Hurghada

Hurghada is a city in Egypt's Red Sea Governorate. This is a major tourist center and second largest city (after Suez) in Egypt is located in the Red Sea coast.

Hurghada is famous for its beautiful beaches with white sand. Hurghada also offers tourist attractions are well-supported facilities. Hurghada there are many resorts, hotels and inns. Hurghada Beach Coral reefs are considered the most beautiful in the world. Hurghada is also an international center of water sports like windsurfing, sailing, diving and others.

The city was founded in the early 20th century, and since the 1980s has been continually enlarged by Egyptian and foreign investors to become the leading beach resort on the Red Sea. Holiday villages and hotels provide facilities for water sports sailboarders, yachtsmen, scuba divers and snorkelers.

Hurghada stretches about 36 kilometers (22 miles) along the coast, and did not reach far into the surrounding desert. The resort is a destination for tourists from Cairo, Egypt, Delta and Egypt, as well as package holiday tourists from Europe, especially the Serbs, Italians, Russians, Poles, Czechs and Germans. Until a few years ago it was a small fishing village.

 

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Sharm el-Sheikh

Sharm el-Sheikh is a city at the southern end of Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, along the coast between the Red Sea and Mount Sinai.

Sharm el-Sheikh is known as a tourist city, especially for water activities such as snorkelling or diving. Various hotels and restaurants of the famous overseas located here. According to the BBC, Sharm el-Sheikh is a popular area among tourists in Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Europe.

Strategic position overlooking the Gulf of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba, Sharm el-Sheikh as tourist paradise of water such as snorkeling, scuba diving and others. In Sharm el-Sheikh we can see Mount Sinai and Naama Bay. Golf course with full facilities are also available there.

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Karnak

Karnak / Karnak Temple Complex is the ruins of temples, columns and other buildings, especially the Great Temple of Amen and the edifice built by Pharaoh Ramses II (ca. 1391-1351 BC), located near Luxor, about 500 miles south of Cairo , Egypt.

In the year 323 AD, Constantine the Great recognized Christianity in 356 and ordered closure of all pagan temples. Karnak at that time almost completely abandoned, and Christian churches were founded near the ruins.

The area around the ancient Egyptian Karnak is Ipet-isut ("Most Chosen Place") and the main place of worship of the eighteenth dynasty Theban Triad with the god Amun as its head. This is part of the monumental city of Thebes. Karnak complex takes its name from nearby, and partly surrounded by, the modern village of el-Karnak, about 2.5 km north of Luxor.

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