🇮🇹 Italy or 🇪🇬 Egypt
Which one, honestly
Italy leads on food, cities and nature. Egypt leads on value for money and the sea.
A normal day costs about $165 in Italy and $75 in Egypt.
Side by side
- 🇮🇹 Italy🇪🇬 Egypt
- Apr, May, Sep, OctBest monthsJan, Feb, Mar, Oct, Nov, Dec
- $165A normal day$75
- 2h 35m to RomeNonstop from London5h 15m to Cairo
- GoodBeaches and seaVery good
- ExceptionalCities and cultureVery good
- ExceptionalFoodGood
- Very goodNature and hikingGood
- GoodValue for moneyExceptional
- Very goodEasy to get aroundGood
- Fast trains, genuinely excellent, book in advanceGetting aroundSleeper trains along the Nile and cheap domestic flights
- The middle of August, when the cities empty and half the good places shutWhen to avoidUpper Egypt from June to August, when Luxor and Aswan are unbearable
Pick by what you want
🇮🇹 Choose Italy if
you want three cities in ten days, you care about food and museums, and you would rather take a train than a ferry.
🇪🇬 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 Italy 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.