Red Sea Coast - Marsa Alam

Shuttle bus for the Red Sea Diving Safari from Hurghada to Marsa Alam	Mountains on the Red Sea coast near Safaga	Road sign to Al Qusayr and Marsa Alam	Villa on the Red Sea coast
El Hamrawein, the El Nasr Mining company town	Rustic Ecolodge Rocky Valley Camp on a bluff north of El Qusayr	Mövenpick El Qusayr	Mövenpick El Qusayr
El Qusayr was the only interesting looking town we passed between Hurghada and Marsa Alam	Monument in El Qusayr	Egypt Mubarak - Safety and Stability	Mosque El Qusayr
Mosque El Qusayr	El Qusayr (Al Queseir)	16th C Ottoman fort, El Qusayr (Quseir)	16th C Ottoman fort, El Qusayr
16th C Ottoman fort, El Qusayr	Our minivan made a brief stop in El Qusayr, but not long enough to visit the fort	El Qusayr	El Qusayr
Truckload of camels bound for Cairo, El Qusayr	Truckload of camels bound for Cairo, El Qusayr	Red Sea coastal highway south of Al Qusayr	Bluff along the highway
Getting closer to Marsa Alam	Red Sea coastal highway	Welcome to Marsa Alam	Red Sea Diving Safari
RedSeaJan06 352.JPG	Red Sea Diving Safari Shagra Village	Red Sea Diving Safari Shagra Village	Red Sea Diving Safari Shagra Village
RedSeaJan06 197.JPG	Red Sea Diving Safari Shagra Village	Red Sea Diving Safari Shagra Village	The Danish flag, Shagra Village
A pair of chalets at Shagra Village	Shagra Village	Shagra Village chalets	Shagra Village chalets - toilets and showers, but no A/C or TV
Shagra Village chalets - 45 euros per person per night (low season) full board	Shagra Village huts - no bathrooms	Shagra Village huts	Reception and Dive Centre, Shagra Village
Beachfront tented accomodation, Shargra Village	The dining tent, Shagra Village. Construction is underway for a more permanent facility	The Omelette Guy	Jetty, Shagra Village
Row of tents, Shagra Village	Shagra Village	Bungalows, Shagra Village	Cactus garden, Shagra Village
Cactus garden, Shagra Village	Hut, Shagra Village	Hut, Shagra Village	Huts, Shagra Village
Chalets, Shagra Village	Chalets, Shagra Village	Chalets, Shagra Village	Chalets, Shagra Village
Me at Red Sea Diving Safari camp	Each morning brought a surprise after the maid visited	Day 1 was a towel swan	Another surprise
The brick domed roof of our chalet	The brick domed roof of our chalet	Chalets, Shagra Village	Chalets, Shagra Village
Shagra Village	Shagra Village	Shagra Village	Shagra Village
Excursion in the back of a truck	Scenery around Marsa Alam	Expansion of Shagra Village's decompression treatment center	Marsa Alam has lots of new tourism projectgs
Debbie's savior - a nearby shop with Diet Coke	Another new tourism project, Marsa Alam	Mountains and desert near Marsa Alam	Red Sea coastal highway, Marsa Alam
Red Sea coastal highway, Marsa Alam	Red Sea coast, Marsa Alam	Marsa Alam's main town is tiny and uninteresting	Marsa Alam's gas station
Roy in the back of a truck	Roy looking happy	Debbie wondering what on earth she did to end up in the back of a truck in this god awful country	Excursion by truck to the Red Sea Diving Safari's Nakari Village, 18 km south of Marsa Alam
Marsa Alam	Marsa Alam	Marsa Alam	Marsa Alam
Beach at Nakari Village	Red Sea Diving Safari's Nakari Village	Red Sea Diving Safari's Nakari Village	Launch to the Big Boats
Dive boats for Dolphin House offshore	Nakari Village	Red Sea Diving Safari boat	Nakari Village
The truck	Homemade looking license plate 7454	Nakari Village	Nakari Village beach
Nakari Village	Nakari Village	Nakari Village	Egyptian "speed limits"
Red Sea Coastal Highway heading back to Marsa Alam	Near Marsa Alam	Red Sea near Marsa Alam	Near Marsa Alam
Red Sea Coastal Highway near Marsa Alam	Red Sea	Red Sea	In the back of the truck for the return to Shagra Village
Near Marsa Alam	The whole Egyptian coast is studded with military bunkers like this