🇪🇬 Egypt or 🇮🇸 Iceland
And what the world thinks
Dead even. The next vote breaks the tie.
Which one, honestly
Egypt leads on value for money, the sea and cities. Iceland leads on nature and getting around.
A normal day costs about $75 in Egypt and $190 in Iceland.
Side by side
- 🇪🇬 Egypt🇮🇸 Iceland
- Oct to MarBest monthsJun to Sep
- $75A normal day$190
- 11h 30m to CairoNonstop from New York5h 40m to Reykjavik
- Very goodBeaches and seaNot the draw
- Very goodCities and cultureGood
- GoodFoodGood
- GoodNature and hikingExceptional
- ExceptionalValue for moneyNot the draw
- GoodEasy to get aroundVery good
- Sleeper trains along the Nile and cheap domestic flightsGetting aroundA hire car on the ring road, and a four wheel drive for the interior
- Upper Egypt from June to August, when Luxor and Aswan are unbearableWhen to avoidNothing seasonally, but the highland roads are shut from roughly October to June
Pick by what you want
🇪🇬 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.
🇮🇸 Choose Iceland if
you want landscape above everything else, and you have accepted in advance that it costs more than anywhere else here.
Full Egypt guide →Full Iceland guide →
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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.