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Red Sea Watersports are second to none in Egypt

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

There are many reasons to choose Egypt as a luxury holiday destination.  For some, Egypt’s year- round sunshine proves the major attraction with well-developed resorts, great beaches and excellent hotels.Ancient Egypt’s antiquities with the magnificent temples at Karnak, Luxor and Edfu and the Pyramids of course prove the greatest draw for many other visitors. For a growing number of tourists though, it’s the clear blue waters of the Red Sea that proves the irresistible draw for snorkelling or scuba diving in the beautiful coral reefs lining the coast.

If your idea of a luxury holiday is scuba diving or snorkelling, Hurghada or Sharm El Sheikh are the places you should be!Hurghada Hotels cater for the single traveller, couples and families and are perfect for a relaxed beach holiday if that’s what you want or can be the ideal base for diving holidays in Egypt.  Those with a taste for luxury holidays are well catered for in Sharm el Sheikh hotels with a choice of sumptuous five-star resorts complete with private beaches and fantastic international cuisine.  Those on a tighter budget can base themselves in compact, family-friendly boutique-style three-star hotels that are intimate, welcoming and very human scale.

Hurghada’s warm Red Sea waters are ideal for the rare fish and coral reefs that make this place so popular with the diving community.   Most dive sites are suitable for all levels of diving ability, from outright novice to seasoned expert.Divers are rewarded with a rich and varied marine life that includes moray eels, turtles, grouper fish and blacktip sharks. The Bottlenose dolphin is particularly populous in Hurghada’s waters, and the chances of meeting pods on a dive are very good!And even if you are a non-diver, you can still enjoy the sights of the underwater world of the Red Sea by booking a trip on a small submarine where you can dive to a maximum depth of 22m with around 50 minutes of bottom time.

Egypt holidays to Hurghada can also take advantage of sports on, not just under, the water too! Hurghada is the top Red Sea destination for wind and kitesurfing and is rapidly gaining a great reputation as a wake-boarding destination too. Hurghada offers good, strong, winds throughout the year, sustained by the mountain ranges just behind the town and Giftun Island offshore. The coast is also fairly flat without fringing reefs, creating the perfect conditions for wind and kite surfing. Many Hurghada hotels also offer less extreme and more relaxed watersports from banana rides to snorkelling excursions, pedal boats, canoeing, catamarans, glass-bottom boats and parasailing.

If diving doesn’t float your boat so to speak, perhaps Nile Cruises past the ancient monuments and temples would be more suitable.

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Surely holiday travels are damaging the environment!

Friday, December 11th, 2009

There is growing concern about the environment, but how concerned are we really? People are burning fuel all across the world, and all we do is create more unique ways to help damage the planet. We take something like a boat and turn it into a cruise ship, we are no longer people that live for necessity we live for luxury.

So if we are that concerned about the environment, what will we be able to do about holidays? Are we just going to keep on having a go at the world, saying we need to do something about this, yet still jump on a jumbo jet for a holiday to the Caribbean? How can we just let talks about saving the world go on, and back everything that is said, and then take off to a luxury location via one of the most destructive of all transportation techniques, the Cruise ship.

However how can we be sure that the world is really in that much trouble? A lot of this is all speculation, backed up by only minor evidence. Although this evidence does have some backing, it is difficult to suggest an actual date at when the world will be irreversibly damaged. Are the holidays there for us? In truth, the damage being caused by flights isn’t in the great scheme of things all that bad, it is where fuel is being burnt in extreme amounts.

What the odds are on there being a ban on going on holiday are, I don’t know, but I would imagine it is something like one million to one. People won’t ever be stopped from enjoying themselves, because with everything else that we have to put up with, when the chance for a holiday comes around, we need to snap it up as quickly as we possibly can. Cruise ships however, they can be banned immediately in my eyes, these contraptions are pure evil, great for destroying the planet and spreading disease to kill people, as far as i am concerned get rid of them.

There could be a rush for holidays in the next decade, where would you go, Cuba holidays, Egypt holidays or Maldives holidays?

 

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Try Barbados this year for your vacation, visit one of the most historical countries in the Caribbean!

