Day trips around Hurghada

Luxor, Cairo, the monasteries of St Anthony and St Paul… How to get there from Hurghada, opening hours, tickets and visit length.

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El Gouna: the lagoon town north of Hurghada

El Gouna is a seaside town created in 1990 by Samih Sawiris's Orascom Development group, about 20...

The Giftun islands (Giftun Kebir, the big one, and Giftun Soraya, the small one) form a protected...

The desert safari is the most booked land excursion in Hurghada. It leaves from the hotels in the...

The Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, holds the tombs of New Kingdom ph...

The Giza pyramids are about 450 km from Hurghada, on the far side of the Eastern Desert. The day ...

Orange Bay is a developed white-sand beach on Giftun Island, facing very clear turquoise water. I...

Paradise Island (also sold under the name Hula Hula) is a small island in the Giftun area, off Hu...

Mons Claudianus is a Roman granodiorite quarry, a grey stone flecked with black, worked in Egypt'...

Mons Porphyrites, the "porphyry mountain" (Gebel Abu Dukhan in Arabic), is the only known quarry ...

Safaga is a Red Sea port town about 50 to 65 km south of Hurghada depending on the source, roughl...

Hatshepsut's temple, at Deir el-Bahari on Luxor's west bank, is the mortuary temple of the queen-...

Karnak is the largest religious complex of ancient Egypt, a group of temples, pylons and obelisks...