Sharm El-Sheikh city of charm and beauty (pictures and information)

Once the falling autumn leaves, signaling that winter beats the doors, even the eyes of the Egyptians, especially a fan of travel and leisure, to Sharm El-Sheikh, is a tourist resort par excellence autumn and winter.

Fsharm Sheikh, described as one of the enthusiasts, «Asforh chapters», quiet Tandhank a smile, and opens her arms to you with love and childhood, rarely found in other resorts. It is rare to find a city like it gives you more than you take. I even on the beaches almost compassionate roof of the sky yesterday.

In contrast to the cities and tourist resorts Egyptian ease the movement once the summer, at this time begins the city of Sharm el-Sheikh (about 600 km east of Cairo), overlooking the Red Sea coast, the ritual of its tourist season favorite, because of its weather warm and sunny throughout the autumn and winter and spring , unlike the summers, which is very hot.

Sharm El Sheikh Resort Egypt

And visitors can Sharm el-Sheikh to spend a good time will not forget the beaches, turquoise and picturesque safari and dinner, Bedouin, and to ensure in restaurants and cafes Naama Bay which is the main area in Sharm el-Sheikh, the cruise will remain the most prominent among all the activities that can be carried out in Sharm El-Sheikh , as it combines fun and enjoy the weather between the arms of nature picturesque mountains and clear blue sea and a lot of water sports can be fun to do.

Will find visitor Sharm el-Sheikh is any difficulty in booking a place on a cruise, going to the Ras Mohammed or Tiran Island or Dahab, Hurghada, enough to walk in the Gulf of grace to find dozens of representatives of tourism companies offer you the command, and at competitive prices vary depending on the level of service in the yacht Siklk or where it is going, as you can book the same journey from the hotel, which will assess it. The price of the trip per person from 300 to 500 pounds. (U.S. dollar equals 5.77 pounds roughly) sea voyage begins at eight in the morning from the marina, located in Sharm El Marina, since you'll be surprised when you arrive with hundreds of yachts that will be reduced thousands of visitors to different places each with a crew to prepare everything related to the journey of food and drink enough today all, diving equipment and other sports such as «Alsnorkelnj» (swimming on the surface of the water with the wearing of a breathing tube to watch the colorful fish and coral reefs) and means, including first aid medication for seasickness or the common cold.

And starts moving the yacht from the marina as soon as the processing of traveling through water at its destination, which is either «Ras Mohammed» or «Tiran Island» often, and be lucky if you see dolphins, sharks are swimming around in the water.

And stop the yacht three times to provide an opportunity for passengers to practice what they want of water sports, and solve the first station to stop after an hour of its launch, it come down from the wills of the sport «Alsnorkelnj» with a professional coach, taking the yacht cycle for 15 minutes before returning to recover from the left in the water, we heard then again for another hour, stops after a second lunch, which is prepared on the surface of the yacht, which consists mostly of fish and grill delicious pasta, and then come down to who wants to water for exercise «Alsnorkelnj» or diving or swimming, the Although the water depth exceeds 18 meters.

During the exercise of these sports will enjoy watching different kinds of fish swim in swarms consistent quietly beside you, and you can enjoy coral reefs, which prohibits the mere touch, and the facilities manager for the group members define the types of fish and coral reefs.

And those trips are usually accompanied by a professional photographer his photographs and video over the yacht and an underwater camera equipped for that purpose, and you get your photos and CD-ROM (CD) by video recording in the terminal at the end of the journey.

After lunch return the yacht collect the passengers to re-launch to a point to stop the third, about half an hour for a place to stop the second, in order to re passengers ball, but it's different this time is near the stopping point of the beach area (Lighthouse), which abound with tourist villages, which You can even swim beaches and enjoy the services provided by, and famous «Aljlas Pot», a compound with the bottom of the glass lets you see the world under the sea is nice, and buy souvenirs that you want them.

