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Egypt
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The Red Sea Coast is a region of eastern Egypt, along the 800 km western shore of that sea, from Port Suez in the north to the Sudanese border in the south. Egypt's Sinai Peninsula also borders the Red Sea and has a resort strip, but is governed as a separate region and is not described here.
By road
Buses, long-distance taxis and private cars ply the long desert roads from Cairo and Luxor.
By boat
Ferries sail between Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh in Sinai. During the pilgrimage season they also cross to Saudi Arabia but are not sailing in 2020. There are no ferries through the Suez Canal.
By train
6 trains per a day run from Cairo to Port Suez, taking a little over two hours. But there is little onward transport along the coast, you might have to backtrack to Cairo to reach the beach resorts.
All the resorts lie along Highway 65, the route from Cairo down to the Sudan border, so there is at least a daily bus between these towns (though it may run full, and fly past intermediate points).
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Port Suez is a major port on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt, 123 km east of Cairo.
Ain Sokhna (Arabic: العين السخنة) is a port and resort town along Egypt's Red Sea Coast situated 55 km (34 mi) south of Port Suez and approximately 120 km (75 mi) east of Cairo.
El Gouna (الجونة) is a self-sufficient, fully integrated resort town of 24,000 on the Egyptian Red Sea Coast just north of Hurghada. The town offers a large variety of activities and entertainment and is a popular destination around the year.
Hurghada (Arabic: الغردقة el-ğarda’a) is a resort town on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt. Famous for its superb diving opportunities, Hurghada is especially appealing to those with little experience of scuba diving, who come to marvel at the underwater reefs and awesome marine life.
Soma Bay is a resort on the Red Sea Coast in Egypt developed by the Soma Bay Development Company established in 1991. It is a private city, meaning you must have a booking (hotel or daily activity (diving, snorkelling, sailing, golf, etc) to enter it.
Port Safaga is a harbour city on the Red Sea Coast in Egypt close to the resort city of Soma Bay, which is a quite expensive place with lots of resorts. So, if you want to explore the region, Port Safaga can be a cheaper place to stay.
El Quseir (spellings vary: Kosseir, Al Qusair, Quseir, Qusseir, Qosseir; Arabic: القصير el oSēr) is a fishing town 100 km north of Marsa Alam on the Red Sea Coast of eastern Egypt.
Port Ghalib (Arabic: پورت غالب port ğāleb) is in Marsa Alam (Arabic: مرسى علم marsa `alam) along the southern Red Sea Coast of Egypt, 67 km south of El Quseir City.
Marsa Alam (Arabic :مرسى علم, Marsā ʿAlam) is a resort town on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt.
Home to a variety of wildlife, including the endangered Nubian ibex and the endangered Egyptian vulture.
An important destination for ecotourism.
A geopolitical oddity: it's a desert between Egypt and Sudan in the shape of a trapezoid, which neither country claims (terra nullius) and which virtually has no infrastructure.
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