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El Gouna Slideshow
Travel Blogs from El Gouna, Egypt
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The 'Venice' of Egypt
... day after. Thanks for all the comments and messages. Glad to hear from you all and it's great you guys are enjoying the blog. Egypt seems to be getting better and better and we are really looking forward to Luxor and Aswan, as we've heard good things from ...
Hurgada, the Red Sea, and the Aladdin Resort
Leaving Cairo, we went on vacation to Hurgada (this vacation within a vacation theme ran throughout the whole trip). On the way we stopped and saw the Coptic monastery of St. Paul, from the 4th century AD. Many pious Copts fast more than Muslims, ...
One day off and one day diving again
... und wasserdichtem Gehäuse bis 30m für wenig Geld gekauft. Mal sehen, was dabei raus kommt. Nach dem Abendessen habe ich El Gouna Downtown auf eigene Faust erkundet und dort ein paar Leute aus der Tauchbasis an ner Bar getroffen. Nachdem wir ein ...
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
... und ich war erschrocken, wieviel anstrengender Schnorcheln gegenüber Tauchen ist. Der zweite Tauchgang war ein toller Drift am Riff von El Gilwa entlang. Auch da gab es wieder viel zu sehen und das Riff und seine Bewohner zogen einfach an einem vorbei, ...
Endlich wieder mal tauchen
... Grad, nachts ca. 28). Das Hotel ist in Ordnung, kleines Zimmer aber sehr sauber, Restaurant des Nachbarhotels wird mitbenutzt. El Gouna ist eine kuenstliche Urlaubsstadt, die vor wenigen Jahren erst hier angelegt wurde. Deshalb ist alles noch recht neu ...
SAS Halloween Party
Well, considering the entire shipboard community will be in Egypt by the time Halloween rolls around (happy birthday Mike!), we had our Halloween party a little early on the 28th. At first there wasn't going to be any alcohol whatsoever, but I think that ...
Egypten
Hej, våran resa till Egypten var bra, hade varit perfekt om jag inte haft feber 5 av 8 ...
Ausfall...
Tja, da hat's mich wie befürchtet doch erwischt. Hab mir ne schöne Erkältung eingefangen, mit ordentlich Schädelweh und Rotz und verschleimten Nebenhölen - tauchen fällt aus. Da hat mich der mit Bonbons und Medikamenten wegkurierte Anflug der ...
Pool fun
The villa we stayed in had a pool. We play in it every day. I snorkeled the whole length of the pool. I can toch the botem of the pool. Me and Kai do a Johney cracher in the pool. It's just like a bum drop but in ...
Egypt
Egypte, Une semaine à El Gouna, lagune artificielle au bord de la mer Rouge. Egypt, One week in El Gouna, an artificial lagoon, on the Red sea's ...
Across the Red Sea Mountains to El Gouna
We set off in the early afternoon from Luxor in another armed convoy of buses to Hurghada and El ...
Pretty fishes, well most of them
Wow and wow again, that diving lark was spectacular. I saw all sorts of tropical fish including scorpian and lion, rays and moray eels, BIG moray eels. Plus I got to swim with Nemo, a couple of clown fish came up and said 'hi' it was truly ...
Blondes on tour (and one brunette)
Well Hurgarda has definatley grown on me. So much that I am seriously considering getting a dive job out here. Suzanne and Jen are here and its been fun being together. We went on a quad bike safari last night which was an adventure. No lessons in ...
Aankomst Hurgada
De reisgids zou het omschrijven als een idillisch gelegen badplaats aan de kust van de rode zee. Ik vind het meer een grote bouwplaats waar lukraak resorts, restaurants en discotheken worden neergezet. En het strand is verder ook niet echt bijzonder, al ...
How did they manage the pyramids??
... filled up with Russians. Haven't met another English person yet but maybe thats not such a great tragedy. Living and working in Egypt is a whole new experience on every level. Everything here works on Egyptian time which appears to be a time zone of ...
At the Red Sea, in a black mood
... later, I just wanted to sit in the shower and mope. I had just arrived at a pre-manufactured slice of Western heaven, El Gouna's Movenpick resort. It's on the Red Sea, but that's about as original as it gets. Between the rhumba music in the Piazza, ...
Snorkelling in the Red Sea
Today I snorkled in the Red sea. We saw all sourts of fish. We saw: a puffre fish, angle fish, clown fish, sea anemone, coral, dolphins, sea snake, sea urchins, huge clam's, big starfish, tiny little fish and even box jellyfish!!! I ...
Egyptland
... was the country's engine room, noisy, industrious and always moving. The Nile has been about Egypts history, the background and it's heartland. El Gouna is it's surface veneer, fresh, clean and shiny, nothing like we have seen so far. If I were to ...
Meryl's Birthday
Meryl's Birthday and we spent the day on the dive clubs boat going out to Dolphin Point to do snorkelling. It was pretty good to see the fish again like yesterday plus we got to see a few dolphins as well. Got back to the hotel around 5pm and guess ...
Apr 22, 2010
a weekend at the Red Sea!
... student orientation at American University in Cairo. Wow... I was a little blown away by the excess and pre-fab nature of El Gouna, the resort town where we stayed (literally, there was nothing else in the town except lavish resorts... no native ...
Pool diving like a duck
Diving in the pool this morning was fantastic. Although I was a little paniky at first I managed to do the basic skills like clearing water from the visor and taking the regulator out under water without too much of a problem. Was well impressed by ...
5 star Relaxation
... the Sheraton and the Nile across from it and the next are of the drive out of Luxor and then there are ones are of El Gouna Resort. i also included a few of Hurghada, the larger town and some of the new buildings being built there for rich ...
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