Nuweiba - Red Sea

Let’s first make a point on the geographical situation of this place crossing the Red Sea.

Nuweiba is a coastal town in the eastern part of Sinai Peninsula, sandwiched between the Sinai Mountains and the Gulf of Aqaba. It is located some 150 km north of Sharm El Sheikh, 465 km southeast from Cairo and 70 km  south of the Israel-Egypt border separating Taba and Eilat.

It is easy to go in Nuweiba, for example with the East Delta Travel company (in bus) from Cairo or with mini bus from Alex. It is approximately 7 hours to go over there.

You can find over there a lot of moderns hostels, but what we preferred to do is sitting on a camp (there are a lot of camp) just next to the Red Sea. Far from the luxury of moderns’ hostel we found a camp, where we were slept in sweeties hut. 

We went there in October, and there were not so much people. There are mainly Israeli and foreigner’s people, crossing to border to spent time in the Red Sea. But it remains a typically quiet place, far from the touristic place in Egypt. It is the best place if you are looking for calmness and serenity.

All you can do there is snorkeling on the Red Sea, reading a good book in front of the sea with an amazing cup of tea, and having nice time the night around a camp fire with music by meeting foreigners. If I could get an advice, it is not a place where you stay 1 complete week, but 3 or 4 days, to take a rest. 

One thing you can also do to move from your camp is going in “Castel Zaman”: maybe ten minutes from the camp by having a taxi. This is an amazing place you have to see if you plan to go in Nuweiba, because of the famous landscape at the top of the castle. You can find over there a lot of foreigners. You can just spend an afternoon there; they are not offering hostels facilities. But believe me it worth!

                                       The camp...

                                        Castle Zaman...