Addresses

A shallow lagoon at the end of a track, where the sea becomes a turquoise pool.

SinaiNorth of Dahab, South Sinai

A temple of Hathor perched at 800 metres, at the end of a two-hour climb.

SinaiSouth Sinai

A white sand beach and clear water, with not a hotel on the horizon.

Marsa Alam & the Red SeaSouth of Marsa Alam

Four reefs in a row across the strait, and one of the country's finest boat days.

Sharm el-SheikhOff Sharm el-Sheikh

A shallow lagoon and wind every day: the kitesurf spot closest to Cairo.

SinaiRas Sudr, North Sinai

A hot spring in the middle of the dunes, and a salt lake a few hundred metres away.

Marsa Matrouh and SiwaSiwa

Hills capped with dark basalt, on the road to the White Desert.

The oases and the Western DesertBahariya

Wooden huts by the reef, hours from the nearest hotel.

Marsa Alam & the Red SeaMarsa Alam and Hamata

A Nubian village on a lake island, almost without visitors.

AswanSouth of the dam, Aswan

A windsurfing port and a black-sand beach reputed to be therapeutic.

HurghadaSafaga

An eighteen-metre skeleton of a legged whale, in a museum buried in the desert.

FayoumWadi el-Hitan, Fayoum

A day in the pool on the Montazah Corniche, no room booked, for the price of a lunch.

AlexandriaMontazah, on the Corniche, opposite the park gate

A real pool facing the lagoon, with a separate basin for small children — but you get in by taking a room.

Marsa Matrouh and SiwaCleopatra Beach, on the El Gharam lagoon

The only pool in El Gouna whose day access the hotel itself puts in writing — and the hotel is adults only.

HurghadaEl Gouna

Hurghada's best-documented day pass: pool, beach, lunch and soft drinks included — at a price dating from 2024.

HurghadaSouth Hurghada, on the seafront

The only pool in town that belongs to no hotel — and whose price nobody publishes.

HurghadaHurghada Marina (New Marina), through the main gate