🇬🇪 Georgia or 🇨🇾 Cyprus
Which one, honestly
Georgia leads on nature, food and value for money. Cyprus leads on the sea.
A normal day costs about $60 in Georgia and $130 in Cyprus.
Side by side
- 🇬🇪 Georgia🇨🇾 Cyprus
- May, Jun, Sep, OctBest monthsApr, May, Sep, Oct
- $60A normal day$130
- 5h 30m to TbilisiNonstop from London4h 35m to Larnaca
- Not the drawBeaches and seaExceptional
- Very goodCities and cultureGood
- ExceptionalFoodVery good
- ExceptionalNature and hikingGood
- ExceptionalValue for moneyVery good
- GoodEasy to get aroundGood
- Shared minibuses and cheap drivers, the roads are the slow partGetting aroundA hire car, effectively required, there is barely any public transport
- The mountain roads from November to April, when the passes closeWhen to avoidJuly and August inland, when it passes 40C
Pick by what you want
🇬🇪 Choose Georgia if
you want the Caucasus, eight thousand years of wine and food nobody has heard of yet, on the smallest budget in Europe.
🇨🇾 Choose Cyprus if
you want reliable sun and warm sea with short flights from Europe and the Gulf, and a small island you can drive across in two hours.
Full Georgia guide →Full Cyprus guide →
And what the world thinks
🇨🇾 Cyprus leads by 20 votes.
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