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Natural bay in South Sinai, Egypt

Naama Bay

Naama Bay is a natural bay in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

Naama Bay
Naama Bay · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Naama Bay is a natural bay in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. It is considered the main hub for tourists in the city, as it is famous for its cafes, restaurants, hotels, and bazaars.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Naama Bay

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Ghazala Gardens hotel

    The Ghazala Gardens hotel Owens Now by Ahmed Ehab Abu Ghazala The hotel is a 176-room, four-star establishment in the Naama Bay area of the Egyptian beach resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, on the Sinai Peninsula. Its sister hotel, the Ghazala Beach, is across the street and is substantially larger.

    1.1 km · building in Egypt · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Naama Bay

Airports
Sharm El Sheikh (SSH), 10 km · Neom Bay (NUM), 94 km · Hurghada (HRG), 97 km
  • Hurghada → Naama Bay
    89 km · quickest by ferry, 4h 52m · E£228–755
  • Marsa Alam → Naama Bay
    322 km · quickest by road, 16h 4m · E£5,465–8,975
  • Luxor → Naama Bay
    298 km · quickest by road, 16h 9m · E£5,465–8,975
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Naama Bay

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Naama Bay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in{{go | name | url | address 27.977222 | long | phone | fax | price Sharm El Sheikh International Airport | image Q326268 | content=The largest airport in the Sinai, it receives plane-loads of charter tourists daily in the winter high season.
  • Get inFerry services between Hurghada on the mainland Red Sea Coast and Sharm were suspended in 2018.
  • Get aroundThere are also a fleet of blue and white tuk-tuks, which are basically small buses, of varying roadworthiness, which are used to ferry the locals around the resort of Sharm el Sheikh.
  • Get aroundTo hail a tuk-tuk, wait next to the side of the main street and raise your hand to flag one down as it approaches.
  • Go nextLots of day trips but it deserves several days to explore.

From Wikivoyage: Sharm el-Sheikh, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    DahabEG

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    68 km
  2. 02
    Wadi RumJO

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    213 km
  3. 03
    Petra and Wadi MusaJO

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    291 km
  4. 04
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,019 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,312 km

If you know how people move in Naama Bay – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Naama Bay