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Subject: Re: cost of travel in Mexico and Guatemala Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:34:50 EDT

Clendinnen Family wrote:
> Earlier this year we went to India for five weeks and managed to live
> pretty well on US $45 for the four of us. Now I know that India is
> incredibly cheap but I am just wondering how Mexico and Guatemala would
> compare, down on the modest end of the budget. Is travel there twice as
> expensive, five times?

For Guatemala, anyway, I'd say about 3 times higher. Central America is very
expensive compared to India, let alone the cheap parts of Asia. Transport is
cheap, but food is very expensive. The cheapest possible meals (what you
might pay 20 cents for in southeast Asia) are about US$2.

miguel
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