Sights Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
The resort consists of several bays:Bay Naama Bay (Naama Bay) - the most famous tourist destination. This unofficial center of Sharm El-Sheikh. Most hotels are built in Arabic style, which makes the center unique oriental flavor. This is a place distinguished by the presence outside the hotel elite sports grounds, centers on a scuba diving, restaurants, casinos and nightclubs. To the north and south of Naama Bay continues to build new hotels.
Sharm El Maya Bay (Sharm El 'Maiya) is located 7 miles from the Bay of Naama Bay and it is also famous for its beaches (sandy), hotels and eastern markets.
Come in Sharm el-Sheikh - and the tour will surprise you with its brightness, because the area has a number of very interesting historical and natural monuments. St. Catherine's Monastery, Colored Canyon, Island of the Pharaohs, the mountain of Moses ... Egypt is full of mysterious and wonderful places, and you must be able to visit them if you go on vacation in the resort area of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Mount Moses - the most famous landmark resort Sharm el-Sheikh. Mount Moses stands next to the monastery of St. Catherine, her height is over 2000 meters. According to the legend at the top of this mountain the Lord gave Moses the tablets of the Ten Commandments of Faith. Every night, dozens of pilgrims from around the world to climb Mount Moses, met here dawn and purified from their sins.
St. Catherine's Monastery - a Christian monastery, built in the 6 th century. At the monastery, situated among the rocks at a height of fifteen hundred feet above sea level, increasing the burning bush - a bush in a flame which, according to the Old Testament, God first appeared to the prophet Moses. In the main monastery church kept relics of Saint Catherine ...
Colored Canyon, located in the Sinai mountains near the resort of Nuweiba, is a natural attraction zone Sharm el-Sheikh. This canyon, formed millions of years ago by an earthquake, consists of a folded red sandstone, in which the wind cut intricate shapes. The gorge is about five kilometers, the height of twenty-five - thirty meters and the width of two to ten meters.
In the Red Sea coast, near the resort of Taba, do not miss the opportunity to visit the tiny island of the Pharaohs. On this island is still well preserved Crusader fortress - Salah El Din, erected in the 13 century. Near the island fjord is of exceptional beauty. On the Island of the Pharaohs are organized sea trips with inspection of the fortress, swimming at the beach of the island and survey of coral reefs.
On the shore of the Red Sea before resting the magic world of coral reefs, rare fish and mangroves. You will see a geological faults land - the result of earthquakes, and another miracle - a unique marine nature reserve of Ras Mohamed. It is located at the southernmost tip of the Sinai Peninsula and among the ten best places in the world for diving and snorkel and tube. You can even swim near the dolphins. Riddle of the reserve of Ras Mohamed - Magic Bay, so named because the locals. Bay and in fact impossible to discern in the photographs taken by satellites. Because of the marine source water is very salty and is similar in composition to the Dead Sea water, that a favorable effect on health. Having plunged into the waters of the bay with his head, you can make a wish, which will come true
