There are travel guides out there that will give you an estimate of what a budget version of traveling in a particular country should cost.

Lonely planet, which may not quite exist the way it did in the 90s and 2000s would give you a good range of budget accommodations and expected costs for meals and other entertainment so you could work out an approximate dollars per day you need.

So now that you know that you can spend up to $30 a day and stay a month, you can now go see if you can actually stay for 10-15 bucks a night and feed yourself for less than $15 or whatever.

,consider that When you stay on the road in smaller towns away from the most bustling, booming tourist areas, you will find better priced accommodations and cheaper food.

If you aren’t afraid of street food, it’s usually also so much cheaper. We tend to get local advice for best local places of good value, and check them out. We've generally found the food to be regularly better and almost always materially cheaper.

The hardest thing is to work out what level of accommodation you’re willing to tolerate just to save money.

It has to be safe and at least somewhat comfortable. But I’ll take a hit on the quality of my accommodations so that I can eat more and better food and do more interesting things that come with a cost.

I also like to stock up on breakfast and lunch type foods from local fruit markets, and groceries anyway. Kind of depends how cheap food in cafés are on the street is to begin with

And of course, alcohol! If you want to drink, even where it is cheap, it can still add up fast.