Holidays in Hurghada, Egypt 2010

Everyone needs a break from time to time to "charge the batteries" and have a break from everyday duties. We decided to be like pharaons - with the full service and high standard we went to the place where weather is 99% certain - hot with warm sea - Egypt!

Egypt is a lovely place for these reasons:

• amazing coral reefs close to the hotels and sea surface so we could have do snorkelling instead of diving. We have seen amazing, colourful reefs with wonderful fishes - all sizes and colours. Once we went on the boat trip with few stops to see different reefs in the sea - I recommend that trip - to Giftun Island where after snorkelling everyone can relax on sand beach.
• ancient places are very close to wherever you go. We were staying in Hurghada so decided to go to Luxor to see the Pharaoh tombs in the mountains. These are placed deep underneath the mountains.
• Luxor Temple - magnificent temple with large columns and statues decorated with colourful paintings all over them

It was very enjoyable stay... however adventurous as always...

• 20 minutes before we landed in Egypt the Polish president's airplane with him and 80 other Polish officials crashed in Russia and national mourning was announced for a week (week of our holidays!)... so the atmosphere among the Polish tourists was not the best...
• Because of the ash cloud our one week holidays were extended to one more week... The waiting was quite exhausting as the officials were "closing" and "opening" the sky every couple of hours. In the meantime we were transferred to 2** hotel with friendly staff but horrible standard (cats in the restaurant, awful food). After first lunch I caught the Pharaohs disease which is quite unpleasant and ended in the doctor's office...

But hey! Egypt is still worth going to see the reefs, enjoy great weather, warm sea and ancient architecture and places!

Morturary Temple of Hatshepsut

Ancient painting

Paint is still fresh and colourful after so many centuries!

Colossi of Memnon

Luxor and Nile

Entrance to the Luxor Temple. The alley of gods with the ram heads.

The scarab for luck:)

One of the very few obelisks which survived in the Egpyt.

The bay at the Sunny Days hotel, which I recommend at it has this natural swimming pool!

Magnificent columns in the Luxor Temple with paintings and sculptures carved in them.

Relaxing at the red sea which is so clear and transparent that you can see the reef even on this picture!

Marta at our hotel's bay with the BagIt Poland bag!

Sunny Days Hotel - I recommend this hotel as it has natural bay of the sea and the hotel rooms are around it! It is natural swimming pool! 

The sunset at the Red Sea.

More pictures from Egypt with M&M on them is available as usual in my Picasa album:

Holidays in Hurghada, Egypt 2010