🇵🇪 Peru or 🇪🇬 Egypt
Which one, honestly
Peru leads on food and nature. Egypt leads on the sea and value for money.
A normal day costs about $85 in Peru and $75 in Egypt.
Side by side
- 🇵🇪 Peru🇪🇬 Egypt
- May, Jun, Jul, Aug, SepBest monthsJan, Feb, Mar, Oct, Nov, Dec
- $85A normal day$75
- 7h 45m to LimaNonstop from New York11h 30m to Cairo
- Not the drawBeaches and seaVery good
- Very goodCities and cultureVery good
- ExceptionalFoodGood
- ExceptionalNature and hikingGood
- Very goodValue for moneyExceptional
- GoodEasy to get aroundGood
- Long distance buses are good and cheap, flights save whole daysGetting aroundSleeper trains along the Nile and cheap domestic flights
- February, when the rains peak and the Inca Trail closes for maintenanceWhen to avoidUpper Egypt from June to August, when Luxor and Aswan are unbearable
Pick by what you want
🇵🇪 Choose Peru if
you want the Andes, one of the best food scenes anywhere, and a ruin everyone knows, without paying European prices.
🇪🇬 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 Peru 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.