South Sinai's Beach Life

On the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, the South Sinai area has a beach for everyone. South Sinai is known for its excellent diving and snorkeling, its important history as Moses' motherland, its own culture, the mountains with their unique natural beauty.

Sharm el-Sheikh is a European-style resort town with a variety of luxury hotels, international restaurants, and recreational opportunities. Many of the resorts here appeal to families on one- or two-week sun-and-sand holidays, which are popular with Europeans on winter sun vacations. Dahab is a low-key beach town with a backpacker hostel heart, with a focus on desert expeditions and adventures as well as the sea. It's famous for its low-cost dive package and its lagoon beach region, where windsurfing and kitesurfing are the most popular activities. The bamboo hut retreats, located between the port town of Nuweiba and the border town of Taba, bring you the best relaxing time behind busy life at the beach.