approximate cost involved to travell around oz

err, you serious? what for? they won't get to see anything! I've never bothered to calculate the distance. How many km's/day will they have to travel? lets say they drive ever second day.
Anyone know the answer off the top of their head?

You are dreaming if you think you can do that trip in two months.Iusually do the top end every year for 3-4 months and I consider it not enough.My last trip would have probably cost me $8000 for 4 months for two people.That is quite cheap but do a lot of bush camping and live of the land a bit.

Hi Stuart
Last year we did the trip in three months, left (from Perth) 1st August and returned 1st Nov (we had to be back by the 1st Nov.)
It turned out to be one big rush and whilst we saw lots there was a whole lot more we wanted to see and couldn't due to time constraints. To do it in 2 months will be pushing it. We(two adults) have a 2001 petrol Prado and towed a 15' Coromal offroad C/van, we travelled anticlockwise , it was cold and wet for the first month and hot and dry for the last month- some rough figures for you - Total Kms travelled- 18391, Highest cost of fuel- $2.09cpl – Barclay Homestead (Outback Qld) Cost of fuel on departure-$1.43cpl, Cost of fuel on return-$1.34cpl(bugga!), Total expenditure $13500.00 (Approx) Cost per day- $147.00
Cheers Alanc

When we headed off we worked out to do the lap around the outside and down the middle was about 18500 km using whereis. We rounded it off to 20,000 kms then double it to allow for site seeing making it 40,000 kms all up. We have just clocked up 83,000 kms so we were a bit short with our estimate. That's along way in 2 months lol. Any more than about 200 - 300 kms a day and you don't have time to look around.

Josh

talking reality they are prepared to do it in 13 weeks as a reconnaissance journey

There has been some discussion in the past about costs on longer trips. At that time a number of people came up with the figure of $1.00 per km for trips from 2 weeks to up to about 3 months. It was based on fuel, bush camps with occassional stays in parks etc. It didn't include theme parks, restaurants, entry fees to museums and all that stuff. My recent trips to central Aus (2 weeks) and the Gulf (3 weeks) cost (in round figures) $5000 and $8000 respectively. (5000km & 8000 km).

Central Aus we had 4 nights in a caravan park; Gulf we had stayed in a friends house for 5 days... no caravan parks).
Hope this helps.

HaHa, mate i posted something like this a while ago when i was planning my quick trip.

I did a trip around Oz in 5 weeks, which included 11 days in Tassie. and please dont anybody try tell me i didnt see anything or have time to do anything. Yes, i would love to be able to take my time, but im not retired and i only had 5 weeks. Anyway, here are the places i stopped for the night on my trip.'
Broome-Meekatharra-Perth(2nights)-Albany-Norseman-Eucla-Port Augusta-Mt Gambier-Melbourne-Tassie(11 days)-Albury-Lithgow-Kempsey-Tweed Heads-Gold Coast(2 nights)-Maryborough-Emerald-Longreach-Mt Isa-Katherine-Wyndham(2 nights)-Broome. I seen all the things i wanted to see on my trip.

Fuel Cost; $2343.25
Kilometres; 14209km
Accomodation costs; $2000(hotel/cabin every night exc Tassie)
Average Diesel; $1.30/L
Total Litres; 1923 litres Diesel

Cheap holiday for 5 weeks if ya ask me. It was really just a scout trip to see what areas we liked and to see how we would like to do it in the future. Plus i got to see my folks for 11 days and tour around Tassie.

It was great and i would do it again tomorrow at the drop of a hat if i could. It honestly was awesome and i seen all the major things that i wanted to see. Im more of a bushie and dont like the crowded places, i prefer to spend my holidays fishing and drinking with mates. But this trip really took my breath away, and i envied every traveller out there, especially the old retirees who could just take there time and do nothing if they pleased. My folks toured for 2 1/2 years so i knew what places i wanted to see and which i didnt.

G'day Stuart

It depends on what you will spend your money on. We bush camp most of the time. Rule of thumb these days is that you will spend $1.00 per kilometre.

This year we were out for 54 days. We had 36 nights bush camping, 13 nights in Caravan Parks and 5 nights accommodated with friends (freebies but contribute towards tucker)). We drove 11,000km and the total cost was $4400 which equates to 40 cents per kilometre. Now this is immediate cost and does not take into account annual running costs or depreciation of vehicle and equipment(though my GQ has little left to depreciate...lol)

Cheers

We did Sydney, Wilpena, Uluru, Darwin, Broome, Perth, Sydney in 2 weeks 4 days and loved every minute of it. 15,000 kms and we saw all the main highlights. 2 months and I would get bored.

