This place is fantastic! The people are great, although they are very "pushy", they see English people as very rich and able to spend vast amounts of money (I wish). Therefore they tend to want to be your friend and help you spend some in their shops. Other than that they are great fun and very respectful.
The food is brilliant, a mixture of different cultures and influences as well as traditional. It's also very cheap.
Now people will tell you that they know someone who knew someone who went who got really bad food poisoning. take this with a pinch of salt as this is not the case at all.
Beer is good too which you may not expect from a Muslim country but I gave it a big thumbs up.
The weather is outrageous, even at night it's red hot. The breeze that blows at night feels like someone following you with a hot hairdryer!
The best thing for me though was people watching. Sitting in a nice Bedouin bar at the side of the main strip and watching life go by while smoking a Shisha pipe (apple flavour being the best). the Bedouin bars tend not to serve alcohol but specialise in the Shisha pipes.
Now everyone thinks your going to get severely stoned smoking these but, they are nothing more than a flavoured tobacco smoked over water to allow for a very mellow, fragrant and tasty smoking experience. They come in quite a few fruity flavours and really need tried to believed. For about £1 you get a huge pipe full that will last most people around 45 minutes to an hour.
The diving in Sharm-El-Shiekh (where we stayed) is also second only to the Great Barrier Reef (allegedly). Some of the fish you see are beautiful and it is an experience indeed. You can find excellent diving just out the back of most hotels along the coast due to them having huge expanses of coral on the beaches which plunge into deep azure waters only feet from the beach.
We loved Egypt so much were going again this year as our main family holiday. I can't wait to get back. Maybe this time I'll try a camel.
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