🇱🇰 Sri Lanka or 🇪🇬 Egypt
Which one, honestly
Sri Lanka leads on food, nature and the sea. Egypt leads on cities.
A normal day costs about $70 in Sri Lanka and $75 in Egypt.
Side by side
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka🇪🇬 Egypt
- Jan, Feb, Mar, DecBest monthsJan, Feb, Mar, Oct, Nov, Dec
- $70A normal day$75
- 11h to ColomboNonstop from London5h 15m to Cairo
- ExceptionalBeaches and seaVery good
- Not the drawCities and cultureVery good
- ExceptionalFoodGood
- ExceptionalNature and hikingGood
- ExceptionalValue for moneyExceptional
- GoodEasy to get aroundGood
- A car with driver is the norm, and the hill country train is worth a slow dayGetting aroundSleeper trains along the Nile and cheap domestic flights
- The southwest in May and June, and the east from October to DecemberWhen to avoidUpper Egypt from June to August, when Luxor and Aswan are unbearable
Pick by what you want
🇱🇰 Choose Sri Lanka if
you want beaches, tea mountains, safari and ruins inside one small island, on a very small budget.
🇪🇬 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 Sri Lanka 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.