Hotels in the city of Sharm El Sheikh

Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport , formerly Ophira International Airport, is an international airport located in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Opened on May 14, 1968, the airport was originally an Israeli Air Force base and also served the small settlement of Ofira. On May 23rd 2007, the airport's second terminal was inaugurated with a capacity for 8 million passengers per year (...)

, in Janub Sina', Egypt, on the coastal strip between the Red Sea and Mount Sinai. Sharm el-Sheikh is the administrative hub of Egypt's Southern Sinai province which includes the smaller coastal towns of Dahab and Nuweiba as well as the mountainous interior, Saint Catherine's Monastery and Mount Sinai (...)

: مضيق تيران ), are the narrow sea passages, about 13 km (8 miles) wide, between the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas which separates the Gulf of Aqaba from the Red Sea. It is named after Tiran Island located at its inflow, on which the Multinational Force and Observers has an observation post to monitor the compliance of Egypt in maintaining freedom of navigation of the straits as provided under (...)

at the entrance of the Straits of Tiran, which separates the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. The island is leased to Egypt, to support the presence of an observation post controlled by the Multinational Force and Observers and an Egyptian Coastal Patrol post. It is of strategic significance in the area, as it forms the narrowest section of the Straits of Tiran, which is an important sea (...)

The SS ''Thistlegorm'' was a British armed Merchant Navy ship built in 1940 by Joseph Thompson & Son in Sunderland, England. She was sunk on 5 October 1941 near Ras Muhammad in the Red Sea and is now a well known dive site. (...)

n island in the Straits of Tiran east of Tiran (...)

The SS ''Carnatic'' is a famous shipwreck, a steamer ship that was on the Suez/Bombay run in the last years before the Suez Canal was opened. The ''Carnatic'' was a P&O steamship, built by Samuda Brothers at Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs, London in 1862. In September 1869 she ran aground on Sha`b Abu Nuhas coral reef near Shadwan Island in the Red Sea (...)

Sha`b Abū Nuħās is a coral reef northwest of Shadwan Island in the northern Red Sea. It is a navigation hazard because it projects into the shipping channel, as evidenced by the (at least) 7 shipwrecks on it. It is popular with scuba divers. Its name is Arabic for "reef of father of copper", after the cargo of one of the wrecks (...)

LORAN-C transmitter Ash Shayk is the Yankee secondary of the Saudi Arabia South LORAN-C Chain ( GRI 7030) and the Yankee secondary of the Saudi Arabia North LORAN-C Chain ( GRI 8830 ). It uses for both chains a transmission power of 1000 kW. LORAN-C transmitter Ash Shayk is situated near Ash Shayk at (...)

. Dahab (دهب) is a small town situated on the southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. Formerly a Bedouin fishing village, located approximately 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab is still considered to be one of the Sinai's most treasured diving destinations (...)