Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Crowded Sharm ElSheikh 17-20.4.09


“Sharm ElSheikh” the great small village in Sinai where you used to spend your mornings by the beach enjoying nature, your evenings on a motorcycle in the open desert and your nights in Pubs dancing till the morning.
I think this last trip was my last one ever, It is the third time for me to say so and in sha2 Allah it will be the final. It has nothing to do with the Egyptians or the vacations period as people say; Sharm is getting bigger each day, the hotels are everywhere now and more than full, full of people from all over the world and many Lebanese people for the first time even more than Egyptians. I cannot deny this variety of people from different countries give the place a unique style of its own, but it has nothing to do with my vacation, my time to relax and enjoy nature and sun. It was totally against that, I had to wait for my place in the sun by the pool or on the beach, as I had to wait for my place even in my favourite restaurant. Each five minutes you can hear or see a passing aeroplane, as if we are in the middle of the world not in a resort made for resting, it became a small city full of resorts.
Normally crowded places are not made for me, you can always find me escaping into quite and peaceful places, calm resorts, silent towns but never going to spend my relaxing time in an overpopulated place waiting for my turn to come.
Whatever this place’s nature or mood or whatever the fun it brings to hearts.
Sharm used to be Neema Bay, the old market and the airport, now it has grown all the way long to the airport and even after the airport also all the way along the hills and bays around Sharm.
You can loose count of hotels and resorts from Thoma bay to Sharks bay to Om Elsid Hill, dozens of hotels and resorts, full of foreigners all year long and especially in occasions and local vacations where the number doubles with the Arabs and Egyptians.
All this hotels and resorts residents spend their mornings by their private pools or beachs, and then move to Neema to spend the evenings and nights, where all the restaurants, pubs, games, cafés and fun places are located.
Despite where you log you must visit Neema bay or the old market place once or twice a day, to eat, to drink, to get money or to spend money, to buy something or just to have a walk.
And so you can imagine how populated Neema bay has become all day long, so if you ever have a reservation in Neema bay and you think it is the best reservation in Sharm, you are delusional dear, you will loose all the fun with the crowds and the push over.
It is better now to reserve in a far away hotel not crowded with people to spend your mornings and evenings relaxing and enjoying nature and just visit Neema by night to enjoy the crowds in Pubs and restaurants and all along the boardwalk.
In the end, you can manage to get some fun out of it, for me I enjoyed being with my little family all day long but Egypt is full of other quite peaceful places better than Sharm to spend a relaxing funny and interesting vacation without getting bored of crowds.

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