Quanto HO SPESO in INDIA 🇮🇳 + 5 CONSIGLI per risparmiare in viaggio! [Sub-Eng]

Before starting with this video, I want to talk to you about travel insurance because I think it is essential, especially if you travel outside of Europe. I did it with Eimondo and I think it is one of the best existing travel insurances. I'm talking about it right now because only this week, from Monday, November 20, to Sunday, November 27, you will have a 20% discount if you subscribe to a travel insurance through the link I leave you below in the description. Usually the discount is only 10%, but since this is the week of Black Friday, they decided to increase it to 20%. The advantages of Eimondo are many. First of all, their app, which is very convenient and allows you to have 24 hours a day with an Italian person who will answer you in Italian for any problem or need you may have. In addition to covering you from a health point of view up to over 10 million euros, Eimondo will also reimburse you if you have to cancel the trip for any reason. There are also many other advantages and to have more information I invite you to click on this link that you find below in the description in order to understand which policy to stipulate based on your type of trip. You can think of making a policy for 2 or 3 weeks, or for a year, or for example what I did which is called long-term travel insurance that covers me for several months during the year. In short, with Eimondo you also travel without worries. How much did I spend in total during my one-month trip to India? I will also share with you some mistakes that I think I made and that I could have avoided and that therefore made me raise the total cost of the trip. It's been a few years now that while I'm traveling I mark all the expenses I support and to do so I use a very convenient and free app called Tricount. The thing that I really like about this application is that it automatically converts you according to the local currency of the country you are visiting and therefore this thing is very convenient. In this video I will tell you the total but before starting I still want to make a small premise, in fact as I told you I really marked everything in this application so there are really all the costs that I supported in India. But I excluded the flight that from Italy took me to New Delhi, the capital, and also the visa. This is because the cost of the visa varies depending on whether you do it for a month, a year or five years. The other premise that I want to make is that the costs obviously vary depending on the type of trip you support. Since I am making a non-stop trip and therefore I dream of visiting many other countries and spending a lot of time outside of Italy, I need to keep my budget as low as possible so I try not to spend money where I know I don't want to spend it. And so obviously the total cost of each single trip depends on each person and on the interests of each of us. This is just my experience and I hope with this video to help you understand how much you can spend and how much life actually costs in India. Before leaving I had set a daily budget of about 30 euros a day, so 900 euros a month and at the end of this video we will see if I was good or if I spent a little more or even a little less. I was saying, the highest expense, I'm looking at Tricount right now, the highest expense is definitely that of transportation and I spent a total of 380 euros and 72 cents. And here guys came out immediately the first mistake, the most serious mistake probably, the biggest mistake I probably made during my trip to India, that is to take two internal flights. Each of which, think, I paid, now I'm going to see, the first I paid 105 euros, the one from Jodhpur took me to Goa and then the second I paid 163 euros and 55 cents, the one that took me from Goa to Varanasi. So for a total of 268 euros and 55 cents, practically two-thirds of all the transportation expenses. And now I'll explain to you what I think was my mistake and how to avoid spending so much and taking flights. The first advice I want to give you is to have an itinerary in mind before leaving for India, so when you are still in Italy, study a very precise itinerary and try to follow it to the letter. By doing so, you can already book transportation from one city to another, from one place to another. I usually never do this, I always try to see day by day where I want to be, what I want to visit later, but for India it is advisable to book even with a few weeks in advance. This is because the prices cost less, you will definitely find much more offer and the main advice is to move mainly by train and bus. That's why I tell you to book in advance, because all Indians, all people move by train and therefore if you look for the ticket the day before or at most two days before, you will hardly find the tickets. I didn't believe it at first, but that's how it is. And so the tickets you find are perhaps the most expensive, those in the first class with air conditioning, which