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Tourism to Sharm El Sheikh

With its unique location in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, Sharm El Sheikh is considered as the meeting point between Asia and Africa and the cradle of great civilizations. With its diverse features of environment that combine together history, industry and agriculture, Sharm El Sheikh has become a huge attraction for tourists and businessmen. Sharm El Sheikh, the biggest and most important city of Sinai, lies at the southern fl ank of the Peninsula where the gulfs of Aqaba and Suez meet with the Red Sea.

Sharm El Sheikh, with its dramatic mountain landscape, offers a huge variety of tourist attractions including warm deep-blue seas and world-class diving, excellent beaches, golf, quad biking in the desert, an equestrian centre, ice skating and a national park. The resort also gives a real taste of Egyptian life and culture and serves as a base to visit some of the many historic sites that surround it. Mount Sinai is close by and according to Christian belief, this is where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Mount Sinai is more than 2,200 metres high and from the peak, where the Chapel of the Holy Trinity is sited, the views of the Sinai desert are breathtaking.

Travelling to Sharm El Sheikh

With Sharm El Sheikh being such a popular year round tourist and conference destination, there are scheduled and charter fl ights operating from all major UK and European airports. UK’s fl agship carrier British Airways are now operating three direct services a week from London Gatwick. Other airlines regularly fl ying direct to Sharm El Sheikh are Easy Jet, Air France, Alitalia, BMI, Eurofl y, KLM, Lufthansa, Jet2, Swiss, Egypt Air, Royal Jordanian, Thomson and other charter and scheduled airlines.

The airport is located approximately 18km northeast of Sharm El Sheikh, near Ras Nasrani. The airport is situated just off a major road which follows the coast directly into Sharm El Sheikh and the journey time is around 20 minutes.

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