On the return trip, which begins in about the fifth night, the crew of the yacht is keen to return from the road by going shorter, taking into account the state of fatigue, which is the passenger after the tiring journey, which began in the early morning.

According to Majid Abdullah, coach of a diving work in the cruise in Sharm El-Sheikh since 9 years: «After she graduated at the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, I did my military service and was in the units of lightning in the Egyptian army, and thus has been training on the diving, so I thought to exploit what I learned in new work, then I brought to Sharm El Sheikh ».

He adds: «Most of those who do these trips are foreigners, many of whom prefer the experience of diving, even once, so on every trip I explain the principles of diving for passengers, and be sure to test all equipment before going down to the water».

He explains that the Egyptians in the number of those flights is a little bit and tend to be recently married couples and honeymooners in Sharm el-Sheikh.

The Sofrona Robert, the Irish came with her husband and her children on holiday in Sharm el-Sheikh, says: «I have visited many countries for tourism and holidays, but I did not find such a scenic but in Sharm el-Sheikh .. It's a piece of paradise ».

Sofrona adds: «I have enjoyed the sport of diving, and I saw the world under the water, and the weather was great compared to my country, which left her in a pool in the winter».

Her husband Andrew was impressed by the food, the Egyptian who presented to the yacht, says: «water sports which we practiced today was fantastic, as well as taking pictures underwater was something interesting».

The world peace and her husband, Adham Ibrahim couple Egyptians vacationing honeymoon in Sharm el-Sheikh, has impressed many flight campaign on for the first time, Ahmad said: «I never imagined that in my physical spaces so good, I feel ashamed because it is the first time that I visit Sharm Sheikh, I am such a trip », and his wife, minimum, says:« Although I am not practicing water sports in the trip, just sit on the surface of the yacht in this wonderful weather and hopes scenic, especially the clear water hugging the mountains on the beach

Read more »

Posted in: Tourism in Egypt

Alexandria Park Waterfalls

Alexandria Park Waterfalls

Cascades Gardens is a large garden located in the city of Alexandria in Egypt, located neighborhood Alatyna finest neighborhoods east of Alexandria near the door and operates an area of ​​8 acres and is characterized by the stands of different heights and with artificial lakes and waterfalls water industry.

Announced the transfer to the garden and cultural center of this garden was divided into 5 regions bearing the names of a number of flags of art and culture in Alexandria, Sayed Darwish, are Tunisian and Perm Izz al-Din 

Yusuf Issa Ahmed Othman, a sword and Wanli.

Read more »

Posted in: Tourism in Egypt

Komelshkafah cemetery in Alexandria

Komelshkafah cemetery in Alexandria

Cemetery Komelshkafah:

Address: symbols

Dates: from 9 am to 5 p.m.

Phone: 4865800

Dates graves Komelshkafah to the second century AD a cemetery Roman and the cemetery are carved in the rock underground, a unique and feature inscriptions outstanding, one of the most important tombs of Alexandria is unique in terms of design and patterns in which the blending of Egyptian Art Greco-Roman art and named after to "Cagaf", a broken pottery, which formed something like a hill "Kom" The reason the old Romanian custom which prevailed.

Is the largest cemeteries ROMANIAN general found in Alexandria is located on the border of West Alexandria cowardly old and due to the second century AD.

This cemetery is located Komelshkafah archaeological area in the neighborhood of symbols and the Muslim cemetery behind the current .. This area is part of the ancient city of Alexandria.

Komelshkafah and the name is the name given to the Arab region, the revival of the ancient Greek name .. Located Komelshkafah in the region by the village Racotiis .. A name that is known by the Romans in the revival of the old name of the Pharaonic Village, a Ra - held

I discovered this cemetery (the cemetery) by accident in 1892 .. It was finally disclosed in 1900.

This cemetery dates back to the late first century AD and until the fourth century AD .. The most important buildings, a cemetery, the main due to some mid-second century AD.

