Sunny Egypt, which is famous for its resorts, presents for its tourists a beautiful, relatively young city of Hurghada. Another thirty-five years of Hurghada was an ordinary village where the local Bedouins lived, but the development of tourism around the world was overtaking and the Egyptians. They began to actively rebuild Hurghada, turning it into a tourist city. Today in Hurghada more than three hundred hotel complexes of various star, in which you can find holidays for every taste for a noisy company and for family pairs with children.
Hurghada is located 15-20 minutes from the airport, at the entrance to the city you can already get acquainted with the local attraction - the desert. Despite the fact that the desert seems endless, very soon tourists notice the signs of civilization - huge shopping centers, small shops, houses of local residents with narrow quarters. Everywhere in Hurghada flowers carcade - fragrant tea makes out of it.
In whatever the hotel has no tourists, there are always excursion bureaus, offering trips, both short and long-term excursions near hotels. To visit Hurghada and do not go on a tour - this can not be. First of all, it is worth paying attention to the mysterious and magnificent Luxor, brought by a thick layer of history. Here is the Karnak Temple,
Tomb Hatsepsut,
Famous colosas of Memnon.
. It is very near the excavations, the results of which the Egyptians are still hiding from Soglyadatayev.
All these attractions need to see once and will forever remain in the memory of tourists.
Another excursion you need to visit from Hurghada is the island of the Red Sea. Moreover, you can choose any island - they will all leave indelible impressions of their beauty. One of these islands is a banana island, which is the land of a private Egyptian entrepreneur. For a symbolic fee of the hosts joyfully take tourists, show them their own banana plantations, the cane thickets and at the very end the excursion sitting at the table, bruising from local fruits - bananas, guava, oranges and many other things.
Another island is a paradise, or dream island. And you really have something to dream about. The island is located in the open sea, where the yacht is accompanying flocks of dolphins. Sand on such an island is a large, similar to sugar, and water, transparent, like a tear. Part of the island has been redeemed by hotels, umbrellas and sun beds are installed on this land.
And of course, tourists can not refuse to walk through the old town, where the most important mosque of the city is built.
In it, visitors can easily enter and get acquainted with the inner decoration of the construction. At the exit from the mosque, as well, and throughout Hurghada, there are shopping points with fresh vegetables and fruits that are sold at reasonable prices. Egyptian souvenirs are also sold everywhere - araphak handkerchiefs, cat statuettes, images of pharaohs, magnets, plates and much more. Despite such prices, the Egyptians are always ready to give up yet, because they most like to bargain with tourists are their art.
Leaving from Hurghada, all tourists bring souvenirs. In addition to traditional souvenirs from Hurghada, it is necessary to bring aromamasla and perfume, because it is here that there is a brand name and oils of the well-known family of al-fayed, the son of the head of which was killed in a car accident along with Princess Diana. It is here that real therapeutic and cosmetics are produced, the diversity of which will surprise even the most demanding customers.
Holidays in Hurghada, on the Red Sea coast, is a great opportunity not only to be sought on a warm beach and buy in a gentle sea, but also familiarize yourself with the Egyptian history, architectural monuments, Arab mentality.