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El Gouna Red Sea
EL Gouna Red Sea trip costs 45$/person through the travel agency and it lasts from 8:30 AM until 5:30 PM.
The road until El Gouna was made with the travel agency’s bus. When we reached at the resort we visited the aquarium – it was much smaller than I expected – with different kinds of fish (like 20 of them) from the Red Sea. The visit lasted around 30 minutes.
After visiting the aquarium, we headed to a restaurant, placed in front of the marine, where there were boats. There we could go at the bathroom and serve tea or juices (with money) … Here we stood another 30 minutes.
Then we went in the motor boats and did a small ride on the resort’s canals – it was like a small Venice. The resort is a state in a state – it has a landlord, called Suarez, which owns the entire land. Long time ago when there was only desert, the owner bought the land with 0.5 pounds (0.3 RON)/km₂ and by time he transformed the place into an expensive luxury resort. It has self government, self television and radio. Soon they want to make their own currency. A nice resort with hotels and from what I’ve seen from outside, I would recommend Movenpick and Steinberger (an exclusivist hotel for Germans and the ones which love to golf). On the resort’s canals, on one side, there were these amazing yachts, which can be rented for only 300 Euro/hour, and on both side you could see luxury villas, costing approximately 400.000$ one villa, with 5 rooms, without the land (the land is not sold).
After the 1 hour ride, we went on a ship, sailing on the sea, planning to stop only two times: for snorkeling and fishing . If you hurry a little bit when you go on the ship, then you have a chance to catch a place up on the main deck and you could stay for the entire ride sun-bathing. On the ship, we also served the lunch which was pretty tasty, but I guess that happened because of the sea breeze.
After 4 hours we came back to El Gouna resort, from where they took us by boats to the same marina. From here we went by foot for 5 minutes until the bus we came and then we went back home, to our hotels in Hurghada.
