Dear /r/travel,
this will be my first serious post, so bear with me here.
Me and my girlfriend are planning a trip around the world this and next year. The countries we are about to visit are Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New-Zealand, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and eventually Brazil. A lot of the countries we are about to visit are countries where haggling will be a standard part of the day.
Because haggling in an unknown country is always tricky, it helps to have a base concept of the prices in that country. It is for this purpose that I dedicate this post.
I would like to invite you all to contribute your prices and/or what you deem are reasonable prices.
To kick things off I'll add a few prices from Cameroon(My GF stayed there for 6 months).
Cameroon: Currency: CFA (1euro= 650CFA 1USD=500CFA)
*Taxi*
- rural: 100CFA/5min
City: 200CFA/5min
*Food*rural dishes: 200-500CFA e.g. rice with beans, plantains with fish,....
City snacks: 500-1500CFA
Restaurant: 2500CFA(average)
banana: 100-200CFA/bundle
avocado: 50CFA
Mango: 50CFA
union: 100CFA/bag
Tomato's: 100CFA/bag
Maggi cubes(seasoning) 1500CFA/bag --> pro tip a good present when visiting people in their home
*Drinks(50cl)*local city bar 500CFA
rural 650CFA
hotels and restaurants 1500CFA
*Misc*Internet: 300CFA/hour
Printing: 100CFA/page
Fabrics: 1000-2000CFA/meter
I know this isn't a complete list, but I hope this information will be of use. There are always prices that are set(restaurants, hotels, grocery stores,...), I tried to keep them out of the list.
TL;DR Post the local prices of a country to make haggling easier for other /r/travelers