continuing to iron out my route particularly in europe. I've pretty much mapped out se asia entirely. I plan to hire a moped in Bali and travel that way but Indonesia is really ramping up their tourist laws so I might not even be allowed by the time I get there :(
I'm also planning for at least three workaways and some of the favs I've found are: a durian farm in West Java, cleaning beaches in Langkawi, maybe one in Cambodia, a party hostel in South Korea and hopefully a family stay in Japan. I also am definitely doing a week volunteering at an elephant sanctuary in Thailand but I'll be paying $500 to do that so it doesn't really count as a period where I can expect to not pay for board/meals.
BUDGET for se Asia is starting at $20-$30 (AUD) a day for around $800 a month. this will hopefully give me a little extra money for things like island hopping in the Philippines, bungee jumping and some theme parks (you KNOW a bitch loves a theme park). this budget will have to be pushed higher for Korea and especially Japan, which is why I want most of my time there to be workaways and also be more brief, maybe 2 weeks in both :)
I'll only be in middle east for about a month; 1 week in Pakistan, 1 week in Jordan and maybe 1 week in Lebanon and 1-2 weeks in Turkey with a couple days in Cyprus snuck in there. I really want a workaway in Pakistan, I've found one family in North Pakistan that would be amazing as staying in family home in Pakistan is on my bucket list aha.
I have all of Jordan planned out: few days in Amman, hire a car and drive to the Dead Sea for 1 night, drive to Wadi Rum for 1-2 nights and visit Petra for 1-2 days.
then I want to workaway in Lebanon. I thought about maybe doing one that helps refugees in the Syrian border but I feel like that'd be uhhhhh a kind of weird move idk I'll only be there for a week and I know nothing about humanitarian refugee projects, I feel like I'd be a hindrance and not there for the right reasons, so I'm going to do an eco hostel one :)
for Europe budget is much tricker, and my standard will be $50-$60 (AUD) a day for a monthly budget of $1100. HOPEFULLY I will be extremely conservative up until then so I'm not literally begging for food over there aha.
I would love to do workaways in Greece, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden/Norway, Italy and maybe France or Germany, but of course that's too many to dedicate so much time (workaways usually ask for at least 2 weeks but usually a month). so I gotta choose where I'll really really want to stay a while, which I'm thinking Scandinavia to see snow and the northern lights, and then in the south like Italy or France. definitely ones in Greece and Croatia though, gimme those beached nomnomnom. I also have a friend in Austria that I can hopefully crash for a few weeks to recharge djdjjsjs