for goodness' sake is also a pleasure, but they will certainly increase the price. In fact, I paid more than 10 euros for all the trains I took in India. This one from Jaipur to Jodhpur 12.07 euros, the one from Delhi to Agra, which is the first train I took, 11.25 euros, etc. So if you manage to have an itinerary, a precise idea of ​​the itinerary to follow, you can already book trains or even buses, which are usually cheaper, before arriving in India. And this will definitely save you a lot of time and above all a lot of money. I was saying, what was my mistake? My mistake was that initially my itinerary provided the visit exclusively of Rajasthan, therefore of the region, let's say central-north of India. But after about two weeks that I was visiting this region, I was tired of the fortresses, of the chaos, there is a lot of chaos, there are a lot of people, there are a lot of horns. After about two and a half weeks I was really tired, I couldn't take it anymore. And so from Jodhpur, instead of continuing to see the other countries that are present in Rajasthan, such as Udaipur or Jaisalmer, and therefore continue to move with local means such as buses or trains, I decided to go south, to visit Goa. And it was a beautiful experience, as I showed you in the video that I leave here if you want to see it, if you haven't seen it yet. I was there for a week and it seemed to me practically to be in another country, it seemed to me not to be in India anymore. It was a beautiful week, I totally relaxed, the landscape is beautiful, there are palm trees, there is the sea, there is a lot of nature, there is green, and the people are also calmer. And I was really really good, I'm still happy to have come all the way down, but to save time I decided to take two flights. Even here, if I had booked the flights a few weeks in advance, I would have found them less, I took it practically two or three days earlier, and so the prices were much more expensive. Another advice I feel like giving you, in the big cities above all, use the subway, for example Delhi is very convenient, it takes you really everywhere, and it costs very little, we are talking about 5-10 cents a stretch, really. It's ridiculous, I didn't know it, I never used it when I was in Delhi, I used Uber. Uber is a very convenient application that allows you to save money compared to the classic tuk tuk or even taxis, which are still much more expensive. I very often used Uber Scooter, which even allowed me to save money, and the convenience of the scooter is that it manages to overcome all the traffic, because for example in big cities like Delhi there is a lot of traffic, and even the tuk tuk that remain very often stuck in traffic, and therefore it takes a lot to go from a destination A to a destination B, instead with the scooter it is more comfortable and faster. But I repeat, the subway is certainly the best choice, more economical and also much faster. Let's move on to the second category of this video, of my expenses, that is food. I paid a total of € 283.98, which divided by 28 days is € 10.14. Basically I spent € 10 a day to eat, I usually always have breakfast, lunch and dinner, sometimes I also allowed myself a snack. Surely the advice is that you have to be very careful, especially at the beginning, where you eat, because unfortunately in India hygiene is what it is, so at least for two weeks the advice is to eat at tourist restaurants, surely they are a little more expensive than local restaurants or even street food, which is very cheap, but this allows you to get used to your stomach and intestine, to the hygiene, to the Indian food, so as to try to limit the bad mood as much as possible. It can still happen to be sick, in fact I had a food poisoning after about 8 days when I was in Jaipur, but I think I caught it in Agra, the first time I ate in a really local restaurant. After this poisoning that kept me in bed for a day and weak for the other 4-5 days, I recovered very well and I never had any more problems, I always ate almost always in street food or in local restaurants, I always try to eat in typical local restaurants, where there are no tourists because they are cheaper, and I have never been sick again. So I repeat, you have to pay attention to food at least for the first two weeks and then you can gradually try to switch to street food and food in local restaurants. However, I would say that 10 euros a day to eat is not absolutely a lot, on the contrary, it is really little. Let's move on to the third category, which are the hostels, so all the places where I slept for 28 days and I paid a total of 184.27 euros, which divided by 28 makes 6.58 euros. Guys, I paid less than 10 euros a night, very little. As I told you at the beginning, I am traveling low cost, so I always preferred to stay and sleep in the hostels and therefore in the dormitories with the shared bathroom, simply because they were the cheapest. When I was in Goa I was very lucky because they upgraded me to the same price as the