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| May 7, 2005 22:45 |   |
 | Hi, I'm due to go to chongqing in June for a month to do bit of studying over there. I was just wondering how much I should budget for my living expenses while over there? I have never been to china before, so I really have no idea how much I should be be budgeting for Thans heaps! |
| May 7, 2005 23:19 | #1 |
| Hi Kim, where are you from? Would be much easier to compare prices.... But Chongqing is quite affordable. You can eat in street kitchens for 2 or 3 Kuai which is less than 30 Euro Cents (dont be afraid it is the best food;), you can stay in Hostel dorms for about 50 Kuai or take a double room in a hotel starting from 100 (cheap hostel offering is rare compared to the size of this city), but since you study I guess you get a room in your college. Public Bus transportation costs around one or two Kuai, Cable Car over the ChangJiang is one Kuai as far as I remember. Bus to or from the Airport is 15 Kuai. 1EUR is 11 Kuai, 1USD is 8 Kuai. Where do you study in CQ - at Nanfang Translators College? |
| May 8, 2005 15:29 | #2 |
| Hi there! thanks so much for your reply! I'm from Australia. and I'll be staying at the Southwest Eye hospital. They are offering free accommodation so I just need to budget for food, shopping and tour costs. I'll also be doing a tour to beijing and perhaps beijing for about 2 weeks. So i'll be in china for total of 6 weeks. So if i budget for around 6000RMB do u think that should be plenty for the 6 weeks?? Thanks again for helping me out. I really appreciate it!! |
| May 8, 2005 17:14 | #3 |
| Hi Kim, Im not sure of your tour costs. But normally that should do it, especially because you stay in one place most of the time (and you have to work - not only running around;) and just visit Beijing - plus you are free of accomodation costs. Living costs are about one tenth of European costs. I remember one trip, travelling around in China for nearly 6000km including travelling and accomodation costs, food and little shopping for 4 weeks it was around 5000 Kuai - without missing the fun. If you organize your Beijing trip by yourself it should work out. Except you go crazy on shopping - and this can easily happen in China;) Of course for a worse case scenario you should always have the possibility to get some more money from ATMs or by traveller cheques - I dont have to mention this, I guess. |
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