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

We can all go to Barbados to have a great time and enjoy the night life, but Barbados is much more than that. Barbados is home to a variety of people, a mixture between West African and British cultures are present here. 1627 was when the British first set up a colony of about 90 people most of which were slaves. When slavery was abolished in 1838 the lifestyle on the island greatly improved and when Barbados was made a fully independent island in 1966 the country rejoiced.

Because of the strong influence that Britain had on Barbados, the religion is very important. The most commonly supported is that of the Anglican Church, but there are many others ranging from Roman Catholic through to Hindu and Muslim. Not only do they have a wide range of religions they also have many festivals to celebrate them as well.

Music is the most expressive form of art that you will find in Barbados, it is very important to them. You cannot say they are not creative especially when they have created their own genre of music and its called Spouge. Jackie Opel was the man who created this music in the early 1960’s. If you want to know what Spouge exactly is, well you will need to listen to it, but basically it is a combination of Trinidadian calypso and Jamaican Ska. One of the most famous songs is called “You Send Me”. Barbados holidays have often been influenced by the music and some of the art galleries that are known around the world. There has been some debate about Barbados art galleries, but the general consensus is that they are unique and beautifully created. A lot of the art that has been created in Barbados is of very high value, and many people visit the art galleries on this island just to see all the varying kinds of art.

St Lucia holidays have even received a boost from all of Barbados tourism. There is a cruise available from one island to the other, and although both cultures are similar, it has been argued that although St Lucia is more beautiful, Barbados is the more diverse of the two.

Give these holidays a go, or try something else with history, culture and art, like Egypt holidays.

 

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Go on holiday in the past!

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Cuba is a must to visit, no matter what. This is one of the most amazing locations across the world. Many consider this large island in the Caribbean a Wonder of the world, frozen in time.

 

Cuba is stuck in the late 60’s, early 70’s. The oldest of the cars on this island are still being used today as well. Although we don’t know everything about this country, the holidays are becoming very popular. Cuba holidays offer many people all kinds of activities and new experiences. The bars and restaurants are unique and very friendly, and the flamenco dancing is original and good fun. Cuba is a place to go back in time and visit the world of yesterday. Arts and crafts are in utter abundance here, so if you like history and art then i recommend it. There is so much to see and do.

 

Now for the holiday maker who likes a bit of sea sun and sand, well you have come to the right place. You can be sure to get plenty of this on your Cuba holiday. The beaches are truly stunning, although most are owned by surrounding hotels. Some of the hotels are funny about people who don’t have a room their to visit their beaches, so make sure that you have a room at one of the beach hotels. The Accommodation in all of these hotels is an astonishing site to behold. You can find the rooms are well kept, the service is very good and the staff are lovely. I think a lot of people get the impression that Cuba is a volatile place; the simple truth is that because we don’t have much press coverage in over here, we are drawn into thinking of it in certain ways.

 

If you are considering a holiday this year then give Cuba a go, the only other holidays I would recommend are Egypt holidays, this is because they still maintain a very powerful and interesting history.

 

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BT offering staff some new and creative holiday ideas!

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

So if the company you worked for said “you can take a massive holiday but less pay” what would you do?

 

Well BT have come out and said that this is what they are going to be offering their employees. Basically if the employees want they are being given the chance to take a 25% stake of there annual wages and keep it for the rest of the year, but they wont receive any more, they will then have the rest of the year as time off. Another option that is really being pushed forward is to ask some employees to take a one thousand pound lump sum and then go part time for the rest of the year.

 

So what’s spurred this on? BT have just come out and said how much profit that they have lost this year, in-fact they have a lost a massive 1,3 billion pounds. It would appear that they think by cutting the costs of wages to their 100,000 employees that they could save a little bit of cash before getting into serious trouble.

 

So looking at this in a positive light, what do the employees get out of this? Some people will be able to spend time with the family. It is also voluntary, so employees don’t have to take any of the options up. This also means that some can embark on some very long trips or soul searching holidays. Relaxing St Lucia holidays or Egypt Holidays.

 

However there are problems with this as well, people wont be able to afford to go on any of these holidays. However people with children although may be able to spend more time with the family, they will find it hard to cope without the spending money. What are the main consequences that BT could be facing with this? Personally I believe that BT needs to find other ways of sorting out the business instead of letting its employees take the fall.

 

However if you are one of the lucky ones who can still afford Caribbean holidays, then you may as well enjoy the break.

 

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