🇬🇪 Georgia or 🇮🇸 Iceland
Which one, honestly
Georgia leads on value for money, food and cities. Iceland leads on getting around.
A normal day costs about $60 in Georgia and $190 in Iceland.
Side by side
- 🇬🇪 Georgia🇮🇸 Iceland
- May, Jun, Sep, OctBest monthsJun, Jul, Aug, Sep
- $60A normal day$190
- 5h 30m to TbilisiNonstop from London3h 20m to Reykjavik
- Not the drawBeaches and seaNot the draw
- Very goodCities and cultureGood
- ExceptionalFoodGood
- ExceptionalNature and hikingExceptional
- ExceptionalValue for moneyNot the draw
- GoodEasy to get aroundVery good
- Shared minibuses and cheap drivers, the roads are the slow partGetting aroundA hire car on the ring road, and a four wheel drive for the interior
- The mountain roads from November to April, when the passes closeWhen to avoidNothing seasonally, but the highland roads are shut from roughly October to June
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 Iceland if
you want landscape above everything else, and you have accepted in advance that it costs more than anywhere else here.
Full Georgia guide →Full Iceland 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.