El Gouna
The gorgeous lagoon town amazes anyone with its charm and magic, its golf courses, marinas, watersports and upscale restaurants and hotels
★ El Gouna: Anyone seeing this amazing town falls in love with her
Born out of the dreams of a great enterpreneur, the beauty, romance and attractiveness of this incomparable town surpasses our wildest imagination. The smooth contours of its Nubian-style architecture together with the lush gardens carressed by the deep-blue lagoons and sea let you feel cozy as soon as you enter it. Wide spaces, wooden or stone bridges, and the numberless delightful cafés and restaurants with their open-air terrasses invite you to benefit from the year-round sunshine and the magical illumination during the warm evenings. But El Gouna offers much more; intimate luxury, a wide range of watersports, golf, horse riding, and endless entertainment for the whole family to enjoy special nights, as well as elite services including international schools, a hospital and a private airport.
★ "Downtown", the flattering center of El Gouna
Did you ever imagine a place where you immediately feel at home, with the heart-felt conviviality of a village, sprinkled with bushes, flowers and trees, the cozy environment of beautifully shaped low buildings, but offering all the services and entertainment your soul can desire? That's downtown El Gouna, with its club houses, Spas, a lagoon boat peer, restaurants, shops and fountains... Here you will forget whatever had bothered you.
★ Made for walks and relaxation
To be entirely inspired by the beauty of El Gouna, you have to enjoy strolling around on the enchanting walkways, passing the bridges over the channels, admiring the amazing Nubian-style low buildings and villas, the lush landscaping mixing palm trees, green bushes and trees and various flowers, the colorful shops with their exhibits of artful handicrafts, the creative cafes and restaurants, and the inviting shores of the lagoons or the sea...
★ Getting around in and outside El Gouna
Despite its reputation as an upscale location, you don't need a limousine to get around in El Gouna. In fact, automobile traffic is restricted. Walkways through the astounding architecture and landscaping let you admire the beauty of this town; however, you can also hire a bicycle, take a tuk-tuk taxi, or enjoy watching the fascinating shores with their villas on a lagoon boat trip. Small tourist buses, taxis and "Uber" cars operate regularly to Hurghada, to Hurghada international airport, and there are tourist coaches to Cairo. Although El Gouna has a private airport, it is mainly used by private jets. However, you can admire El Gouna from the air, with an ultralight motorized plane.
★ The three Marinas, with their sparkling luxury yarchts
Beautiful El Gouna, often called the "playground of millionnaires", wouldn't be complete without three astounding marinas where you can admire fascinating luxury yachts. Maintenance and repair services for visiting yachts and local excursion boats are also available. But you don't have to be a millionnaire to ejoy its sight, by day or with the romantic night illumination, or drink a coffee in one of the surrounding restaurants...
★ Amazing beaches and swimming pools
Beside the beaches of the many hotels and kite surfing clubs, the downtown clubhouse as well as the "Zeituna" island beach, where you can also have an elaborate juice, drink or meal, there are also many great swimming pools in El Gouna in which you and your family can enjoy swimming. Beach activities like beach volleyball, games, gymnastic and other activities are also offered.
★ Snorkeling and diving
El Gouna is gifted with several islands and coral reefs nearby, where numberless paradise-like marine gardens full of a huge variety of colorful fish and beautifully shaped colored corals delight any snorkeler and diver. Several diving clubs take you to the most magnificent sites, on pleasant yacht tours. You can even experience swimming with dolphins in the sea!
★ Kite surfing and catamaran tours, parasailing
If you like to play with the wind and the sea, you are at the right place in El Gouna... In several kite surfing clubs you can hire equipment or take an introductory course, or you can enjoy a tour on a catamaran sailing boat. You might also hire a kayak, windsurfing board, a kayak and other enjoyable marine equipment. And have fun in a wonderful setting...
★Have fun wakeboarding at the Sliders Cable Park!
El Gouna is always keen to let you enjoy this wonderful place under year-round sunshine. A unique "Sliders cable park" lets you discover or perfect your skills in wakeboarding or waterskiing, over a trajectory sprinkled with various ostacles on which you can slide or execute various types of fun jumps. You and your family can also enjoy a large inflated fun track, or eat and drink at the restaurant...
★ Enjoy a yacht, fishing or speedboat excursion, or admire the marvelous underwater world in a semi-submarine or a submarine ...
In El Gouna you enjoy the sea all year round... Amazing yachts offer snorkeling, diving, and inflatables fun tours.. Even if you don't like to swim, they can take you to marvelous islands, to sunset excursions, to dining tours, or on a sea fishing trip. How about a "pirates" or a birthday party on board? You can even admire the exceptional underwater paradise of the Red Sea in a semi-submarine or in one of the few tourism submarines in the World in nearby Hurghada... explore Red Sea activities!
★ Horse riding
Can you imagine riding on horseback to the shores of a lagoon or the sea? And enjoying the breathtaking views of this gorgeous town or a beautiful sunset marged into nature? Even without previous experience, you can fully enjoy this wonderful feeling in El Gouna. Ponys are also available for children.
