Sharm El Sheikh

Located on the southern point of the Sinai Peninsula, Sharm el Sheikh has become a popular destination for holiday-makers wanting to take in a spot of scuba diving whilst they are away from home.

This Red Sea boasts some of the most interesting sites to dive such as Ras Om El Sid and Ras Mohammed as well as the wrecks of the Dunraven and the Thistlegorm.

Accommodation is generally of five star quality and there are plenty of grand hotels to choose from. However, there are also many more basic options if you simply need somewhere to get your head down after a day’s diving.

Of course, you will find that Sharm El Sheikh has a lot more than diving to offer although it is a place more suited to water sports than shopping, for example. Water based activities include snorkelling, para-sailing,  canoeing  or taking a glass bottom boat ride over the complex coral known as “the brain”.

Flights to Sharm El Sheikh are now scheduled regularly and it’s only a fifteen minute drive from the Sharm airport to the resort.  If you wish to visit other places of interest whilst on holiday, there is a regular bus service which runs from Sharm el Sheikh all the way to Cairo, a whole new experience in itself but nonetheless a cheap way of getting out and about.