--- title: "Ofira – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Ofira, Egypt: Ofira is a former Israeli settlement in the Sharm El Sheikh area of the southern Sinai Peninsula, an Egyptian territory that was under…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ofira" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ofira.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/PikiWiki_Israel_75773_ofira.jpg/3840px-PikiWiki_Israel_75773_ofira.jpg" --- Former Israeli settlement in the Sinai Peninsula · Egypt # Ofira Ofira is a former Israeli settlement in the Sharm El Sheikh area of the southern Sinai Peninsula, an Egyptian territory that was under occupation from 1967 to 1982. ![Ofira](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/PikiWiki_Israel_75773_ofira.jpg/3840px-PikiWiki_Israel_75773_ofira.jpg) Ofira · Wikimedia Commons The place Ofira is a former Israeli settlement in the Sharm El Sheikh area of the southern Sinai Peninsula, an Egyptian territory that was under occupation from 1967 to 1982. Ofira was settled from 1969 and was meant to accommodate 500 families. An airfield was opened in 1968, today known as Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofira), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Ofira 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. Al-Sahaba Mosque The Al-Sahaba Mosque is a mosque located in the Old Market District of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Built in 2017, it is the second largest mosque in the city after the Al-Mostafa Mosque. 100 m · Mosque in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Sahaba_Mosque_(Sharm_el-Sheikh%29) 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 Ofira **Airports:** Sharm El Sheikh (SSH), 16 km · Hurghada (HRG), 91 km · Neom Bay (NUM), 98 km\ - Hurghada → Ofira 89 km · quickest by ferry, 4h 55m · E£228–755 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/hurghada-to-ofira) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Hurghada&to=Ofira) - Marsa Alam → Ofira 322 km · quickest by road, 16h 6m · E£5,465–8,975 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/marsa-alam-to-ofira) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Marsa+Alam&to=Ofira) - Luxor → Ofira 298 km · quickest by road, 16h 11m · E£5,465–8,975 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/luxor-to-ofira) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Luxor&to=Ofira) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Ofira) 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 Ofira 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 Ofira. 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 in Ferry services between Hurghada on the mainland Red Sea Coast and Sharm were suspended in 2018. - Get around There 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 around To 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 next Lots of day trips but it deserves several days to explore. From [Wikivoyage: Sharm el-Sheikh](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Dahab](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/dahab) EG 8 ways of moving, 29 sources 73 km 2. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 219 km 3. [Petra and Wadi Musa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/petra) JO 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 296 km 4. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 1,022 km 5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,314 km If you know how people move in Ofira – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cofira&title=Ofira&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fofira), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Ofira - [Sharm el-Sheikh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sharm-el-sheikh) city in South Sinai, Egypt 2 km [The place page for Ofira](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/ofira) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Egypt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-EG) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ofira, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt