Has world inflation killed real shoestring travel?

[AssKissinger]

Are the five dollar days in India, Cambodia, West Africa and so on dead? It's been about a decade since I've traipsed across the third world. What's going on out there?

[Visitor K]

down here in central america, its definitely possible. mexico can be pretty expensive, actually, but once you get into guatemala things start getting real cheap.
i went through south east asia with a fairly limited budget a few years ago, cambodia was pretty cheap (except for the visa). and ive heard india is still pretty cheap for travel..
the value of the dollar might have changed significantly the past year and a half in other parts of the world, so im not sure about recently, but i know its still possible to travel on the cheap in central america.

[Buraku]

Taj Mahal's dollar refusal symbolic of greenback's rough 2007In November 2007, India's Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and India's most popular shrine, announced it would no longer accept the dollar, citing the greenback's weak currency status

Yeah Bush has been fucking the Dollar let's hope Obama won't continue the pesofication of the US currency


Well it depends where you've been putting your savings, for example if you've been saving in Yen its good cos today the Japanese currency is no longer like monopoly money, it actually has a lot of value today...maybe too much(which can cause nightmares for the big exporters). The Yen has a lot of buying power!

If the euros is what you bought back 2001, at 88 cents people would have thought you crazy to buy up that funny money
but then if you remained patient and held out with the euro you probably made a 25% profit.

If you put your savings in gold in 2003
WIN!
your laughing all the way to the bank

[Buraku]

If you find yourself crying about the loss of the greenback's purcashing power you can always move to zimbabwe and become a billionaire! sorry I mean Trillion-aire

http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/01/zimbabwe-introduces-100-trillion-dollar.html