As a holiday resort, Hurghada has a sum of longer history than Sharm el-Sheik. This resort which stretches from Safaga throughout the Makadi Bay until’Dahar is a coast of 25 kilometers, which is now full of beautiful hotels and apartments.
Hurghada has two centers, Sakala and Dahar. Transportation is solved by buses of the travel agencies, by taxis or by cheaper larger taxis. In the city, there is an aquarium and maritime museum despite the fact that it does not require much effort at all to encounter the creatures of the red sea in their natural habitat.
Dahar is mostly known for its shops and restaurants, there are not too many monuments. Well known as the newly built Islamic mosque which was consecrated only a few years ago but looks as if it were several hundred years old. The modest church of the Copts is much older.
The Greeks called the Egyptians, Aegyptos, hence the Arabic, Gypt, which became Copt though the centuries. According to the chronicles, it was Saint Mark who brought Christianity to Alexandria in the 1st century. The five Patriarchs parted ways with the Catholic Church in the 451, today around 7% of the population belongs to this denomination.
All the hotels are on the seaside and have their own beaches and harbors. The hotels try to please their visitors in all kinds of ways. There are small pools, slides near the larger pools but children’s pools and the Jacuzzis are also everywhere. Besides European cuisines, they also offer Arab Dishes, mostly an imitation Bedouin tense. One can enjoy a hookah pipe and belly dancing here. If there's no separate children’s restaurants, there is a children’s menu. Host and program directors take care of sports and recreation, and there's a different kind of production each evening.
Glass bottomed boats depart from several hotels to the nearby, uninhabited Giftun Island. The Red Sea has one of the largest fish populations on earth. There's an opportunity to sea playful dolphins during such a trip since 4 dolphin subspecies live here. Besides the uncredible number of corals, starfish, mussels and crabs, there are three kinds of turtles, calamares, octopi, jellyfish, and rays living here. The most beautiful of the fishes are the 10 centimeter long yellow, turquoise, orange or blue fishes that swim around the coral reefs. The most well-known are the sail fish, the clown fish, the king fish, and the unusually shaped stone fish.
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