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Hurghada is an Egyptian city and a tourist center on the Red Sea.
The Hurghada city was founded in the early 20th century, and since the 1980s has been continually enlarged by American, European and Arab investors to become the leading seashore resort on the Red Sea in Egypt. Holiday villages and hotels provide aquatic sport facilities for sailboarders, yachtsmen, scuba divers and snorkels.

Hurghada stretches for about 40 km along the seashore, and it does not reach far into the surrounding egyptian desert. The resort is a destination for package holiday tourists from Europe, notably Russians, Czechs and Germans. Until a few years ago it was a small fishing village.
Today Hurghada counts 40,000 inhabitants and is divided into three parts:
- Downtown (El Dahar) is the old part of Hurghada
- Sekalla is the modern part of Hurghada
- El Korra Road is the most modern part of Hurghada
Sakkala is the relatively modest hotel quarter. Dahar is where the town's largest bazaar, the post office and the long-distance bus station are situated. Many restaurants, bars and shops, small pubs and internet cafes are available all over Hurghada.
The Hurghada city is served by the Hurghada International Airport with scheduled passenger traffic to and from Cairo and direct connections with several cities in Europe.

Hurghada is known as a party town of Egypt, and with its many clubs, life could be said to begin there at night. Nearly every hotel in Hurghada has its own discotheque; the most famous ones at the moment are "Calypso" and "Papas Beach”. Renowned for belly dancing, Arabic and Nubian folklore, is "Alf Leila Wa Leila" ("One thousand and one nights"). It is a big open-air area, which offers a bit of everything.
Hurghada has become an international center for aquatic sports like windsurfing, sailing, deep-sea fishing, swimming, and above all snorkeling and diving. The underwater gardens offshore are considered some of the finest in the world, justifiably famous amongst divers. The warm waters in Hurghada are ideal for many varieties of rare fish and coral reefs, which may also be observed through glass bottom boats.
The Hurghada city provides a gateway to diving sites throughout the Red Sea. Its central location provides access to dive sites. In addition, Hurghada is known for providing access to many uninhabited offshore reefs and islands.
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