Dahab City - Sinai

Dahab
( means Gold in Arabic) 

 is a small town situated on the southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Formerly a Bedouin fishing village. located approximately 80 km (50 mi) northeast of Sharm El Sheikh. Dahab is considered to be one of the most treasured diving destinations in sinai. 
Following The Six Day War, the town was occupied by Israel and was known in Hebrew as Di-Zahav, named after a place mentioned in the Bible , as one of the stations for the Israelites during the Exodus from Egypt. The Sinai Peninsula was restored to Egyptian rule in the Israel - Egypt Peace Treaty in 1982 .

The arrival of international hotel chains and the establishment of other ancillary facilities has since made the town a popular destination with tourists. Dahab is served by Sharm El - Sheikh International Airport.

Dahab can be divided into three major parts:
Masbat, which includes the bedouin village Asalah, is in the north. 
South of Masbat is Mashraba, which is more touristic and has considerably more hotels.
In the southwest is Medina which includes the Laguna area, famous for its excellent shallow-water windsurfing.

Also Asalah is quite developed. The area is full of camps and hostels since most people who have visited Dahab in the past were backpackers interested in diving and snorkeling in the Red Sea.

Dahab enjoys large numbers of tourists. It is world-renowned for its Windsurfing.

Scuba Diving, Free Diving and Snorkelling are popular activities with many reefs adjacent to waterfront hotels.

Land based activities include Camel , Horse , jeep and Quad bike trips. Mount Sinai is a 2 hours drive with St. Catherine Monastery being a popular tourist destination. Historically, most visitors to Dahab have been backpackers travelling independently and staying in hostels in the Masbet area. In recent years, development of hotels in the Medina area has facilitated the arrival of a wider range of tourists, many of whom visit Dahab specifically to partake in the windsurfing, diving and other activities.

Blue Hole - Red Sea

Blue Hole (Red Sea)
Blue Hole is a popular diving location on east Sinai
a few kilometres north of Dahab - Egypt on the coast of The Red Sea
The Blue Hole is a submarine( Sink Hole) a kind of a cave around 130 m deep. 

There is a shallow opening around 6 m deep, known as 'the saddle opening out to the sea, 

and a 26 m long tunnel, known as the arch, the top of which lies at a depth of 56 m. 

The hole itself and the surrounding area has an abundance of coral and reef fish.
opening out to the sea, and a 26 m long tunnel, known as the arch, the top of which lies at a depth of 56 m. The hole itself and the surrounding area has an abundance of coral and reef fish.
The Blue Hole is notorious for the number of diving fatalities which have occurred there, earning it the sobriquet "World's Most Dangerous Dive Site" and the nickname "Diver's Cemetery".
Accidents are frequently caused when divers attempt to find the tunnel through the reef (known as "The Arch") connecting the Blue Hole and open water at about 52 m depth
this is beyond the PADI maximum advanced recreational diving limit of 40 metres and the effect of nitrogen narcosis is significant at this depth
Divers who miss the tunnel sometimes continue descending, hoping to find the tunnel farther down and become increasingly narced.
The "Arch"is reportedly extremely deceptive in several ways:

 It is difficult to detect because of the odd angle between the arch, open water, and the hole itself.

 Because of the dim lighting and the fact that most light enters from outside, it appears shorter than it really is. Divers report that the Arch appears less than 10 m long but measurements have shown it is 26 m from one end to the other.
 There is frequently a current flowing inward through the arch towards the Blue Hole, increasing the time it takes to swim through.
The arch continues downward to the seabed which is beyond view and there is therefore no "reference" from below.

 

Of ancient Egyptian civilization

Fun and gentle of the most prominent characteristics of the ancient Egyptians,

often called the wise men and their parents take them to the causes of joy and fun in life, wherever they are.
But did not forget to get the joy and pleasure, even as they disclose to visit the graves and the dead.
Says one of the songs in the Banquet food that they were getting up at Graves:
Treat yourself as long as you live, put the perfume on your head, and wear linen, beautiful, aromatherapy and massage your hands the Holy smart, and more delights, and do not let grief up to your heart, be cheerful

Gamal Hamdan and Egypt

Gamal Hamdan 

( well known egyptian writer ) 
said in his book (personal Egypt) that the place is one of the governing community character and the collective conscience of the community. 