The cemetery Komelshkafah .. Is a kind of kata Combe graves that were deployed in the first three centuries, Christmas in Italy and some Greek islands.

Aalkata Combe was limited to the burial of Christians who were suffering persecution from the Roman to them .. These graves were dug under the ground in the form of streets extended for miles long lined graves on both sides .. The kata Combe burrow rapidly and in secret for fear of the rulers.

For the cemetery Komelshkafah there was no impact of Christian and one indicates that the early Christians had used the day of days .. It is cowardly and fold since its inception in the late first century AD that the use of the hero was buried in the fourth century AD.

This arose in the cemetery - in contrast to what is happening in Italy - to the family cemetery and the only one of the rich families who lived in Alexandria .. And then later used to bury many of the families.

Tend to the cemetery Komelshkafah combination of technocracy Pharaonic and Roman .. Unlike their counterparts in Italy, which characterized Greco-Roman art, Christian .. Did not mix with the Pharaonic and Roman art in the cemetery Komelshkafah in architecture, but also in the carved statues.

Komelshkafah cemetery stretches for some thing under ground .. It is unique for this type of cemeteries in that it descends to a depth of three-storey underground .. And probably came under the influence of pharaonic tombs in the cemetery where the cemetery was a good disparaged for very long distances.

The cemetery and dug at a depth of three-storey underground .. Designed to be made ropes from the body with a light Muscat holes in the walls .. And surrounded by a spiral staircase to the lowest floor cemetery .. When the body was up to the floor Strkd afford to be revived in the last .. And the spiral staircase between the conductive surface of the ground and first floor.

In terms of these cowardly advantages gained from the Roman art also appears in the peace sculpture and decoration in some parts of architecture.

And the cemetery (the cemetery) is divided into:

- Drilling Palmckawat and called this the most common .. The niche is a hole in the wall carved in the rock rectangular horizontal and deep hole closed square chip of limestone or marble .. Often written in red on the door of this stone the name of the deceased.

- The coffin .. It was usually etched into the rock .. Some of these coffins is divided into sections to put more than bodies.

- Four ordinary graves on the second floor behind the main cemetery .. It is like a Muslim cemeteries .. It is a room there is a hole in its roof, which passed the bodies .. Every hole has been used to bury the bodies of many of the poor.

- Tractor (the collection jar) for keeping the ashes of burnt bodies after .. Pottery, one of .. It is a vase holding three workshops was the cover of most of the pottery.

For the convenience of rising from the bottom of the cemetery to the top (after the burial) opened in the first round of peace like the slots near the mihrab .. And each seat is semi-circular hole carved in the rock .. And has a ceiling decorated with carved shell in the rock .. Chance of decoration and embellishment of the Greek is the second century AD and was the light of peace comes through the vents, which worked in the home by the light or rectangular openings were placed Msarj (lamps) are lit with oil of pottery .. Almsarj has been used to illuminate the rest of the cemetery .. The burning of incense in the early months, as well as in 9 and 13 days of each month, because these days the most important days of the month when the Romans.

There are first floor room in the tomb, adorned with a circular domed roof surmounted by a well refers to the Roman history .. The well has a small wall of stone and placed by the models of the plaster statues of marble found the bottom of the well .. And Greco-Roman Museum, located .. And opens to this room, rooms, and many graves.

There is room to eat on the left of the hole left of this cemetery .. It is like eating in the rooms of houses .. It contains three terraces carved into the rock, including a vacuum was filled by a wooden table .. The Romans gathered in this room, especially in the holy days are the days of violets and roses and days on the birthday of the deceased and Holiday paternity, which was officially held in February, while normally be held on the day of death of the deceased.

In the face of a room eating a hole there were not already exist in the cemetery but later opened to connect the hall after the great hall called the "Caracalla" .. Therefore it seems that this is independent of terminal dug cemetery and then came out later.

