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Hurghada
Originally a small fishing village, over the past twenty years or so Hurghada has grown to be an international tourist resort focussed on scuba-diving. Hurghada has developed north and south of the original village, taking up a huge stretch of the coastline with many 5* hotels dotted along the coastline.
Like Sharm, today there are many bars, clubs and restaurants catering for those who want to party into the early hours. Papa’s and Chill are some of the more popular nightspots.
Hurghada’s relative proximity to Luxor also means that visitors to the resort can quite easily arrange day trips by road to Luxor to visit the Valley of the Kings, the temple of Hatshepsut and the temples of Luxor and Karnak.
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Marsa Alam |
Some 4 hours drive or 275 km south of Hurghada, lies the resort of Marsa Alam. Until quite recently, Marsa Alam was still only a small village, with the main activity being fishing. However, scuba divers, forever on the search for something ‘new’ had started to venture further southwards from Hurghada to dive the virgin sites of the south. Then, in 2001 an International Airport was opened here and Marsa Alam finally became an official resort in its own right.
As elsewhere in the Red Sea, the opportunities for outstanding scuba diving are undisputed. Marsa Alam’s coastline is fringed with spectacular coral reefs which remain largely intact because of their remoteness from the established tourist resorts. The reefs here support a wealth of marine life and the chance to see some of the bigger pelagic species including a variety of shark species is greater here than at the more northerly dive sites.
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