Description Safaga, Egypt

Luxury sandy beaches - a visiting card of the resort of Safaga. Holidays in Safaga - is primarily a family holiday. Beaches Safaga vacationers are not overloaded, and this is one of the main advantages of Safaga to other resorts in Egypt. Safaga is renowned for its unique, environmentally clean sand that can cure some diseases of musculoskeletal system and skin diseases.

The resort is located on the coast of Safaga, Red Sea, 60 kilometers south of Hurghada, along the strip of desert stretching between sea and mountains. Between Hurghada and Safaga, there are two lagoons and Makadi Bay Soma Bay.

In Safaga is one of the oldest ports of the Red Sea, which was established even when the Egyptian king Sahour as a base for trade and research of the Red Sea. For years, the port of Safaga was a center of bustling trade, and today this city, surrounded by a wide turquoise coves, long sandy beaches and beautiful islands, has become a popular tourist resort and sports center of the famous Red Sea Riviera.

Safaga consists of several resort areas: Panorama Reef, Middle Reef, Abu Kapan and Ra's Abu Soma. Tourism infrastructure in Safaga developed well enough. Along the coast there are several comfortable hotels and many excellent fish restaurants.

Holidays in Safaga is usually closely associated with water sports and tour of local attractions. Nightlife arranged during beach parties, organized by local divers and surfers.

Safaga is especially popular among windsurfers - no accident here in 1993, held the world championship on this water sport.

In Safaga, there are several outstanding diving centers Red Sea, which provide all the opportunities for scuba diving. Ideal place for diving are Panorama Reef, Middle Reef and Abu Kapan, where among the coral reefs can often be found of large marine animals - sharks and tunas, as well as to detect location of sunken ships.

Lovers of diving in addition to visits to coral reefs, may inspect the sunken passenger ferry tysyachetonny Salem Express, crashed on the reefs in December 1991. The ferry was carrying pilgrims from Saudi Arabia and for 395 of the 680 passengers all became a mass grave.

Water Bay, located on the shore kotogorogo Safaga, are famous for huge amount of coral reefs, damaging their richness, diversity and pristine untouched. Like other Red Sea resorts of Egypt, Safaga has everything necessary for high-quality year-round recreation.

Safaga is also known as a popular fitness center. Black sand beaches that attracted many fans of sunbathing and sea water with increased content of salts and minerals, have a beneficial effect on the body and is recommended for diseases such as psoriasis, bronchitis, rheumatism and many others. They say that the wife of an Egyptian pharaoh queen Hachepsut adopted annual medical procedures in Safaga.

The city is a convenient starting point for trips to the eastern desert, where you can see the quarries of Mons Klaudianus, in which the Roman emperors extracted the highest quality granite for the construction of their monumental structures. Local tour operators organize excursions to Luxor, where many of the most impressive sights of Egypt.