Dad's Trip to Egypt - Part 2

Sharm el Sheikh is a resort town on the Red Sea, and my Dad went there after visiting Cairo. He said the two places couldn't be more different. Cairo was crowded, smoggy, and chaotic. Sharm el Sheikh was pristine and peaceful. Dad stayed in a resort that caters to Germans, Brits, Italians, and Russians. The resort staff told my Dad that he was the only American who had been there in a long time.

The resort had a private beach with umbrellas made of reeds, and "sun beds" (what we call lounge chairs). My Dad said that every day, people sat in the same sun beds on the same schedule and talked to the same people. By the third day, my Dad said he felt like he was living a scene from the movie Groundhog day.


My Dad claimed the water was even warmer than that in the Caribbean, and just as clean.


Even though the temperature was about 100 degrees Fahrenheit every day, some people used a set of 3 hot pools!


This is a picture taken from the resort's pier, looking back to one of the restaurants and some of the rooms.


From the pier, my Dad said you could simply look down into the water and see dozens of beautiful varieties of colorful fish. He swam over a small stingray, by some tiny jellyfish, and past some eels. He said it was the best snorkeling he's ever done.


This last picture is of the pool outside my Dad's room. He took the photo early in the morning, before the mob of people had staked out their usual places (just as people did down on the beach).