Hurghada Guide

The Hurghada Grand Aquarium — "Red Sea in Glass" — is a public aquarium holding more than 1,200 animals across roughly 100 species, in nearly a million US gallons of marine and freshwater. It is one of the largest in the region[...]

Sand City is an open-air museum of sculptures carved entirely from sand, and it is the only one of its kind in Africa or the Middle East. Artists from a dozen countries spent seven months building it. It sounds like a novelty and it is[...]

The Giftun Islands — Giftun Kebir (the large one) and Giftun Sughayer (the small one) — lie about an hour by boat from Hurghada and form part of a protected marine reserve. Between them they hold the beaches and reefs that most[...]

You do not need a certification, a course or any equipment of your own to see the best of the Red Sea. A mask, a snorkel and a boat get you over living coral within an hour of Hurghada — which is why snorkeling trips are the most booked thing[...]

Sahl Hasheesh is a purpose-built bay 25 km south of Hurghada, laid out around a long crescent of beach. It was designed rather than grown, which makes it calm, spacious and slightly unreal — and means that everything you do here needs a[...]