Sharm El-Shaikh

                          Sharm El-Shaikh                                                                                                                                   

        Sharm El-Sheikh is an Egyptian tourist city, located at the confluence of the Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez on the Red Sea coast. It covers an area of ​​480 square kilometres, and has a population of 35,000. It is the largest city in South Sinai Governorate. The city includes tourist resorts frequented by visitors from all over the world, and it is famous as one of the international diving centers that attract amateurs and professionals of this sport. Ras Kannasa, Sharm El Maya, Nakhlet El-Tabel along with the Ras Mohammed Reserve located to the south and the Nabq Reserve between it and Dahab, and Naama Bay at the confluence of the continents of Asia and Africa. It contains more than 200 hotels and resorts in addition to restaurants, cafes, commercial markets, entertainment cities, nightclubs and casinos                                                                                                                          

        Natural and tourist attractions                                                         Tiran Island                                                                      

Tiran Island is located on an area of ​​61 km at the base of the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba towards the Ras Muhammad area, and it is about 6 km from the eastern coast of Sinai. The island is formed from rainwater and winter torrents that collect in the rocky holes that were formed by carving the falling waters. In the past, the island was called (Etape region), as it was the imperial customs station in the Byzantine era during the sixth century AD to collect taxes from the commercial convoys coming from India to the Byzantine ports   

Large Byzantine ships and small boats trading in spices of all kinds passed by on the eastern shore of the Red Sea. From the island of Tiran, ships sailed to the port of Aqaba (Ayla in the past) and to the sea port of Suez (Qolzum in the past), and from there by land to Alexandria and to the Nile River, and there it was Orient products are distributed to all countries of the Mediterranean basin.

                                                                                                                                                     Sanafir Island

Sanafir Island is located about 2.5 km west of Tiran Island. It has an open southern bay, which serves as a shelter for ships in case of emergency. After Israel occupied the port of Eilat, Egypt took several measures to strengthen its position in the Gulf of Aqaba, so it occupied the islands of Tiran and Sanafir in January 1950, which control the Gulf and installed coastal guns at the entrance to the Gulf, and closed the Strait of Tiran in the face of Israeli navigation, and Sanafir Island was located in that The time was under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia until 1952, when the kingdom ceded the island to Egypt so that Egypt could declare its full and sole sovereignty over the Gulf of Aqaba and the Straits of Tiran.                                                                                                                                                                                             Ras Mohammed Reserve

         The Ras Mohammed area is characterized by coral beaches located in the depths of the watery ocean of Ras Mohammed, colorful fish, endangered sea turtles and rare aquatic organisms. Coral reefs surround Ras Mohammed on all its marine sides, and there are many water caves at the bottom of the peninsula. The reserve is home to many birds, animals and insects, and there are many types of marine animals as well as about 150 types of coral reefs. There are also many fossils in the reserve that range in age from 75 thousand years to 20 million years