Everyone is different. I can't stand sitting still too long, may as well be sitting in the car. The shorter it takes the less it costs.

Mike

Well we got from Qld to Port Maquarie in 2 months.

We left Qld on Feb 2nd intending to take 6 months to do the full circle.

Now 8 months on we are in the SW and still a long way to go.

We went down the east coast, Gt Ocean road,Adelaide, up the middle to

Darwin via Uluru, KC and Batchelor, stopping all along the way.

then thru Kakadu back to Katherine and west to Derby, up to Wyndham,

down thru Broome and all the beautifulplaces on the coast.

We envisage we may take another 6 months to complete the trip.

Cost Dont ask Probably about $1.50 a k Done 28,000k so far.

Not hard to rack it up went looking at wildflowers from Geraldton 2 days of

over 400k each.

We are only going to do it once so intend to see as much as possible.

Its interesting going down back roads.

You never know what you will find.

Stumbled upon Brockies Memorial at his accident scene completely

unexpectedly by just cruising .

Could spend a month at Denham just taking in the view.

2 months Jeez the motor would never get cold.

Everyone to their own.

Would be easier and cheaper to by some DVD's and pick out what you want

to go and see from them

My wife said she could see it all on tele but now shes glad we are doing it as

there are just so many lovely places to see.

Like the Wetlands in Kakadu, Sunset at Uburr, Yellow waters,

The Horizontal Falls, 5 rivers lookout at Wyndham, Lost City in Lichfield,

Uluru,The Olgas, Katherine Gorge Geike Gorge. Cape Peron NP, Steep Point.

Get what I mean and thats only a few of the great sights we have seen.

Happy travels

Reminds me of a mate who went around America in 6 months and sent video tapes home to be saved

Almost every one was "This is the road from '''''''''''to """""""""".

Think thats all he saw LOL

Just for two weeks left now to wrap up our lap of oz and we will have been on the road for 4 and a half months....2 adults and 2 young kids though. We have done the entire coastline of oz minus a few places in the west and south due to poor weather and then we did Uluru instead though which we werent originall planning to do but so glad we did as part of OUR BIG TRIP.....

We are only young and have had a great time....we have done just over 23000km thus far and still have lots and lots of OZ to see and do next time and next time and next time....we have spent close to $30K over those 18 or so weeks which is nearly double what we intended to but then again doing the coastline of OZ we stayed and sightsaw at probably most of Australia's iconic and $$$ towns and highlights.....we have seen and done all the things we wanted to though staying a van parks 99% of the time.....you could do it heaps cheaper and if you have only TWO MONTHS like you say you will find most of your costs to go on FUEL....you will be fair hooking along to go right around in that time frame but I am sure it could be done but I wouldnt bother spending the money in that kind of rush....maybe do a half lap up through the centre and then choose one side of oz to see a little slower....

If we had the money to be away longer we would have taken longer and longer but how long is a piece of string and how deep is a young persons bank account like us for example. We made our trip happen by selling our house to fund it and it was well worth the sacrifice.....

We spent a week in Darwin and that was enough for us (we did Litchfield and Berry Springs in that week as well). Other travellers go there for 3 months.....we did Kakadu on the way back out of Darwin and stayed for 3 days (that was enuf for us - saw what we wanted and left). other travellers stayed weeks and weeks. We stayed 7 nights in Cairns, 7 nights at the GOld Coast, 11 nights in Broome, 6 nights in Perth etc etc we still spent ample time in places that we felt we like and warranted it....that doesnt mean to say it was the right amount of time but we did stop for long periods by our means at certain places....

Allow about $1200-$1500 per week if you are planning on staying at van parks, doing tours, buying souvenirs etc etc. It will be less again and again if you are planning free camps and not spending much on other things obviously.....everyones idea if obviously different on what money they should spend on different things.....our fuel bill so far for those kms too by the way is $4500 (2.8lt holden rodeo diesel towing a 16' pop top caravan) which we are pleased with.

I have read somewhere as well to allow $1 per km and that is how much money you would need....so for us 23000km so far travelled and we are about $6K about that so maybe we spend more on certain things so that calc is prob a fair one....given that we have 2 kids with us as well.....

Have a good trip and you can always go back to your favourite places again and again one day with more time....

Cheers

thanks to all who replied ,i have conveyed all relevant info and they have taken info given on board

Go to www.blognow.com.au/awol
Look at the last entry and you will find the breakdown on our trip July-Oct 08.
Has many costs ,distances etc. that you may find of interest.
We had a timetable we used as a guide, got 9 days behind and had to bypass most of SA due to a committment.