Hurghada Trips

weekend breaks for residents of Cairo

Set on the Red Sea Coast, around 250 km northeast of Luxor, Hurghada is a bustling coastal town.

The place is flanked on either side by ribbons of beach resorts and condo developments.

The area is renowned for its high quality diving and is a popular beach resort for both international visitors and wealthy Egyptians.

The area also contains some pretty islands and remote beaches, which can be accessed by boat.

The Hurghada area is rarely combined with archaeological explorations along the Nile.

However, it can be reached relatively easily by road from Luxor, so can be used as an alternative to continuing south down the Nile to Aswan.

Hurghada is more commonly visited as a beach package, with multiple daily flight connections with Cairo and European flight hubs.

These mass-market beach vacationers are often brought by road into Luxor on day trips, which is the main reason sites like Karnak need to be visited during the early morning or late afternoon.

relatively rarely combined with the Nile Valley