After the Nile Cruise, we spent a couple of days at the beach in Hurghada. Here we spent most of the time at the beach and just relaxed. This city is very easily reached as it has its own international airport. However we still managed to see several Red Sea specialties. Some of those could be easily seen just from the Hurghada beaches like Red Sea (Western) Reef Heron, White-eyed Gull and Striated Heron. We also spent one day snorkeling and for that we went out onto the Red Sea. During this trip we also saw some interesting birds including White-eyed, Sooty, Yellow-legged, Caspian and Armenian Gull, Lesser Crested Tern and Osprey.
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| Lesser Crested Tern (Thalasseus bengalensis) |
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| Red Sea Reef Egret (Egretta (gularis) schistacea) |
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| White-eyed Gull (Larus leucophtalma) |
For birders who keep a WP list, Hurghada as a very accessible place to see some Red Sea specialties without major difficulties. However besides that and the beaches there is very little of interest. I would not even recommend the snorkeling here as most of the coral is already dead.
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