Outside Cairo, like here in the Hurghada [aka Hurgada], pastel concrete tourist life...

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...exists in a hygenic bubble of endless sunshine, comfortable seaside facilities and...

Hurghada resort beach, Egypt

...the warm waters of the Red Sea, while authentic desert Egyptian culture,...

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Bedouin near St Catherine's monastery, Sinai, Egypt

...is happening all around - the Bedouin are wacking surly camels, milking goats...

Bedouin camp, Sinai, Egypt

...keeping various wives happy and cheerfully pressing tea on to strangers...

Bedouin, Egypt

...who pass by their modest homes.

Pictures left side: Hurghada, a charmless west coast Red Sea resort town; a Hurghada beach resort on the Red Sea; inside a Bedouin tent in the Sinai desert. Right side: An upmarket beach resort near Hurghada, Red Sea; Bedouin camel jockeys near St Catherine's monastery, Sinai Peninsula; a Bedouin camp view.

A mere five hours direct flight from the UK, just about certain sunshine all day long, warmish waters, world-beating Red Sea coral and marine life coupled with modest prices, Sharm el Sheikh and other Red Sea resorts are now victims of their own success with the biggest problem being how to avoid being part of a milling, mooing herd from dawn to dusk.

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