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As you will ... but I think you are kidding yourself the way some of us have to kid wives  that you are being smart with any of this moving to digital as a cost effective measure. The $ for any decent digital such as a D90 or D200 is going to be five years worth of film. Not already being digital I think you are blithely disregarding how frustrating it will quickly get without a high end pc with lots (4gigs minimum - more desired) of ram and more hard drive space than first ever imagined. Laptops for the only rig for photos are akin to thinking you are well armed with a walmart disposable film camera instead of a F100. Yeah, it can be done. Yeah - it is cheaper. Yeah ... yer kidding yourself.
For a start, laptops have a high hard drive failure rate. Laptop drives tend to be small. Baking up and archiving is a real need - right away, not at some future date.
Digital is many great things but cheap and cost efficient is not one of them. Oh sure many here will keep on going on how great it is to take exposures for free. But the funny thing is that most of us here spend insane amounts on this hobby. (and don't tell me about your uncle bob who got a great deal on a camera and has only one lens and never upgrades and never spends any money. That is like the guy who shoots only ten rolls of black and white film a year saving wisely. More myth than the average) All of us who are enthusiasts have found that this digital monster keeps on needing to be continually fed (and I for one am weak! I can't resist! I don't want to resist! I'm mean ... they keep on improving things. I need, I NEED!  )
I'm not saying mind you about not moving on to digital. If you don't shoot much - film is the winner because you already have a body that in the digital world is the equivalent of a $2,700 D700 in build, viewfinder and frame size. I shoot a lot but $200 bucks of film keeps me in clicks with my F100 for a good six months. ( but I do shoot B&W and develop my own)
Lastly I would urge you, if you do bring a digital cam with you to get some time with it before you go. It is not as straight forward to get good results until one gets familiar with the peculiarities of digital in general and the particular camera in particular.
With that said though, and to get to your original question ... I would go out and get a used D80 or if you have a thousand bucks go and get a D90 and a few good fast cards. I have the D200, the D700 and the D90 right now. On a trip like that I'd take the D90 for sure. Not as visible as the other two. Much better high iso IQ over the D200 - in fact close to the D700 to surprisingly high values. THe D90 does not seem to need as much post processing neither imho. I guess it is tuned more for jpg shooters?
In any case the D90 is not the best at any one thing but on the aggregate of all the features I think it wins out - and does so at only a grand. Three grand more for lenses that do justice to the images ... and you are set to save on the costs of film. 
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