🇬🇪 Georgia or 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
Which one, honestly
Georgia leads on cities. Sri Lanka leads on the sea.
A normal day costs about $60 in Georgia and $70 in Sri Lanka.
Side by side
- 🇬🇪 Georgia🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- May, Jun, Sep, OctBest monthsJan, Feb, Mar, Dec
- $60A normal day$70
- 5h 30m to TbilisiNonstop from London11h to Colombo
- Not the drawBeaches and seaExceptional
- Very goodCities and cultureNot the draw
- ExceptionalFoodExceptional
- ExceptionalNature and hikingExceptional
- ExceptionalValue for moneyExceptional
- GoodEasy to get aroundGood
- Shared minibuses and cheap drivers, the roads are the slow partGetting aroundA car with driver is the norm, and the hill country train is worth a slow day
- The mountain roads from November to April, when the passes closeWhen to avoidThe southwest in May and June, and the east from October to December
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 Sri Lanka if
you want beaches, tea mountains, safari and ruins inside one small island, on a very small budget.
Full Georgia guide →Full Sri Lanka guide →
And what the world thinks
Dead even. The next vote breaks the tie.
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