Sharm el-Sheikh
Sharm El Sheikh, alternatively rendered Sharm el-Sheikh or Charm el Sheikh, is an Egyptian city located on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate, on the coastal strip along the Red Sea in Asia.
Sharm El Sheikh, alternatively rendered Sharm el-Sheikh or Charm el Sheikh, is an Egyptian city located on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate, on the coastal strip along the Red Sea in Asia. Its population is approximately 77,000 as of 2017. Sharm El Sheikh is the administrative hub of Egypt's South Sinai Governorate, which includes the smaller coastal towns of Dahab and Nuweiba as well as the mountainous interior, St. Catherine and Mount Sinai.
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Worth seeing in and around Sharm el-Sheikh
2 places 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.
- 01Al-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.
6.3 km · Mosque in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt · Wikipedia - 02Ghazala 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.
500 m · building in Egypt · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sharm el-Sheikh
- Airports
- Sharm El Sheikh (SSH), 10 km · Neom Bay (NUM), 95 km · Hurghada (HRG), 97 km
- Stations
- Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, 9.6 km
- Hurghada → Sharm el-Sheikh89 km · quickest by ferry, 4h 55m · E£228–755
- Marsa Alam → Sharm el-Sheikh322 km · quickest by road, 16h 6m · E£5,465–8,975
- Luxor → Sharm el-Sheikh298 km · quickest by road, 16h 11m · E£5,465–8,975
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No local-transport research exists yet for Sharm el-Sheikh
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 Sharm el-Sheikh. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Sharm el-Sheikh
- Na'ama Baybay in the area of Sharm ash-Shaykh700 m
- Ofirahuman settlement in Egypt6.2 km