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Any good advices for Southeast Asia travel? Budget?

• The question may seem a little to vague, but here is what I was trying to ask. I am a college student, I want to travel Southeast Asia by myself or maybe with one or two friends, maybe a 1/1.5 month travel around the region. As always the problem is the money or the bloody budget. I do not work, I am still dependent on my parents, I don't want to ask my parents to finance this trip because they already pay my college tuition and else; as well because I want this to be fruit of my effort and sacrifices. Maybe not going out to parties and not buying drinks, avoid expensive eating, getting a job, I need advices in this sort of topic, because I feel I'll become a loser or maybe my friends will see me as a psycho/no life. Anyone has any experiences? maybe they will give me confidence to embark in what seems to be an unforgettable journey, also adding that the journey starts the day you put some initiative to this project. A little background of myself. I am eighteen years old, I am currently in university in Mexico City, but my place of origin is San Diego/Tijuana (Cali. region). I posses both American and Mexican nationalities. I speak spanish, english, and french fluently. I have traveled to some places alone and with groups so the actual traveling adaptation won't be a problem, aside from the fact that I think of myself as a different and peculiar being, just the things stated above. Constructive criticism people! Thanks in advance to all!

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  My first thought was that you might try to teach English to make money while you're away. That would cut into tourist time, and mostly limit you to visiting the place where you have the job and its close surroundings. Unfortunately, I did a lazy web search ("teach English in Thailand" and "teach English in Vietnam"), and found that it's really difficult to get a teaching job without a degree and certification to teach second-language English. I can't imagine any other sort of job you might get that would pay enough to be worth the time; you'd be better off saving up by working in San Diego before you leave than taking a lot of time away from tourism working for a pittance. Another possibility would be to work for a charitable or foreign aid organization. Without a skill that's important to the organization (for example, medical skills for Doctors without Borders, religious persuasion for a church, etc.), you're not likely to get paid, but they might trade housing for volunteer work. Your school may have a resource center that can advise you about that. A third possibility is a study-abroad program. Your school should have a resource center that can advise you about that; a US school definitely would. (If yours doesn't, you may be able to beg advice from a US school, or have friends at a big US university ask theirs for you.) As for costs, a lazy web search for youth hostels showed me that they're still an amazingly inexpensive way to stay. For example, I found one in Bankok for about $12 per night. I assume food is inexpensive too, though I didn't check. The international flight is the real killer; in a search of various cities, I found nothing under about $1200 from San Diego, and $1600 from Mexico City.