We started off the day by eating Breakfast and getting ready to leave our hotel in Hurghada. Fortunately our next destination was Sharm el-Sheikh, which is only a 45 minute or so plane ride from Hurghada. So we left the hotel around 10:30am and drove to the airport which was pretty close by. Eventually we made it to Sharm El-Sheikh in 20 minutes! It was seriously the fastest plane ride imaginable.
We learned that Sharm el-Sheikh means “sector of the elder” in Arabic and that the city is very up and coming because it was all desert when it was under Israeli control about 40 years ago. I found that my first impression of the city was that it reminded me a lot of Aruba; very tourist-friendly and TONS of hotels (I have officially spotted Starbucks in Egypt!). Sharm el-Skeik is geographically part of the Sinai Peninsula, which is part of the continent of Asia (So I am officially in Asia for the first time ever! So cool!)
After about a 30-minute drive from the airport we arrived at our hotel, The Marriot Renaissance Sharm El Sheik, which we will be staying at for the next 3 nights. The hotel is very beautiful and we have a view of the Red Sea from our hotel room! Unfortunately there have been shark attacks in this area of the Red Sea so as of now we can’t go to the beach; we will likely be spending these days relaxing at the pool with our free wifi! Finally! My stomach started acting up again today as well so we’ll see how that turns out in the next day or so. Dinner was so great because there was a cheese station (yay!) and for the first time there were strawberries at the dessert bar! This was the clear favorite by everyone. Needless to say, I stuffed my face with chocolate covered strawberries and will be going to be very content this evening.
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