El Gouna is an adorable resort that does not look like the rest in Egypt. Any vacationer will find yourself entertainment to taste: At your service - secluded beaches and comfortable hotels, Safari in the sands of the desert and unique underwater world, organized entertainment for all family members and reckless nightlife ... those who love diving will find here underwater wanders - marine Animals and sunken vessels.
El Guna - Artificial Resort, In the same time, only the sands of the desert stretched here. At the beginning of the nineties, the director of one of Egyptian construction firms came to mind the idea of taking a wonderful piece of Venice on the seaside. To this end, he bought a significant desert territory in twenty-two kilometers from Hurghada. Not so much time passed - and here, according to the Michael Graves project, the resort of El Gouna rose. Although the coastline has undergone significant changes, the underwater world was not injured, and today amazing coral reefs, sea fish and sunken ancient old vessels are sitting in many connoisseurs of exotic underwater beauties.
The city takes the territory more than 36 million sq.m. On the channels, tourists with boatmen will quickly hit the sandy beach, which stretched ten kilometers. Nowadays, about ten hotels erected - however, the construction has not yet completed ...
The main part of vacationers here is tourists from Germany and Holland.
El Guna, though young as a city, however, this is a real resort. And his heart is EL Kafr Island . On this island there are restaurants, cafes and shops, art salons and museums, cinemas and dance floors. It has its own radio, school, magazine and exhibition and sale of works of the local painting masters. Even there is own TV channel - El Gouuna TV. The city also has its own brewery and production of mineral water and wine.
All hotels in El Gun have one common tourist entertainment infrastructure. Here you can play on tennis courts, and in golf - on the recently open field for eighteen holes. Those who want to explore coastal depths can be trained in dives with scuba.
As for the prices of excursions, they will cost more on five to twenty dollars than the same trips from Hurghada. List of excursions will be the same. Located here, tourist offices will offer you a standard excursion package: Luxor, Cairo, Safari on jeeps in the desert e, Trip to the coral islands, as well as an excursion on a submarine During which you can watch the marine beauty through huge portholes, the depth of the device is up to twenty-five meters. On one beach of the resort, Mangrove burned to this day. They monitor their condition and are trying to leave them as they were before the activities of a person in these places. Efforts that are applied to the preservation of local natural wealth led to the fact that El Guna is considered the most friendly to nature resort in the state.
Those who love health recreation can take advantage of various rejuvenating programs, solariums, saunas, jacuzzi and pools. There are entertainment in El Gun and for children: water parks, rides and water slides. For a cheerful pastime, animators work here, a variety of entertainment views are offered.
El Gouna loved photographers and artists from all over the world. To accommodate them, a separate complex is erected, where they live and work. It is also very loved by this resort and wealthy citizens of Egypt - their chic villas look harmoniously in a single city architectural ensemble.
Almost all the beaches at this resort have nested five hundred and six hundred meters - it is excellent for swimming together with children, however, adults may not come up. Each island of the resort has its own one hotel and its own beach with coral reefs. All beaches in El Goune are sandy, the entrance to the water is flat. On the beaches there are umbrellas and sun beds. The most famous beaches are Zeytouuna Beach, which is located on a separate island, and Mangroovy Beach - with the kaitsorfing base located there. A peculiar "chip" of the resort is the possibility of exchanging dinner in his hotel for dinner to another.
When you spent the whole day on the beach, acceleration and reckoning, you can then go to the central part of the city - here is Entertainment and wellness center Club House . It is located a sauna, a swimming pool, a gym and a fitness center, as well as - trading Arcade Khayamia, where you can stockday souvenirs. Closer to the evening can go to the Italian restaurant or artistic cafe. Or, if you wish with might and "to tear up" - in the "CIN-CIN" bar or a "Arena" disco.
With the onset of the darkness of El Gun is absolutely converted. Lights of dance floors, entertainment establishments and nightclubs light up everywhere. Comfortable small restaurants offer to try traditional dishes and wines of local production. And tea rooms and cafes will offer you traditional tea or natural coffee together with wonderful sweets.
A trip to El Guan will be an excellent chance to take a look at the wonders of Egypt, to amaze all the beauty of this old state, feel antiquity and uniqueness of these places.
"Desert Breathing"
The "Desert Breath" is an architectural structure located near the resort of El Guna.
This building is located on the square more than one hundred thousand square meters, it consists of two spirals that come from one center. One of them includes eighty-nine cones, their height and diameter are increasing with the removal from the center. The second consists of the same number of recesses in the form of cones, their dimensions are also increased by removal from the center.
In the center of the construction - W-shaped notch. If it is filled with water, the protrusion forms a small cone island along the horizon line.
Built this complex in 1997. According to the writer of the authors, the end of the work on the construction of the construction is the beginning of the next stage - erosion, which in the end it will destroy it. And this will be a visual illustration of the course of time.