Egypt's strategic location made ​​it an official who is always around him,Or minimum term did not come from a vacuum. 

Egypt

is surrounded by desert to the east and the sea from the north and Sudan to the south and in the Levant from the East, which opened up the Nile from beginning to end has always been a place of invaders, all unanimously agreed on the importance and the desire to occupation, it is interesting to know that Egypt lasted thousands of years to come back and ruled by one of its sons, Abdul Nasser.

Hurghada - Egypt

Hurghada

It is a main tourist center and second largest city (after Suez) in Egypt located on the Red Sea coast.

The city was founded in the early 20th century,
and since the 1980s has been continually enlarged by Egyptian and foreign investors to become the leading seashore resort on the Red Sea.
Holiday villages and hotels provide aquatic sport facilities for sailboarders, yachtsmen, scuba divers and snorkelers. Hurghada stretches for about 36 kilometres (22 mi) along the seashore,
and it does not reach far into the surrounding desert.
The resort is a destination for Egyptian tourists from Cairo, 

the Delta and Upper Egypt, as well as package holiday tourists from Europe, notably Serbs, Italians, Russians, Poles, Czechs and Germans. Until a few years ago it was a small fishing village.
Today Hurghada  is divided into three parts:
Downtown (El Dahar) is the old part,
Sekalla is the city center,
and El Memsha (Village road) is the modern part.
Dahar is where the town's largest bazaar, the post office and the long-distance bus station are situated. Although a town in its own right Hurgada’s current major industry is foreign and domestic tourism, owing to its dramatic landscape, year-round dry and temperate climate and long stretches of natural beaches. Its waters are clear and calm for most of the year and have become popular for various watersports, particularly recreational scuba diving and snorkelling.

Sharm el Sheikh City

 Sharm Elsheikh

is a city situated on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate, Egypt, on the coastal strip along the Red Sea.

Sharm el-Sheikh is the administrative hub of Egypt's South Sinai Governorate,which includes the smaller coastal towns of Dahab and Nuweiba as well as the mountainous interior, Saint Catherine's Monastery and Mount Sinai.

Sharm el-Sheikh is sometimes called the "City of Peace", referring to the large number of international peace conferences that have been held there. It was known as bay of the Sheikh during Ottoman rule and was known as Ofira during Israeli occupation between 1967 and 1982 .

 
Sharm el-Sheikh is on a promontory  overlooking the Straits of Tiran at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba. Its strategic importance led to its transformation from a fishing village into a major port and naval base for the Egyptian Navy. It was captured by Israel during theSuez Crisis of 1956 and restored to Egypt in 1957. A United Nations peacekeeping force was subsequently stationed there until the 1967 Six - Day War when it was recaptured by Israel. Sharm el-Sheikh remained under Israeli control until the Sinai peninsula was restored again to Egypt in 1982 after the Israel - Egypt Peace Treaty of 1979. A with this approach the Gulf of Aqaba zone was subdivided into four cities: Taba, Nuweiba , Dahab and Sharm El-Sheikh. 
Sharm el-Sheikh city has been subdivided into five homogeneous centers, namely Nabq, Ras Nusrani, Naama Bay, Umm Sid and Sharm El Maya. 
After Sinai was restored to Egypt in 1982 the Egyptian government embarked on an initiative to encourage continued development of the city. Foreign investors – some of whom had discovered the potential of the locality during the Israeli occupation – contributed to a spate of building projects.

The nightlife of Sharm El-Sheikh is modern and developed. The colorful handicraft stands of the local Bedouin culture are a popular attraction. A number of international hotels and noted restaurants are clustered around the centre of Sharm, known as Naama Bay.

Unfinished obelisk - Aswan

The unfinished obelisk

The Unfinished Obelisk
is the largest known ancient obelisk, located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan (Assuan), Egypt. It is unknown which pharaoh created this structure. 

It is nearly one third larger than any ancient Egyptian obelisk ever erected.
If finished it would have measured around 42 m (approximately 137 feet) and would have weighed nearly 1,200 tons.

Archeologists speculate that it was intended to complement the so-called Lateran Obelisk which was originally at Karnak and is now outside the Lateran Palace in Rome.

(Thutmose III obelisk in Lateran, Rome: 105 ft)