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7 Reasons to Visit Sharm El Sheik

Diverse marine life and hundreds of Red Sea coral reef sites make Sharm El Sheikh a magnet for divers and eco-tourists. The tourist economy of this Sinai Peninsula city has grown quite rapidly over the last few decades, resulting in an upcrop of first-class resorts and posh nightlife. The waters of Ras Mohamed National Park are abundant with schools of fish and, oddly, toilets – thanks to the bathroom fixtures being transported by a cargo ship that sank during a 1981 storm.

Sharm el-Sheikh is a tourist city located at the confluence of the Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez on the Red Sea coast. It covers an area of 480 km2 and has a population of 35 thousand people. It is the largest city in South Sinai Governorate.

The city includes tourist resorts that has been visited by visitors from all over the world.

It is famous for being one of the international diving centers that attract amateurs and professionals of this sport. It also includes an international airport. In front of its coast are the islands of Tiran and Sanafir.

Among its most important areas are Ras Nasrani; Ras Umm Sid; Ras Jamila; Ras Kanisah; Sharm El Maya;Nakhlet al-Tabal; As well as  Ras Muhammad,  a protected area that is  located south of it, and the Nabq Protectorate between it and Dahab, and Naama Bay at the confluence of the continents of Asia and Africa.

It contains more than 200 hotels and resorts, in addition to restaurants, cafes, shopping malls, entertainment cities, nightclubs and casinos.

Sharm el-Sheikh was built in 1968 and it is known as the City of Peace. Since that date, the city has developed rapidly until it has become one of the most famous tourist cities in Sinai and the world, and it is considered one of the four most beautiful cities in the world according to the BBC classification for the year 2005.

The city's transformation also led to modern systems in architecture, entertainment, safety and hotel service to qualify it to win an organized award.

UNESCO selected it among the top five cities of peace in the world out of 400 global cities.

Here we review the most important tourist activities, sports and natural reserves in the city:

Diving tourism:Diving hobby is one of the important sports that has been spread recently in Egypt, where the number of practitioners of this sport underwater has reached (100 thousand athletes), due to the many sections that our country enjoys for practicing this sport, especially South Sinai governorate, which has unique characteristics that make it at the forefront of the areas that any practitioner wishes for this.

Diving sport and enjoying the treasures it contains under the water is rarely found anywhere in the world, especially the Ras Mohammed area, which has an annual number of practitioners (10 thousand) divers.

Diving areas:

-Ras Mohammed area to the south.

-Ras Umm Sid area  to Al-Tawer area in the north, beginning of the Gulf of Aqaba.

-There are also more than 20 internationally recognized diving training centers in the region, and the trainee is given a diving license and is inspected by international organizations (PADI).

Sail sport:Visitors come from all over the world to enjoy the air, the sea and the water sports area served by more than 50 hotels and 100 diving centers.

 Fishing:It is known that the region has the largest amount of different types of ornamental fish and fishing fish, and annual international competitions are held in which fishing professionals from all over the world participate and prizes are presented to them.

Tourism reserves in Sharm El-Sheikh:

-Ras Mohammed Reserve:Ras Mohammed was declared a natural reserve in 1983 as the first natural reserve in Egypt.The reserve is located at the confluence of the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba in the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula, about 12 km from Sharm El-Sheikh and about 70 km from the city of Al-Tur.

-Abu Gallum Reserve:The Abu Gallum Reserve is located on the Gulf of Aqaba, on the road between Sharm El-Sheikh and Taba, in an area called Wadi Al-Rasasa, and it was declared a reserve in 1992.This area is characterized by a special topography and an integrated environmental system that combines the desert and mountainous environment and the range of valleys that permeate it, which adds a special beauty to the area.

In addition to a marine environment rich in wonderful qualities of coral reefs and colorful fish.There is also a rich wildlife in the reserve that includes deer, wildebeests, foxes, hyraxes, mother of quills, dorsal hedgehog, and many rodents and reptiles.

Nabq Reserve: The Nabq region was considered a natural reserve in 1992. This reserve is located in the area between Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab, and Wadi Um Adawi in South Sinai. The reserve is 35 kilometers north of Sharm El-Sheikh.