well, the war in mid east (syria, iraq & co.) is the main issue in egypt as well. especially the tourists from russia are hardly missing by egyptian tourist business after the russian passenger airplane was shut down over sinai / egypt few months ago...
source: facebook here
well, it was nice + really warm air + water temperatures here even when we have only march, my dears. we enjoyed a rich sports program with volleyball, table tennis + swimming, so it was really nice for us from the tourist perspective. there was even not so much police/army controls as in sinai 3 years ago .... but yes, the folks out there i speak to were quite afraid that even massive protest against the system does not help as the police / army would always crash it down :( ...
well, there is a huge difference between bottom-up protests like the OccupyWallStreet movement 2011-2012 and between top-down organized 'color revolutions' like in ukraine 2014 (maidan), ukraine 2004 (orange revolution) or the capitulation of the whole east european socialists countries soviet union, poland, hungary, czechoslovakia, east germany, romania, bulgaria, etc. in 1989-1990, isn't it?
hurghada, the young tourist city at the red sea
sahara desert (nubian / arab desert)
our hotel fort arabesque in the makadi bay south to hurghada
makadi beach
haha, this is the makadi spa hotel, we have spent 10 days in march 2023 😄
mr. bird
back to hurghada
a new church (approx. 4 years old)
a new mosque
meat seller in the street
there is no old hurghada, but there are still few original 80 years old
there is no old hurghada, but there are still few original 80 years old
floor fishermen houses near the port
the hindu god of gods ganesha and eros in sand city, hurghada
more pictures here
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