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The Trip by Numbers...
We believe it is interesting to look at this type of trip in terms of
the numbers, so we have provided some numbers that characterize our trip...
| Item |
# |
| Duration of trip (in days) |
186 |
| Countries visited
(not counting
Tibet as a separate country from China)
|
21 |
| Continents visited |
6 |
| Days in South America |
18 |
| Days in Africa |
50 |
| Days in Europe |
2 |
| Days in Asia |
57 |
| Days in Australia (incl. New Zealand) |
38 |
| Days in North America (as official part of trip) |
21 |
|
Pictures taken and saved
(does not include
pictures taken but subsequently deleted)
|
3735 |
| Pictures published on world trip portion of web |
774 |
| Pages published on world trip portion of web |
36 |
|
Pages of text in Dan's MSWord daily journal
(not
including 20 days handwritten on paper)
|
101 |
| Hours of internet access per month (est.) |
40 |
| Flights taken |
51 |
| Estimated hours in the air |
160 |
| Miles traveled (calculated) |
79,000
|
| Books read (non-guide books) |
31
20 Kristen/16 Dan (with
overlap)
|
| Guide books read |
13 |
| Solitaire games played on Palm Pilot |
8,788 !!
(w. 13% wins)
|
| Astroids games played on Palm Pilot |
299 |
| Non-junk emails recvd/sent |
2183 / 962 |
| Visitors to web site/pages/etc |
130 unique visitors per day! |
|
Hours spent
building/maintaining the website (est.)
(including
naming/organizing pictures, etc.) |
480 |
Without revealing the actual cost of trip, we found it interesting to review
the breakdown of expenses.
| Expense |
% of total cost |
Description |
| Pre-trip/Preparation |
13% |
Includes
Round-The-World tickets, laptop(x2), insurance, shots, new
clothes/equipment.
|
| Package |
28% |
Trip portion
purchased in a package, including most of South America, Kilimanjaro
climb, safari's, Palace On Wheels, Cambodia, Vietnam and Sun City. Of course, these
costs could have been spread across air and hotel and spending.
|
| Air |
24% |
Includes the 30+
extra flights not included in the Round-The-World ticket or packages
|
| Hotels |
14% |
All hotel stays not
purchased as part of packages.
|
| Car Rental |
1% |
Rentals
in Cape Town, Australia and New Zealand.
|
| Spending |
20%
|
Includes all
additional spending including food/entertainment, non-package tours, and big ticket
purchases, e.g., paintings, tanzanite stone, opal earrings, etc.
|
|
Total |
100%
|
|
And the distribution of cost across the continents against the proportion of
time spent in each continent. From this we see that Africa was the most
expensive, mostly because of the package costs, and Australia was the least
expensive, close behind Asia.
| Continent |
% of time spent there |
% of total cost |
| South America |
10% |
8% |
| Europe |
1% |
1% |
| Africa |
27% |
31% |
| Asia |
31% |
21% |
| Australia (including NZ) |
20% |
11% |
| United States |
11%
|
1% |
| * Pre-trip costs (not attributed to single continent) |
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|
27 |
|
Total |
100%
|
100% |
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