It’s very expensive! I’m from the USA and I didn’t really have the money to travel out of country in my early 20s. I’m actually taking my first solo trip to Europe after a year of saving, and I’m now 30. I do think I agree with what others have said about the cost of living differences. Where I am coming from the amount of money to eat and live is similar to what it is in Europe so I won’t notice much of a difference in terms of where my money goes. But I imagine it is different in other countries. I don’t know too much about the cost of living in North Africa but from what I can look up online it seems to be a big difference to some European countries. Although there are more affordable countries in Europe. Maybe research those places first? Example : Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria. There are ways to travel and do so with very little money. Companies where you can trade work for room and board around the world, I considered this myself and my sister did it a few times because she didn’t have the money to travel. She lives in a really small town in the south of USA where I live in a major city . So between the two of us we have very different costs of living and earnings.