About Red Sea

Hurghada

Hurghada was founded in the early 1900s. Just a few years ago, Hurghada was a small fishing village, but today it appears the city as the most attractive tourist destination on the Red Sea.
Holiday paradise stretching over the 25 km long white shoreline, is an international center for sports and recreational divers. The small fishing village Hurghada is grown to become a
major destination for sun worshipers and winter tourists.

Hurghada is primarily a seaside resort and the nightlife and other entertainment options are very limited. However, in the bazaars, you will find both carpets and gold jewelry and there are many cozy cafes where you can enjoy a traditional Sisha (Hoka bars) and Shei (water pipe and tea). Although Hurghada has become a major tourist destination, it still retains much of its local. There are also plenty of diving clubs with skilled instructors if you want to obtain a diving certificate.

If you want a diversion, there are many other activities; camel or jeep safari to the Bedouins in the desert, bike riding quad runner or motorcycle tours, u-boat to the seabed, sailing, windsurfing, boat excursions, paddle boats, rock climbing and excursions to a nearby monastery. In Hurghada you can dive, snorkel, sail, fish, water-ski and go desert safaris. It is very popular to go for walking safari, where you drive a motorcade, take a glass boat – excursion etc. The crystal clear warm waters are ideal for many unique colorful fish and corals.

Seaside holiday has an exciting range of all facilities, including cafes, restaurants, shops, golf courses and famous international hotel chains, etc.
Do not miss the museum and aquarium with their fascinating collection of Red Sea fauna and flora. Today Hurghada is known as a party town, particularly among Europeans.

Sharm el Sheik

A place where your heart will be lost. You may have been in many wonderful places, but Sharm has a unique advantages as a recreational area. The Red Sea with its moderate warm year around temperature adds to Sharm unique location the advantage of being suitable as a holiday resort area 365 days of the year.

The advantage of being approximately one hour-flight to Cairo and less than half an hour to Luxor makes Sharm one very unique Sea side destination.

On the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula lies the seaside resort of Sharm el Sheik between the Aqaba Gulf and Suez Bay. The old fishing village that became world famous because of the incredibly beautiful coral reefs. There are opportunities for cave diving and the many wrecks can be visited on the ocean floor, a huge fall just below the rock face below the water surface .

Ras Mohammed

In 1983, Ras Mohammed declared the first national park in Egypt. In this underwater paradise of live coral that is between 115,000 0g 200,000 years old. It has an unusually rich and varied aquatic life and beautiful corals, sharks, turtles, dolphins, morays and thousands of different colorful fish with different looks. You will never forget diving or snorkeling in this nature reserve. There is also the northernmost mangrove forest.

Beduins

Since ancient Egypt Sinai – Peninsula was populated by nomads. The word Bedouin tribes from the Arabic ” badayah ” meaning desert. Today Bedouins in Sinai is divided into different tribes that have different rules and traditions. Each tribe is ruled by a sheikh. Some Bedouins still live in tents, but most have acquired normal residence. In addition to the camel, goat and sheep farming has begun Bedouins tourism activities, desert safari, camel riding and Bedouin dinner.

Moses Mountain (Mount Sinai)

A perfect excursion is Moses Mountain where it is said that Moses received the tablets with the 10 commandments of God. It is very popular to climb the 2,285 meter high mountain on steep mountain trails at night to see the sunrise from the top of the mountain. On top of the mountain we find the Trinity Chapel.

In the valley below is the Greek Orthodox St. Catherine Monastery which has 1,600 years of history and is the world’s oldest functioning monastery, famous for its historical icons and fonts. In here we also find “The burning bush ” from the Bible story, and a room where the dead monks’ bones are kept at school for the general public.