🇨🇷 Costa Rica or 🇪🇬 Egypt
Which one, honestly
Costa Rica leads on nature. Egypt leads on value for money and cities.
A normal day costs about $130 in Costa Rica and $75 in Egypt.
Side by side
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica🇪🇬 Egypt
- Jan, Feb, Mar, DecBest monthsJan, Feb, Mar, Oct, Nov, Dec
- $130A normal day$75
- 5h 15m to San JoseNonstop from New York11h 30m to Cairo
- Very goodBeaches and seaVery good
- Not the drawCities and cultureVery good
- GoodFoodGood
- ExceptionalNature and hikingGood
- Not the drawValue for moneyExceptional
- GoodEasy to get aroundGood
- A hire car with clearance, the distances are short but the roads are slowGetting aroundSleeper trains along the Nile and cheap domestic flights
- September and October on the Caribbean side, the wettest weeks of the yearWhen to avoidUpper Egypt from June to August, when Luxor and Aswan are unbearable
Pick by what you want
🇨🇷 Choose Costa Rica if
you want wildlife above everything else, cloud forest and two oceans in one small country, and you accept it costs more than its neighbours.
🇪🇬 Choose Egypt if
you want the oldest thing on this list, a river trip through it, and Red Sea diving, at prices nowhere in Europe matches.
Full Costa Rica guide →Full Egypt guide →
And what the world thinks
Dead even. The next vote breaks the tie.
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Written and checked by hand. Nothing here about visas or entry rules: those change often and depend on your passport, so check an official source.