Many tourists in Egypt are limited to their local hotel and are absolutely not interested in what is beyond it. Meanwhile, in the near and far Egypt you can find many interesting things. And it is not even necessary to spend a lot of money on travelling while the saving options are multiple. The thing is getting even more convenient if your first stop to this mystery land is Hurghada.
Marina Port, Fish Market, Shipyard
Some interesting excursions can be arranged entirely for free, so you can go ahead and put away your wallet and easy cash advances. In the early morning here you’ll witness fish market, which are organized not only for locals but also for many of the restaurants and even hotels. Of course, the place can boast of being clean, but the rich experience of the diversity of the underwater world, lined on the shelves, is guaranteed.
Going a little deeper, you can get to the shipyards, where the huge number of people are engaged in the production of luxury yachts with absolutely primitive methods. And I must say, it turns out to look quite nice. Seeing all of this, as well as many other boats in action leisurely strolling along the shores of the sea everything will seem to be quite clean, very good, and even romantic.
El Gouna
A small village 30 kilometers from Hurghada is known for its canals, which are luxury villas, and a very cozy spot to unwind pastime atmosphere. You can get here by boat in the company of compatriots: set that costs about $ 40. On campus you can walk on foot, riding a rented bike or riding the shuttle, daily ticket for which is again only £ 5. This interesting place gains the attention of the tourists especially due to the lack fact of almost any kind of staff that is necessary to have a quite and relaxing time-spending.
Monasteries of St. Anthony and St. Paul
Christian monasteries, bearing the names of St. Anthony and St. Paul are located 250 kilometers from Hurghada. People say that the monastery of St. Anthony is the first monastic abode on earth. To reach it, you would have to overcome 1,333 steps. Excursions in this still active monasteries are led by the monks themselves. Visitors can bathe in the sacred sources; however, the girls have to take care of wearing something more closed than the conventional swimwear.
Cairo
Planning a trip to the capital of Egypt,you should clearly understand that in one day you cannot get even a minimal understanding of this city. So it’s much better to plan at least a two-day trip, given that only a normal viewing of the pyramids would take at least one day.
Bus Tickets Hurghada-Cairo will cost $ 20-30, while the road would be approximately 5 hours and they go with every hour counts. A complexity of housing in Cairo almost never arises due to the fact that there are a lot of nice private hotels and hostels with great service.
Attending the mosque, the citadel and the Muslim town is better to be done early in the morning, when the place is not yet that crowded. Another interesting option might be walking through the museums, or riding a boat on the Nile. In the evening, certainly it’s worth to organize a trip to the island of Gezira, strolling through its parks and climbing to the Cairo Tower to admire the city from a bird’s-eye view.
Alexandria
To get from Cairo to Alexandria, once the capital of the state, can be quite convenient on the train for only three hours. With proper skills you’ll manage to have time to examine all the main attractions: Montasio Palace, Greco-Roman amphitheater, the mosque of Abu El-Abbas, the Roman museum, Pompey’s pillar and the catacombs. If you want to speed up the process and get less tired, you can get one of the taxi drivers to help you out, who would be happy to ride you around the city for $ 20-30 and bring back to the station for the evening train.
Luxor
Another ancient capital of Egypt, Thebes, is just three hundred kilometers from Hurghada. The city is now turned into a museum under the open sky, separating with two parts of the Nile. The eastern part, “city living”, will delight visitors with two grand cathedrals: Luxor and Karnak. On the west bank of the same, in the “city of the dead, you can admire the Colossi of Memnon, Valley of the Pharaohs and the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. And if you have enough forces, you can also stop at Medinet-Abu – funerary temple of Ramses II.
Aswan
From Luxor you can go to Aswan, which is considered to be one of the most picturesque cities in Egypt. Train from Luxor to Aswan is three hours and will cost $ 5. Even during winter time in Aswan it’s warm and windless, and the temperature never drops below 25 degrees Celsius. The main pride of the city is the huge and rich botanical garden with a large collection of palms. From the historical monuments of the most interesting to see are the mausoleum of the Aga Khan, the ruins of a Coptic monastery, the ancient ruins on the island of Elephantine and the granite quarries. And, of course, you can surely admire the Aswan Dam, with a viewing platform which offers a magnificent view over the city and formes a dam reservoir.
Abu Simbel
While in Aswan, you can go to the cut in the rocks on the shore of Lake Nasser, Abu Simbel temple, built to commemorate the victory of Ramses II over the Hittites, and as a token of love to the beautiful Nefertiti Pharaoh. Apparently, the victory for the pharaoh was still more important than his love, because the temple in honor of a beautiful wife is made with a smaller scale than the temple in honor of military exploits. By the way, the pharaohs did not suffer from modesty: Those statues of the gods, set at the entrance to the temple, repeat the person of the royal family.
