Sunday, August 24, 2008

How Much Stuff Costs

1 USD = ~8700 kip
"k" means thousand

  • Private room with aircon, private bath, cable, double bed ~140k/night
  • Large Beerlao (640ml) in minimart --8k
  • Large Beerlao in western-oriented bar --13k
  • 750ml bottle Gordon's Gin--95k
  • 1L bottle purified water --1k (never pay more than 1k for the ugly cylindrical bottles. Name brand water will be significantly more)
  • Meal in a local place ~12k
  • Average meal --30k
  • Nice meal--60k
  • Very nice meal--120k
  • Pizza--50k
  • Small packet ramen noodles--2k
  • Baguette--10k
  • 3 pack Durex condoms--15k
  • Local condoms--seriously, go with Durex
  • New Nokia 1200 phone with simcard ~400k
  • Lao simcard--50k
  • 1 hour in internet cafe--4-6k
  • 7ooml bottle local whiskey--7-50k depending on type and quality

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