Harbour promenade
Dining by the water.
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A modern resort town on the Red Sea north of Marsa Alam, built around a large yacht harbour close to Marsa Alam International Airport, and a starting point for many liveaboard dive boats and sea trips in the southern Red Sea. A broad paved promenade wraps around the harbour, lined with restaurants, cafés and shops in sand-coloured, Arab-style buildings with arches and windows, looking out over rows of yachts and sailing boats. The harbour's tall tower stands out above it all. Around the town are quiet beaches and small coves such as Coraya Bay, and coral reefs for snorkelling, with hotels at both ends of the harbour, so it suits anyone after calm by day and restaurants and cafés in the evening. Walking the promenade is free, and restaurant prices run above the Marsa Alam average. Boat trips to far reefs such as Elphinstone leave from here.
Dining by the water.
Where trips set out.
A quiet nearby beach.
Port Ghalib, about sixty kilometres north of Marsa Alam, near Marsa Alam airport
It suits an evening of dining and strolling or a start for dive trips, but it is a resort town without historic sights.