Hurghada

Hurghada City  is the capital of Red Sea Governorate  located on the western coast of the Red Sea, 500km south-east of Cairo, and was initially developed in 1909 by British engineers engaged in oil exploration. By the 1920s a primitive . small village was established, but development soon started to promote the town as a scuba-diving tourist destination  . Since the 1980s Hurghada has grown from a small fishing village to an internationally renowned resort town on the Red Sea Governorate  . It became an international center for aquatic sports like windsurfing, sailing, deep-sea fishing, swimming, and above all snorkeling and diving. The unique underwater gardens offshore are some of the finest in the world, justifiably famous amongst divers. Hurghada’s warm waters are ideal for many varieties of rare fish and coral reefs, which may also be observed through glass bottom boats.Hurghada is merging  the old with the new, and  boasts some of the finest hotel chains in Villages Road  and the tourist districts  around it like Sahel Hasheesh , or north of it