These photographs were taken
in and around the Red Sea Riviera resort of Sharm el Sheikh in
2005.
This is an area essentially 'man-made', created for
tourism at the edge of the Sinai Desert. It was hot, slightly
exotic, and the people very welcoming.
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On and around the Red Sea shoreline
Beaches have been created for visitors, with wide expanses of
sand against the deep blue of the red Sea
The Red Sea Riviera has been 'created' along part of the
shore of the Sinai Desert. The desert stretches for hundreds of
miles, barren and unattractive as a place to stay too long
St Catherine's Monastery is more than 200km into the desert
from Sharm, said to be the second oldest monastery in the
world
