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Sharm el-Sheikh: the Red Sea in Egypt

ALalefollia ·3 photographs ·29 Jun 2008 – 6 Jul 2008 ·8 days
Where
Naama Bay, Sharm El Sheikh · sharm el sheik
When
29 Jun 2008 – 6 Jul 2008
8 days · trip of 2008
Who
alefollia alefollia · @alefollia · firenze
How
Travel diary
The story

I step off the plane and the dry wind is already caressing my skin; I know this land and I can't help coming back for every holiday of mine; I'm in Sharm: LAMIASHARM! this land so arid and so enchanting, this magical place with its nights full of colours and lights, scents and spicy smells, sounds and music, percussion and noise, carpets to lie on and which, stretching out your arms, it feels as if you could take one by one the stars above your head, to smoke narghile and drink tea and karkade... I find myself already in a new day, and here is the sea... a unique scene, a coral reef rich in fish of every species and colour, it feels like swimming in an aquarium: an unreal spectacle! my body basks in the sun while my skin turns more and more a golden hazelnut colour each day. On the beach there are boys selling excursions, each more beautiful than the last, each one worth doing.

This desert of pinkish sand that rises and dusts the horizon as the quads pass, while the sun quickly sets and with its sunset creates an even more three-dimensional effect on these rocky mountains that seem to chase you as you ride off on the motorbikes... and if at lunch, for convenience, we take advantage of the village's international cuisine, which is excellent by the way, in the evening, after a nice shower, you take a taxi to old Sharm, where there are local restaurants to eat typical dishes... the Egyptian food is excellent: this very tender meat that melts in your mouth, Arabic bread and many spicy sauces accompany every course. There are places where you can also drink a good coffee... if you really can't do without something, better not to give up coffee! The emotions Sharm offers are many...

there wouldn't be enough space to describe all of it, so I can only invite you to go in person and with a bit of humility and without many demands try to adapt a little and let yourself be welcomed by this land that hosts you, always remembering that we are not in Italy and that 'when in Rome, do as the Romans do'... so you'll live a holiday out of 'a thousand and one nights'...

The journey's photographs

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sand pyramidssadiki caffea thousand and one nights

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