And a hall "Caracalla" found many bones of horses and the bones of young people, prompting some to think that they have linked the massacre of the Emperor "Caracalla" by retaliation from the youth of Alexandria, who insulted him .. and that was the 215 meters after them to the stadium (the stadium) .. They have been killed after the horses fled to the cemetery .. There is another opinion says that the bones of these horses for those horses that have won in sports competitions. . Having taken into a room goddess Nemesis (Nemesis) .. Which was sponsored sport.

There are four graves Karakla room painted in color .. Each tomb is a sarcophagus placed in a hole surrounded by squares and columns conjoined with stones.

And next to the peace that exists in the old hall and Mosul to the surface of the earth .. There is a well performer to a small burial chamber also .. There is next to the peace of the room or lounge Mcyprtan are drawn .. And right in front of the tomb glorified a mass grave dug floor .. In the photo on the left the cemetery walls Alilehtan one of Isis and Nephthys Basittin Ojnanhma and behind each machine, carrying a scepter crowned king .. On the side walls and a crowned king sitting on his throne.

On the first floor there are also other rooms of some of the buried coffins .. And the hole to put the bodies or ashes tractor .. The peace of the floor straight to the second floor where the main cemetery and the burial places of other ..

The peace of this roof dome decorated with a chance.

And the cemetery where the main lobby and the room of a funeral .. And the lobby and facade decoration topped Romanian Greek .. Followed by the bottom of the frieze of the Egyptian winged sun disk between the hawks .. The front door to the room of the funeral Vzachrvath pharaonic style .. With a frieze surmounted by a winged sun disk decorated by the head of a snake.

And on both sides of the door decoration is a hybrid between Pharaonic, Greek response to the evil away from the cemetery .. We find the decoration under the shield of the Greek goddess Athena and the head of Medusa, which was according to Greek mythology refer to the see the cornerstone of the dead .. And below the shield a snake sitting on a synagogue and wearing the crown of Upper and tribal .. And the right of the snake and the painted stick Hermes (Roman Mercury) .. Hermes is the messenger of the gods and guide the dead to the other world .. And on the left of the snake god Dionysus has a plant (Backus, Roman) The god of the dead, the snake staff is good and sacred to the god Osiris, god of the dead when the Pharaohs.

• The area comprises Komelshkafah Garajabana Kta Comp Index: -

• Cemetery Road Tigran:

And found when building one of the buildings in the area of ​​Cleopatra and was found in very bad condition and it was decided to rebuild the cemetery in the yard in the short Komelshkafah with the installation of the plaster layer which covers the conduct of the burial chamber on the walls of the room.

• Mcyprhsilvajo:

Silvajo attributed to the Greek nationality, who owned the land that was found on the cemetery, and to save the cemetery was moved and rebuilt in the Komelshkafah.

 • Cemetery Wardian:

Likely to be due to the year 300 BC. M and is part of the Wardian graves cemetery was moved to the area Komelshkafah to save the cemetery

Komelshkafah cemetery in Alexandria

.

Read more »

Posted in: Tourism in Egypt

Column of Pompey's most famous landmarks in Alexandria

The column masts of the most famous monuments in Alexandria. Built on a hill between the door of Sidra Muslim cemetery known as the current landfill and the column between the plateau com Alhqavp archaeological. And a length of about 27 meters and made ​​of red granite stone. Was held in honor of the Emperor Diocletian in the third century AD. Which is the last remaining relics of the temple Serapeum established by Bustumus. [1] and is considered the highest monument in the world. [2] is not specified, the date of establishment of this column to be precise, but back to the Roman era, and was told that this column dedicate to Christianity after its victory in Alexandria.

