| Red Sea · البحر الأحمر | |
 Abu Tig Marina, area of a marina of El Gouna |
The coast of the Red sea (Arabic:البحر الأحمر, al-Baḥr al-Aḥmar, „Red Sea“) Is an important holiday region in the east Egypt. It extends from the southern tip of the peninsula Sinai to the Egyptian-Sudanese border over a length of 800 kilometers and is part of the Red Sea Riviera. The Red Sea beckons for swimming and other water sports activities. The sea is one of the best diving spots in the world. The hinterland is covered by the Arabian desert educated.
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The holiday resorts on the Red Sea coast are among the most popular holiday areas in the world. They combine a year-round mild to hot climate, a warm sea (20 to 30 ° C water temperature), hundreds of kilometers of coastline with many sandy beaches and a delightful underwater world.
While divers were mainly found here in the 1980s, since 1990 there have been especially divers Hurghada and Sharm esch-Sheikh expanded to holiday resorts. Previously there were mostly only small villages at the holiday resorts, some resorts like El Gouna were artificially created in previously uninhabited places on the coast.
In addition to swimming, numerous water sports activities such as diving, surfing and kite surfing are possible.
places
| Places on the Red Sea coast | |
The localities are sorted according to their location from north to south:
- 1 Ras Gharib (also Ras Ghareb) - industrial city with oil production
- 2 Gamsha Bay (Arabic:جمشة باي) - Planned resort
- 3 El Gouna - artificial holiday development
- 5 Sahl hashish - artificial holiday development
- 6 Serrenia (Arabic:سيرينيا) - Planned luxury resort in the south of Sahl Haschisch Bay
- 7 Makadi Bay - artificial holiday development
- 8 Sharm en Naqa (also Sharm / Sharm el-Naga) - artificial holiday settlement
- 9 Soma Bay - artificial holiday development
- 10 Abu Soma - artificial holiday development
- 11 Safaga - Port city and holiday complex
12 el-Quseir - Port city and holiday complex
- 13 Coraya Bay - artificial holiday development
- 14 Port Ghalib - artificial holiday development and marina
- 15 Shoni Bay - Recreation area with two departments so far, see below Marsa Alam
- 16 Marsa Alam - Village and artificial holiday development
- 17 Hamata - Village and artificial holiday development
- 18 Berenike - Port location
- 19 Shalātīn - Southernmost place on the coast. He has so far been spared the blessings of tourism.
Further destinations in the hinterland of the coast are in the articles Arabian desert and Red Sea Governorate listed.
getting there
By plane
The resorts can be via the airports 1 Hurghada International
(IATA: HRG) and 2 Marsa Alam International(IATA: RMF) can be achieved. The journey is usually made by charter flight. In addition, Egypt Air offers scheduled flights, for example Cairo at. In summer 2019, the 3 Berenice International Airport to be opened.
For the onward journey you have to rely on taxis or vehicles from the travel companies.
By bus
Part of the places, especially Hurghada, is also accessible by public transport for example from Cairo or Luxor reachable from.
mobility
Taxis, and less often minibuses, run in the tourist resorts.
Tourist Attractions
There are monastery complexes in the northern hinterland of the Red Sea like that Paul Monastery and the Anthony Monastery. One of the must-see sites on the Red Sea coast is the port of Safaga and the old town of el-Quseir.
Further sights in the hinterland of the coast can be found in the article Arabian desert. These include the ancient quarries Mons Porphyrites, Mons Claudianus, Mons Smaragdus, the mining village Umm el-Ḥuweiṭāt, a ghost city, as well as the Wādī-el-Gimāl-Ḥamāṭa National Park and the ʿElba sanctuary.
activities
The main activities are linked to the sea. These include diving, windsurfing, kite surfing, water skiing, air chair (wide water ski with seat), glass boat rides, submarines and banana boats. On land, quad excursions, safaris and camel rides are offered. The more upscale sports include horse riding, golf, tennis, and squash.
Significant Diving areas are the 1 Strait of Gūbāl at the south end of the Gulf of Suez, the 2 Brothers Islands, the 3 Elphinstone Reef, the 4 Daedalus Reef, 5 Fury Shoal and the 6 St. John's Reefs.
kitchen
Most of the resorts consist only of hotel complexes, the restaurants of which are set up to suit the tastes of their guests. In the larger resorts such as Hurghada and Sharm esch-Sheikh there are also restaurants outside of these complexes.
nightlife
The nightlife is mostly limited to the offers of the hotels and the facilities of the artificial holiday villages.
accommodation
Most hotels and holiday complexes only work with tour operators and are not prepared for walk-in customers.
security
Because of their remoteness, the holiday resorts are among the safest regions in Egypt. The security forces also contribute to this. So far, there have only been attacks in Sharm esch-Sheikh in 2005.
The Red Sea is not a separate swimming pool, but the habitat of countless animal species. Since December 2010 there has been a new problem, that of shark attacks.
climate
The climate is warm and humid, which results from the high temperatures of the adjacent desert areas and the high evaporation rate of the Red Sea.
| Hurghada | Jan | Feb | March | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean highest air temperature in ° C | 22 | 23 | 25 | 29 | 33 | 35 | 36 | 36 | 34 | 31 | 27 | 23 | O | 29.5 |
| Average air temperature in ° C | 16 | 17 | 19 | 23 | 26 | 29 | 30 | 30 | 28 | 25 | 21 | 17 | O | 23.4 |
| Mean lowest air temperature in ° C | 11 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 22 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 24 | 21 | 17 | 12 | O | 18.9 |
| Precipitation in mm | 0.4 | 0.02 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 0.9 | Σ | 5.26 |
| Rainy days in the month | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | Σ | 2 |
WMO: Weather Information for Hurghada, World Weather Information Service, accessed June 10, 2013. | ||||||||||||||
In winter there are often strong north-easterly winds, so that it is hardly possible to swim.
See also
- Red Sea - Red Sea coast in Sudan.
literature
- : Red Sea pilot: Aden to Cyprus. Huntingdon: Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson, 2002 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-0-85288-554-3 . Anchorages on the Red Sea.
- : Diver’s Atlas Southern Red Sea: Dive site descriptions for liveaboards and day trips. Vienna: Seainsight, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9503160-0-1 .
