🇮🇸 Iceland or 🇬🇪 Georgia
Which one, honestly
Iceland leads on getting around. Georgia leads on value for money, food and cities.
A normal day costs about $190 in Iceland and $60 in Georgia.
Side by side
- 🇮🇸 Iceland🇬🇪 Georgia
- Jun, Jul, Aug, SepBest monthsMay, Jun, Sep, Oct
- $190A normal day$60
- 3h 20m to ReykjavikNonstop from London5h 30m to Tbilisi
- Not the drawBeaches and seaNot the draw
- GoodCities and cultureVery good
- GoodFoodExceptional
- ExceptionalNature and hikingExceptional
- Not the drawValue for moneyExceptional
- Very goodEasy to get aroundGood
- A hire car on the ring road, and a four wheel drive for the interiorGetting aroundShared minibuses and cheap drivers, the roads are the slow part
- Nothing seasonally, but the highland roads are shut from roughly October to JuneWhen to avoidThe mountain roads from November to April, when the passes close
Pick by what you want
🇮🇸 Choose Iceland if
you want landscape above everything else, and you have accepted in advance that it costs more than anywhere else here.
🇬🇪 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.
Full Iceland guide →Full Georgia 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.