Label

And return the column label as a column Pompey to the Arab age where it is believed that it was the result of the height of the column towering 400 to another column, which looks like masts of ships and so-called Arabs column masts, which misrepresented later to the masts. [3] has defined a column Pompey error since the war crusade on behalf of the column of Pompey (in English: Pompey's pillar) and because of this error is that the Europeans thought that the head of the Roman general Pompey, who fled to Egypt to escape from Julius Caesar and killed the Egyptians thought that his head had been placed in a jar funeral precious and placed over the crown of the column [3].

Design

The body of the column is a one-piece diameter of 2.70 meters at the base, and 2.30 meters at the crown. The overall height of the column including the base of about 26.85 meters. [3] On the west side of the column bases can access them peace under the ground and there are two statues are similar to the Sphinx are made of rose granite dating back to the era of Ptolemy VI. [2], one inscription of King Horemheb of the Eighteenth Dynasty

.

Read more »

Posted in: Tourism in Egypt

Alexandria The Citadel of Qaitbay - Mamluk period

The Citadel of Qaitbay (or the Fort of Qaitbay) (Arabic: ‎) is a 15th century defensive fortress located on the Mediterranean sea coast, built upon/from the ruins of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt. It was established in 1477 AD by Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa'it Bay.

This castle is located at the end of the most western island of Pharos in Alexandria. And constructed in place of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria which was destroyed 702 years after his devastating earthquake that happened in the reign of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad. Began Sultan al-Ashraf Abu Al-Nasr Bey build this castle in the year 882 and ended his years of building 884. The reason for his interest in Alexandria, the large number of direct threats to Egypt by the Ottoman Empire, which threatened the entire Arab region.

Description of the Castle

It takes the form of the castle square box of 150 m * 130 m, surrounded by sea on three sides. It contains the castle walls and the main tower. Divided by fences to fence internal and external. Valsor internal personnel includes barracks and arms depots. The outer wall of the castle fitted in the bodies of the four defensive towers to rise to the level of the wall with the exception of the eastern wall light, includes the openings of the defensive troops.

And take the main tower in the inner courtyard a fortress large square along the Dilaha 30 meters and a height of 17 meters and consists castle of three storeys and are in the corners of the tower of the four towers, semi-circular ends of the highest balcony prominent include openings to throw darts at two levels and occupy the first floor of a mosque castle, which consists of a nave and four iwans defensive and corridors allow soldiers to easily pass through the defense of the castle. and it was the minaret of the mosque, but it broke down recently.

Interface Bey Citadel

Internal ceiling in the castle Qaitbaatqa the castle at the end of the island of Pharos maximum west of Alexandria. And constructed in place of the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria which was destroyed 702 years after his devastating earthquake that happened in the reign of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad. Began Sultan al-Ashraf Abu Al-Nasr Bey build this castle in the year 882 and ended his years of building 884. The reason for his interest in Alexandria, the large number of direct threats to Egypt by the Ottoman Empire, which threatened the entire Arab region.

Description of the Castle

It takes the form of the castle square box of 150 m * 130 m, surrounded by sea on three sides. It contains the castle walls and the main tower. Divided by fences to fence internal and external. Valsor internal personnel includes barracks and arms depots. The outer wall of the castle fitted in the bodies of the four defensive towers to rise to the level of the wall with the exception of the eastern wall light, includes the openings of the defensive troops.

And take the main tower in the inner courtyard a fortress large square along the Dilaha 30 meters and a height of 17 meters and consists castle of three storeys and are in the corners of the tower of the four towers, semi-circular ends of the highest balcony prominent include openings to throw darts at two levels and occupy the first floor of a mosque castle, which consists of a nave and four iwans defensive and corridors allow soldiers to easily pass through the defense of the castle. and it was the minaret of the mosque, but it broke down recently.