dormitory to have a private room with a private bathroom and I stayed for a week and I was really good, I had my room all to myself, but apart from that I was always in the hostels and dormitories. The hostels in India are not so modern, they are not always clean, however, if you are a person who is happy enough and who manages to adapt a lot, you can easily do it, you should not have big problems. Fourth category that we can include in the mistakes, even if it is not a real mistake because it is my passion and I did not want to exclude it from my life completely, and that is going to the gym. So I also tell you how much gyms in India cost. Before, in fact, when I traveled for two, maximum three weeks, I never went to the gym, I tried to fully concentrate on the trip and then when I came home I started training again, I started doing physical exercise again, but since I was away for several months, I do not want to lose my physical well-being and also the mental one, because I really like it, it makes me feel really good to train, go to the gym, and still make an effort, physical exercise, and so I decided to continue this passion of mine and for the gym I spent a total of 38.19 euros, I went to the gym a total of 11 times out of 28 days, and so I spent an average of 3.47 euros for each ticket, which is really very little. I called it a mistake even if, as I told you, for me it is a passion, it is not a mistake, but if you are not interested in going to the gym and therefore it will certainly be a cost that you will not have. But this, as I told you at the beginning, is a little trick that I do not want to remove and when I can I want to go to the gym. In fact, I think that today I will go to train here in Nepal. Another expense that I supported, this the first day as soon as I arrived in India, is the sim card. I spent 5.68 euros to have the sim card, I recommend you to buy Airtel as soon as you arrive in India because it is one of the most reliable and the internet has practically always taken me everywhere. I paid 5.68 euros to have 1.5 GB every day, practically it was renewed every day. So I had 1.5 GB every day, which is really a lot guys, it's really a lot. You can probably find even less if you pay attention, if you look for it, if you have patience, look for it. I did it in the first little shed I found and I was happy to spend 5.68 euros for a month. Sixth category, obviously having a small backpack, I have to wash my stuff and so I paid twice in the course of 28 days a laundry for a total of 7.06 euros. I usually do it in the hostels that make this service available, but they are almost certainly more expensive than the laundries you can find around. Ok, I was forgetting a very important category, that is all the attractions or activities that I did, because obviously they also have a cost. I spent 72.68 euros for what we can call both activities and tourist places that require a payment to enter. Among the activities I did, for example, yoga one morning in Palolen Beach in Goa and it cost 500 Indian rupees, so a little more than 5 euros. I did a boat ride at dawn in Varanasi, also that paid 500 rupees and then there are many entrances, many attractions that have a cost for us foreigners, such as Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world, the fort in Jodhpur, the fort in Jaipur, a mosque in Delhi. In short, there are many attractions that have a cost, usually quite low for us, but they must be paid anyway, if you want to see them, they must be paid. I repeat, I spent 72.68 euros for attractions and activities. Last category, I paid 11.07 euros and I called it something else. In fact, I bought a sunscreen when I arrived in Goa because I absolutely needed it. I bought a toothbrush and shampoo because I needed it and then once in Jodhpur I cut my hair. I put these costs aside and I spent 11.07 euros. Ok guys, we have reached the end of this video. Finally, I will tell you how much I spent for my 28 days spent in India. A total of 983.63 euros which, divided by 28 days, which are the actual days I spent in India, is equivalent to 35.12 euros. So a little more than what I had planned at the beginning, but I still stayed within the range. As I told you at the beginning, if I hadn't taken those two flights and tried to take the trains or the buses to move from one city to another, I would have saved a lot of money. Having said that, I hope you found this video useful. Let me know in the comments if you liked it, if it came in handy and if you want me to produce a video for every country I visit during my non-stop travel with all the expenses I have supported in that particular country. Let me know in the comments, leave me a nice like, share it with all the people you want and if you haven't subscribed yet, subscribe to the channel so as not to miss all the videos that will be released soon. Having said that, the video ends here. Thank you if you have reached this point and I'll see you in the next country of my non-stop travel. A big kiss and a hug. Bye!