How Much Does It Cost To Cycle Around The World (Shocking result comparing to Backpacking)

-So how much money do you need to cycle the world?
You need $300 USD minimum per month for mostly food and accommodation. That is 10$ a day, $3,600 a month.
You need around $1,200 for tour, visa, maintain, transportation, insurance, and others.
You need $5,000 a year minimum included flight to cycle on the one of three routes.

-How about Initial purchase?
If you don’t have any camping gear and bicycle, then you need to spend a minimum $2,000. I always think good camping gears are more important than expensive bicycle cause expensive camping gear can make your trip easier. But an expensive bicycle like costing $3,000 doesn’t change much. And this is not a race, so there is no point to cycle faster. If you have all gears already before starting, you might need to spend only $500 for extra stuff. I saw a few cyclists traveling with a real cheap bicycle that it’s possible to spend $500 for everything.

-Total how much do you need?
You need at least $7,000 included gears and everything to cycle the world. I must tell that this is an extremely small budget and this is quite hard to survive. But still, it’s somehow fun and I see many people cycled the world with this small budget.

-What kind of other budgets there are?
Some crazy people cycle the world with only $2,500 per year. I can’t imagine how it’s like as to cycle the world with $5,000 was extremely hard for me. With $5,000 yearly budget, I could stay at cheap hostel or hotel only sometimes. And I could get only $1-$3 meal that it’s very hard to go to a restaurant which costs like more than $10. For tour, I had only one or two impressive thing per year like visiting Serengeti Safari tour for three days, $300.
If you spend around $12,000 a year or more than that, your trip would become easy and you can try different dish at the restaurant around $10 meal. You can have different tours more. As you spend more money, your travel becomes comfortable.

-How is different from Backpacker budget?
If you want to travel the world with $5,000 as a backpacker, You have to be a hitchhiker. For a backpacker, the minimum budget is $12,000 as you have to take a transportation all the time and pay hostels as you don’t carry camping gears. $24,000 is common budget for a backpacker for world tour.
As you see, cycling world cost only half price than backpacking as they save up on accommodations and transportation.
===Hello, it's Jin===
I have traveled with my bicycle since Sept 2011 through North America, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. My channel is all about my traveling. I have uploaded about travel vlog, adventure, cycling, street food, local food, gears, review, information, local people and more.
Thanks,
Jin

00:00:00 Introduction.
00:00:14 What’s cycling the world?
00:00:50 How long takes?
00:01:36 Why same cost for every continent?
00:02:45 How much does it cost monthly?
00:03:10 How much Initial purchase?
00:03:52 Total how much do you need?
00:04:19 What kind of other budgets there are?
00:05:22 How does it cost for Backpacking?
00:05:52 My own trip expenditure
00:07:43 Ending

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===Hello, it's Jin===
I have traveled with my bicycle since Sept 2011 through North America, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. My channel is all about my traveling. I have uploaded about travel vlog, adventure, cycling, street food, local food, gears, review, information, local people and more.
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[Ronberthold]

You are sweet and smart. Your experience is priceless and your videos are great down to earth and very personal and so touching. Thank you.

[stevenschenck]

I have many reasons in my head not to do an extended bike tour - then I watch you and start thinking everything is possible and I could try at least a moderate trip... Perhaps I will watch one of your videos and walk out the door. I admire you very much.

[christianwuethrich]

I met a cyclist in South America who planned to stay 6 month with USD 6000 but he ended staying 12 month because he managed to spend only USD 500 per month. You are an incredible person Jin and there is not enough people like you in this world.

[xlxrisp]

I am not a cyclist nor am i interested in cycling. But i truly find you amazing and i love hearing your stories. Thank you for sharing! 💕

[HorshamHaberstroh]

I’m not going to cycle the world, I simply feel better watching your videos!

[RoadDestination]

If you just cycle, free camp and cook yourself it can be extremely cheap. Many people do it for just a few hundred dollars a month. Most of the costs are due to overhead (insurance, bicycle maintenance etc) and food. After that it depends a lot on where you go and how much luxuries you want. I remember getting sticker-shock after arriving in Sydney. Had traveled extremely cheap for a while, just food and a couple of dollars on national park camp sites. Then in Sydney just 2 or 3 nights in a hostel was more expensive then all my expenses the month before....

[taehyunna]

In this video, I can feel the experience of a tough adventure, even without a scene of riding. Great, Jin!

[philipdavis]

Thank for this Jin, its great to have some realistic channels like yours. I've hosted in Warmshowers for many years so I've met a lot of people starting their cross-europe to Asia trips. Some have very unrealistic ideas of cost and how much they can earn doing this things like social media. The more 'real' information there is like this out there, the better.

[PoleToPoleTravel]

After driving around the world in 2019, definitely want to do it again, slower. Thanks for the info.

[Seemannsfrau]

Very good content, to the point, no unnecessary blabla and some numbers based on experience. Thank you!

[rex]

Thank you for taking the time and sharing this ...

[Hindukushsailing]

Now they have warm showers that host bicycle tourists. We had one family from France with two children 7 and 9 on tandems. They stayed at our house and they said they had stayed almost every night with warm showers host since starting in Vancouver to Florida. That is another possibility for cheap travel.

[RobMacKendrick]

Brilliant real-world data. Very complete; extremely rare and valuable. And let me just say, biking around the planet on just 5000$ a year is freaking heroic. You rock.

[TropicalZooms]

Wow! Interesting video. Incredible journey. Best of luck with your travels. Really enjoyed watching. 😃🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️👍

[trelosenario]

Finally i found a video properly explaining costs.
Thank you so much.

[gabrielcantin]

I really like that your fully transparent and honest! Some people will say it's easy to travel for cheap, but it's not, need a lot of self esteem, hard work, time etc... But you gain from the experience! Money is important but you should never be tie to it. ;)

[abdjou]

I am very satisfied for the work and effort you put in . Great respect for you . Bravo and courage you. 🌹

[ClashWithLeon]

Wow not only are you courageous and probably braver than i'd ever be (considering u cycled around the world!), you are quite articulate and smart as well. It's evident through the in-depth explanation of your budgets & with the use of graphs/spreadsheets. All i can say is, respect & hope you're enjoying your stay in Australia! ps. i've been using your QR code scanner app ever since i downloaded it haha

[johnpayne]

Nice to see the actual numbers. Thanks Jin!