Safaga

Safaga

53 kilometers south of Hurghada, stands Safaga, an ancient marine port that is renowned for its unpolluted atmosphere, black sand dunes and mineral springs. Safaga is considered Egypt’s primary phosphate export center and vital marine port. It’s also an exceptionally important therapeutic destination, offering its visitors an extraordinary potential of curing psoriasis, rheumatoid, arthritis, mild neck and back aliment, and improving blood circulation. It also has an enormous effect for skin treatment and beautification purposes.

Safaga’s pure beaches and stiff breezes make it an outstanding spot for diving holidays . In spite of being an eminent diving and snorkeling site, Safaga is more renowned for kite and wind surfing which made it the ideal setting for the 1993 World Windsurfing Championship.

It also makes a perfect base for sightseeing, with the desert  to the west holding as many treasures on dry land as the Red Sea holds beneath the surface to the east.

Day trips by speed boats to the Fire Wall , Forbidden Reef , and the ferry wreck  of Arish El Tor can be coordinated with local guides. Furthermore, trips could be arranged to the famous Tobia Islands , Panorama of Abu Qitan  towering reefs, and the legendary Mons Claudianus , the ruins of a Roman Settlement dating back to 68 A.D where granite buildings rocks from surrounding mountains were used for the sole purpose of beautifying Imperial Rome.

Beaches & Water Sports In Safaga
Beaches in Safaga are pristine and beautiful. Most Safaga hotels usually have their own private beaches exclusively available to hotel guests.   Hotels and resorts in Safaga offer a large choice of relaxed watersports and sea related activities from snorkelling excursions to pedal boats, canoeing, and catamarans.
Wind Surfing.
 
Safaga hosted the 1993 Red Sea World Windsurfing Championships and is picking up a great reputation for wind and kite surfing.  The winds in the Red Sea are created by the difference in temperature between the land and the water and Safaga benefits from a generally flat coastline without fringing reefs that create perfect conditions.


Ancient Egypt of Safaga
Safaga is a good base for sightseeing in the hinterland. Luxor is easily accessible. It is often referred to as the largest open-air museum in the world because, thanks to the number of well-preserved ancient monuments in the city and its surroundings, Luxor is close enough that a day trip is worth it. Built on the ruins of the ancient city of Thebes, the city of Luxor lies on the east bank of the Nile, with Karnak just to the north and Thebes on the west bank. It is essential for any stay in Egypt to see the temple of Luxor built by Amenophis III and the temple of Karnak. Luxor is also close to the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens.
Mons Claudianus is one of the best preserved sites of Roman civilization in Egypt. Penal colony and Roman quarry, stones worked by prisoners served as building materials for the Roman Empire. The shiny black stones of Mons Claudianus can still be seen in Hadrian's Villa, in the portico of the Pantheon, in the public baths, and in the columns and floor of the Temple of Venus in Rome.

Mons Claudianus
This vast Roman site and important landmark is named after Mons Claudianus, who was once a supplier of gray granite to the Roman Empire. A thousand Roman quarrymen and soldiers were stationed in this part of Hurghada for more than two centuries. Superb objects can still be seen today in the Pantheon, in Hadrian's Villa and in the unfinished Temple of Venus. Other curiosities include the fortress, dwellings, workshops, stables, baths, columns and broken granite slabs.