malaria pills! So i would just check your vaccinations and make sure they’re all up to date!

Okay so nothing too crazy. Thank you so much!

of course!!

thank you! loving it!

Enjoy! Making lifetime memories!❤​@@sofi_lyrintzis

yes!!! 💪💪

@@sofi_lyrintzis how did you save so much and over how many years?

it took about 5 years! since i started working I would always save, however i didn’t know what the money would be used for until a year before I left when I decided to take the year off! I tried to be very frugal, eating at home, not going shopping, not ordering drinks at dinner, etc. I highly recommend tracking your expenses so you know where your money is going and more so know how much you could be saving depending on your income!

i am not rich! i saved all this over 5 years from my accounting job and paid for it 100% myself! it was hard and i had to be very frugal but if you set your mind to it, you can do it

It’s great you’re being positive and I guess you’re trying to educate people in this but that whole “if you set your mind to it, you can achieve it” is very cliche and does not get you far in life these days. It is a huge privilege to be able to do what you did and it’s great!

not always! i didn’t get it because it was more expensive than just paying for the trains one way, i would recommend to build your itinerary and see how many trains you would need and then compare the cost, but like i said, i never purchased it!

for taiwan you probably need to spend between $60-$120 USD depending on the area and the time of travel! it is definitely not as cheap (for accommodations) as other south east asian countries!

yay!! so glad, i love making them!

people like knowing how much things cost before going themselves!

i’m ok skipping hahaha

taiwan is more expensive than the other countries in south east asia pretty much exclusively because of the accommodation! Also we were eating at way nicer places than we needed because my boyfriend is obsessed with food 😂 there are cheaper alternatives!

sometimes they aren’t as cheap as you would think! also there was always cheaper options at 6:00am or midnight but we didn’t take those