🇰🇭 Cambodia or 🇪🇬 Egypt
Which one, honestly
Cambodia leads on food and nature. Egypt leads on the sea and cities.
A normal day costs about $70 in Cambodia and $75 in Egypt.
Side by side
- 🇰🇭 Cambodia🇪🇬 Egypt
- Jan, Feb, Nov, DecBest monthsJan, Feb, Mar, Oct, Nov, Dec
- $70A normal day$75
- 1h 10m from BangkokClosest hub3h 55m from Dubai
- GoodBeaches and seaVery good
- GoodCities and cultureVery good
- Very goodFoodGood
- Very goodNature and hikingGood
- ExceptionalValue for moneyExceptional
- GoodEasy to get aroundGood
- Tuk tuks in town, buses and cheap flights between citiesGetting aroundSleeper trains along the Nile and cheap domestic flights
- March to May, when Angkor is punishing by nine in the morningWhen to avoidUpper Egypt from June to August, when Luxor and Aswan are unbearable
Pick by what you want
🇰🇭 Choose Cambodia if
you want the most impressive ruin in Asia, and a country that is still cheap and still quiet once you leave it.
🇪🇬 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 Cambodia 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.