The second floor contains the corridors and halls and rooms of the Interior. The third floor houses a large room (seat Sultan Qaat Bay) sit to see the ships on the day's journey from Alexandria covered cellar cross as there is in the oven floor to prepare the land, bread made from wheat and a mill to grind grain for the soldiers living in the castle. The new Sultan Ghori Qansuh increased the castle and its garrison of this castle has been neglected in the Ottoman occupation of Egypt. Citadel established the fortress of Sultan Malik al-Ashraf Abu Al-Nasr Bey Mahmoudi year 882 AH / 1477 Place of Mannar Alexandria old at the eastern end of the island of Pharos in the late Mamluk state, which is about building a separate length of 60 meters, and width 50 meters, and the thickness of walls 4.5 meters.

This was Al-Manar had been destroyed after an earthquake in 702 AH the days of King al-Nasir Muhammad, which is restored by destroying it after that after several years until destroyed all its parts the year 777 AH / 1375 AD.

When he visited the Sultan Bey in Alexandria year 882 AH / 1477 AD went to the site of the old and the Al-Manar is to build on the basis of the old tower, later known as Castle or Fortress of Bey of construction was completed after two years from the date of construction.

Because Bey Citadel in Alexandria is one of the most important fortresses on the coast of the Mediterranean was concerned with the sultans and the rulers of Egypt over the historical times in the Mamluk era, we find the Sultan Qansuh Ghouri interested in this castle considerable attention and increased the strength of its garrison and shipment of weapons and gear, and to open Ottoman Egypt used the castle place to protect them and took care to preserve and made by groups of soldiers infantry, cavalry and artillery, and the various garrisons to defend them and then defending the gate of Egypt's northern coast and the weakened Ottoman Empire began the castle lost its strategic importance and defensive as a result of the weakness of its garrison, it is then able to the French campaign on Egypt led by Napoleon Bonaparte seized and the city of Alexandria in 1798, which led to the seizure, which took over the rest of Egypt, to take over Mohammed Ali Pasha ruled Egypt and worked to fortify Egypt and especially its coast north stood the renewal of the walls of the castle and add some business out of the suit and the development of defense of the nineteenth century AD, was to strengthen walls and the renewal of buildings and providing coastal guns in addition to building many Ataiwabi and forts that were deployed along the northern coast of Egypt. Since the revolution, Ahmed Orabi in 1882, which was the results hit the city of Alexandria on July 11 in 1882 and then the British occupation of Egypt was vandalized Bey Citadel and cause cracks it, has been a castle on this case until the Commission for the Conservation Archaeology Arabic in 1904 the work of many of the reforms, and undertake a project to work with renewals based on studies carried out by scientists of the French campaign and published a book in the Description of Egypt, and also by the travelers Cassius in his book The Year 1799.

General architectural planning of the castle

Built Bey Citadel on an area of ​​17,550 square meters was built on this area of ​​the walls of the castle of Foreign Affairs and Astgamatha war which is a series of walls built to further fortify the castle and the walls, a Sorin great of huge stones that surround the castle from the outside and the inside has been prepared to protect the castle, Valsor first is the outer wall and the castle is surrounded on all four sides Valdila east of the wall overlooking the sea and a width of two meters and a height of eight meters and is peppered any towers The western side is a fence a large thickness is greater than the rest of the walls of the castle peppered with three round towers and the longer the wall the oldest remaining parts , while the southern side it overlooks the port of East and peppered with three round towers and strikethrough the door, while the northern side Fatal directly on the sea and is divided into two parts the lower part of it is a corridor large tiled built over the rock directly by several rooms of the upper part is a corridor with openings narrow overlooking the sea The walls of Interior has shown a stone and surrounded the tower master of all his part, except the north and permeates the wall inside of a group of rooms adjacent prepared a barracks for the soldiers and are free of any openings other than door openings and openings Mzagl allocated to be openings for ventilation of the hand and Kfathat to defend on the other. The main tower of the castle, it is the district north-western area of ​​the castle and the main tower of the castle is a building of three floors will be planning out a square from each corner of the four pillars round tower rising from the surface of the main tower was built with limestone tower hard

Read more »

Posted in: Tourism in Egypt