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Holiday in Hurghada - So much to Explore and Enjoy

By Casper da silva

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Hurghada is a small Egyptian city located along the Red Sea coastline that signifies the world's warmest seas along with a moderate climatic condition. Until 1970 this area was an ambiguous fishing destination, but today this destination is counted as one of the major tourist locations in Egypt. It has grown to become the most visited and preferred tourist destination and almost unrecognisable from its past life. Providing an excess to more than 100 different hotels featured with modern amenities, this destination ensures to offer each vacationer a pleasant holiday experience and easy access to nearby numerous attractions.

Hurghada is one of the few travel paradises in Egypt that offers superb diving opportunities. In fact, enjoying scuba diving activity in Hurghada is so appealing that every holiday season number of vacationers come to marvel at the underwater reefs and awesome marine life. Besides this, scuba diving activity also provides you with an opportunity to unleash your spirits as you dive in and discover the age-old wrecks that are deposited underneath especially in the northern part of the Sha'ab Abu Nuhas Reef. Apart from scuba diving, the beautiful beaches also offer ample of options to enjoy other activities such as kite surfing or sailing. The wind from the Red Sea constantly blows from early in the morning to the evening that makes it ideal to enjoy sailing.

Just in case, if you are less sporty kind of person, many hotels or resorts offer a large selection of less extreme, but rather relaxing kinds of water sports and outdoor activities. A snorkel trip to Gifton Island can be one of those and is highly recommendable option. Adding to this, a trip by paddleboat, catamaran, canoe, glass bottom boats or submarines might also be other alternatives to enrich your holiday experience. Moreover, some resorts even offer opportunity to enjoy activity like parasailing.

Among the other major tourist attractions in Hurghada you may be surprised to find a number of historical landmarks. The most remarkable among them are the monasteries of both St. Anthony and St. Paul, though the Roman site of Mons Claudianus is predominantly impressive and was in use for more than 200 years. This vast Roman site is named after Mons Claudianus, who was once a provider of grey granite for the Roman Empire. In addition, Mons Porphyrites is another most significant Roman quarry complex located in the heart of the Eastern desert. This major landmark also provides enough options to explore the remnants of fortress ruins, temples, dwellings, shrines, broken pillars and cracked stone baths.

Apart from all this, spending holiday in Hurghada is incomplete unless you visit some of the most well known museums and art galleries. Marine Biology Museum is just one of those famous museums that can offer you a walkthrough experience in the underwater world. It provides you with opportunity to discover a good set of coral reefs and different variety of Red Sea species, including sharks and turtles. However, if you are a history buffer in that case the National Museum can be worth tourist spot to visit. This 22,000-square-meter building features four exhibition halls, artists' studios and performance spaces. As a visitor you may spend your day viewing the whole range of antiques that describes the story of great Egyptian history starting from Pharaonic through Islamic eras.

Nevertheless, if you are still not exhausted after a very active day, you can go for a typically Egyptian Schai (tea) and Schicha (water pipe) in one of the many cafes. If you are looking forward to taste some of the most famous local cuisines of Hurghada, Ad-Dahar area can be the best choice. Many of the cheapest restaurants in Hurghada are concentrated around the Ad-Dahar area, including a number of more Western-style dining options, such as the Pizza Tarboush along Sharia Abdel Aziz Mustafa and the cafe Cheers on the Corniche.

As a particularly popular Egyptian tourist destination, Hurghada is also considered as home to a large selection of shops and shopping malls. The local bazaars are surely going to delight you with its local goods like leather, gold, carpets and clothes. Besides this, located within the walking distance to nearby hotels, you may even find various gift shops where you can purchase different items like perfumes, painted papyrus, pots, rugs, postcards, statues and more.

With all this and many other tourist spots to explore and enjoy, this season spend your holiday in Hurghada. Your holiday in Hurghada can surely be one of the best holiday experiences of your life.

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