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Travel Blogs from Sharm el sheikh, Egypt
Red Sea
This is a top pick! We caught the bus from Cairo to Sham El Sheikh, which passed over the Suez Canal before heading south and then into the foothills of the Sinai Mountains before reaching our destination. Sham was a lot bigger than I had expected and had sort of foreseen to ...
The Sinai Peninsula
This is a top pick! ... can say I've been in the Red Sea. To my left is Saudi Arabia. To my right is Egypt. At the time I visited, Sharm el Sheikh was just beginning to be developed. Today it's a major resort. The Sinai Peninsula was formerly Egyptian ...
Sinai loafing and last thoughts on Egypt
This is a top pick! ... a few nights in the town of Sharm-el-Sheik and to break up the long bus ride back to Cairo. The Israelis originally developed Sharm-el-Sheik as a resort after seizing the Sinai during the Six Day War in 1967. The Camp David Accords in 1978, led by ...
Sharm el Sheikh - plastic fantastic
This is a top pick! ... you're willing to pay $US5 a day just to sit on a piece on moulded plastic (which I'm not). The old town of Sharm El Sheikh (originally developed by the Israelis after the 1967 war) has been passed over as it is on an oddly shaped harbour surrounded by ...
Egypt's underwater gardens
This is a top pick! These photos are taken at two shallow dive sites at the eastern end of Naama Bay called 'Near Gardens' and 'Middle Gardens'. There is also a 'Far Gardens' which is apparently more impressive in terms of coral formations, however it is a long swim due to ...
Sharm el Sheikh - Goodbye Egypt.
This is a top pick! ... were heading off either onto their next travels or home. We took a taxi for the one and a half hour trip to Sharm El-Sheikh, the closest airport. Sharm El-Sheikh is a seaside Red Sea resort town but is also notorious for a terrorism ...
Sharm el sheikh
Apres etre passe sous le canal de Suez par un tunel nous longeons la cote vers Sharm. A notre gauche, de petites montagnes de pierre et a notre droite, du sable rocailleux et des ressorts pour touristes. Ce desert ne colle pas a limage depinal que nous en ...
Lazy days by the pool
Lazy day by the hotel pool So exhausted from Cairo that we woke up at 9:30am, just in time for breakfast. After breakfast (a selection from the buffet - but I just had the croissant, tomato, orange cordial "juice" and coffee) we headed ...
Sharm El Sheikh
... above my seat started leaking--or should I say, pouring! We had to MacGyver the air-vent with everything we had. I was very sleepy after the trip, but it was well worth it. I hope I can get back to Sharm soon. It is a great town with nice ...
The Red Sea
So this has to be really short, unforunately because we are already WAY over our time limit at the internet cafe in Sharm El-Sheikh. Fortunately we know the owner, so hopefully he will cut us some slack. In any case, we decided to spend last ...
Sharm el-Sheikh, day 1
... , roasted eggplant and UB had quail and I had lentil soup. We walked around some more and saw the nightlife of Sharm el-Sheikh - lots of drunk people, unlike most other places in Egypt, since public drunkenness is illegal. We went to bed ...
Day 52 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
... is the Egyptian Easter week, there were no crowds on the beach or walkway. Again, very few people are coming to Egypt. There are beautiful flowering trees and the area is well-planted with many flowers. We walked along and then we decided I ...
Special need camels and the Sinai Mountains.
... security with machine guns, bumpy roads with nothing but mountains and sand we arrive. Our “camp site” about 30 minutes outside Sharm El Sheik in the Sinai mountains (Asia, Cairo & Luxor etc in Africa: fun fact) greeted by our next ...
Luxor....and Sharm El Sheik
... exquisite mortuary temple at the foot of a limestone mountain...then we had a 3 1/2 hr ride back to the ship! Today we visited Sharm El Sheik at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula which divides the red sea into 2 gulfs..aqaba and suez. The pharaohs ...
Viva Las... Sharm El-Sheikh??
We had to get up early today (5am) to catch our flight to Sharm El Sheikh. It was so foggy by our hotel it was almost impossible for the driver to see the road and everyone was driving with their hazard lights on. We got to our hotel, the ...
Sharm El-Sheikh
... lives and realising again that we are a pair of sooky sook faced that need to harden up, we are our first Arabian Night. Sharm el Sheikh is a resort town on the edge of absolute sandy nothingness and right on the vast, still Red Sea. By night it looks ...
Fun & Relaxing Teambf Style
... a dull blah blah but at least we decided on the one trip outside the resort that we would take. The great thing about Sharm el Sheikh Next, on to the gym for our first intense exercise in... err... too long. Simple exercise room but plenty to break ...
The Mohammed Tribesmans of Savita Resort & Spa.
Day two in Sharm and spookily enough we’re already starting to feel comfortable with this strange resort bubble world. Gary has amassed quite the brigade of (male) admirers in the hotel staff, all of which are drawn to him as he’s the only guy ...
Food poisoning in Egypt.
Well, Thursday the 3rd of May 2012 was a complete right off after a case of food poisoning from dinner the previous night and we will never speak of this day again. GF RB Note: I always knew it was a good idea to avoid fish. GF Note: Thanks for ...
Red Sea Resort, Sacred Mountain & Streets of Cairo
... our ride to the airport. I field many questions about why we cannot go with them. Our flight from Luxor to Sharm el-Sheikh is uneventful enough. I do notice there are very few women on the flight or working in the airport. ...
All inclusive with great snorkelling
What a relaxing holiday during our holiday! Great to spend time with friends and not to have to worry about lifting a finger to cook, clean or even fetch a drink! Our holiday included our daily water-polo game which soon became an exhibition of ...
The Charm of 'Sharm!'
... his boot, and were on our way to Dahab. The journey into Dahab is relatively straight forward, there's only one road from Sharm El Sheikh. It's very hot, and dry...the rocky mountain terrain hugging the road is somewhat picturesque. It's only an hour into ...
Walk like an Egyptian
... minutes of the flight was really rough turbulence, it was so bad I almost threw up. Finally we had a smooth landing into Sharm El Sheikh. From the airport tarmac we were all hearded onto stifling HOT buses to take a 10 second trip to the airport. ...
A ghost bar, a cold bar and an expensive bar
... have it a taxi stopped and asked us if we needed a ride (Ok luck was not involved, this happens every ten feet when walking in Sharm). We asked our driver if he knew Harry's Pub and how much to get there, he said sure he knew it and only 20 ...
Arrived in Egypt
... details for the mddle east, we jetted off from gatwick airport at 9 am on Saturday -thanks once again to Stephen - and landed in Sharm el Shiek at around 7pm local time. Easyjet was once again late and we had landed an hour after we were suppose to but ...