Sharm el-Sheikh is known for over 500 resorts. Hotels are mostly two-storey buildings blended into green areas. Today, almost the entire coastline is already built. Sharm el-Sheikh is the richest part of the Sinai. Residing it sheikhs who put on the development and popularization of the region, hence the excellent infrastructure and tourist service on the highest level. Here his residences has also former President Hosni Mubarak, many Arab politicians and businessmen. Every year, tourists come from all over the world to enjoy the wonderful weather and soak up the sun.
There is a 255 different coral reefs and more than 1,000 species. In Sharm el-Sheikh are located 140 schools and bases diving. Until the mid 80's to the city came almost exclusively amateur diving. Today, they constitute only 20-30% of the total number of tourists. The city has to offer more than 30 dive sites are available both from the shore and from boats, which are marked by buoys.
Almost the entire shore in Sharm el-Sheikh are the underwater coral gardens. In the area the city you can admire the mangroves, can be found here approx. 50% of the total number of trees across the northern hemisphere. In the immediate vicinity of the city is Ras Mohammed National Park covering a vast area of desert and captivating coral reefs and Shark Observatory.
The city is also the starting point to other tourist attractions of the region, among others, Mount Sinai, Monastery of St. Catherine, Coloured Canyon, Blue Hole, Serabit el-Khadim, Hammam Faraun, as well as Israel, the island of Tiran, Cairo, Luxor, Abu Simbel and the surrounding area of Hurghada and Petra in Jordan. Sharm el-Sheikh is often a transit city round trips Israel and Jordan.
In Sharm el-Sheikh airport is located. It is the largest international airport in the Sinai peninsula, serving traffic Intrastate and the European and Middle East. The city is also a seaport serving regular lines to Hurghada (approx. 2 hrs.), As well as routes and tourist cruise organized, usually by large travel agencies. Bus station Delta Sharm offers bus connections to Cairo, Suez, Ismailia, Luxor, Alexandria and more important towns of the Sinai.
The temperature in the winter day is from 15 to 35 degrees Celsius in summer 20 to 45 degrees Celsius. Red Sea water temperature varies from 21 (winter season) to 30 degrees Celsius in the summer. Low air humidity (approx. 4%) allows removal of these high temperatures. Rainfall here belong to the extraordinary rarity.
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