★ Play golf and minigolf!
El Gouna has become a renowned destination for golfers. With its two 18-hole championship golf courses, set into a wonderful landscape with green, sand and waterway spaces, golfers enjoy applying and improving their skills while enjoying the best of nature. Courses for adults and children introduce beginners into this fascinating sport, and equipment is also available at specialized shops. The whole family will also enjoy the 18-hole minigolf track...
★ Play Tennis and squash, basketball and volleyball
As an upscale location, El Gouna wouldn't be complete without tennis courts. At the tennis academy and club players and beginners alike will enjoy professional tennis and squash courts, may enrol into tennis lessons or have fun on the basketball, volleyball and mini-football fields. The El Gouna Tennis Tournament and Squash Open have become famous competitions among the worldwide tennis and squash-loving public.
★ El Gouna Sporting Club, Go-Kart track
Football fans and enthousiasts of other sports will enjoy the El Gouna Sporting Club, with a full-size field with night illumination, hosting events and training sessions in a year-round beautiful weather. A go-kart track is also available for the joy of the youngsters and the whole family.
★ El Gouna for the family and children
A pleasant family life is a priority in El Gouna. Not only are hotels, villas and apartments built with the comfort and happiness of families in mind; many children's clubs, in- and outdoor playgrounds, kindergardens, water playgrounds, aquaparks and activity centers like the "Mini Kids Academy" as well as a nature park offer a great variety of activities your children can enjoy in professional care. And of course, the various sports clubs offer training courses for children as well.
★ Cafeterias and restaurants
If you like a delicious meal, there is no better place than El Gouna to enjoy it. More than 70 cafés and restaurants throughout the town compete in creativity to offer you the most exquisite dishes from all-over the World. And that's not counting the buffets and restaurants of the many high-class hotels...
★ Enjoy nightlife in El Gouna...
Not only is El Gouna a gorgeous place to witness a beauiful sunset and the romantic night illumination, you can also enjoy a drink in a pub, a cocktail lounge or dance in one of the many discotheques... or enjoy the evening program in one of the many hotels. On the street to Hurghada you will also find discotheques and night clubs...
★ El Gouna - a cultural city
Benefiting from the exceptional setting and services, many concerts, events and conferences are held in El Gouna. The yearly El Gouna Film Festival - held in the amazing El Gouna Cultural Center - is commented and referred to worldwide. Moreover, various concerts are held regularly, and galleries exhibit prestigious art... You may also visit the local library with more than 150'000 digitized books and documents, the aquarium, or leave on a visit of the Hurghada museum and library, sand sculptures, and marine institute museum.
★ In El Gouna you are protected
Tight security at the entrance and inside El Gouna makes sure that you and your possessions are protected in El Gouna. You can thus fully enjoy your stay, with utmost peace of mind, without having to think about your car, luggage or devices or having to carry them with you.
★ All the shops you may need
You will find a variety of shops, mostly concentrated downtown, but also spread all-over the city. Whether you need groceries or sweets, household equipment or computer parts, souvenirs or brand clothing... you will find everything nearby. And if you like a stroll in a mall, at a short drive you will find several of them in Hurghada, with local, Carrefour, Spinneys and other international hypermarkets.
★ Banks and ATM's
In El Gouna you will find several banks, local as well as international, where you can also change money or send and receive Western Union transfers. A wide range of ATM's is also available, and many hotels and restaurants as well as shops accept credit card payment.
★ Pharmacies, doctors, nurses, and a hospital
El Gouna is a truly integrated city, planned to provide any service you may need. Therefore you will find several pharmacies, doctors and dentists, and even a hospital with modern equipment and state of the art treatment. In nearby Hurghada there are several other public and private specialized laboratories, clinics and hospitals known for their excellent health care.
★ Educational institutions
In El Gouna you can choose among a broad variety of international schools, private schools, language centers and institutes - like the campus of the Berlin Technical University - as well as private lessons and tuition of various levels to provide your children and adolescents with the best education. A German technical university, a nursing school and a German hotel management school are also available, and a new university with a variety of institutes is being built nearby.
★ Excursions and activities
There is a large amount of creative, fun and unique activities in which you can participate, not only on and in the sea, but also on land, like star watching tours, desert quad safaris with bedouin meal and party, visit of a ghost town, the Delfinarium, the Hurghada Grand Aquarium, Mini-Egypt, diving safaris, Nile and Lake Nasser cruises, and many more. Why not go for instance on a "Pirates" sailing tour, or a birthday party yacht trip? Travel offices in El Gouna and Hurghada will inform you.
★ Travel and visits
During your stay or residence in El Gouna you are of course not limited to this wonderful town. Being quite centrally located between Cairo, Alexandria or Suez in the North and Marsa Alam, Luxor and Aswan in the South, you can easily visit any of the famous historic locations by tourist coach, a private tour in a 4X4 vehicle, a rented car or by airplane from Hurghada airport.
★ Romantic El Gouna - the dream place for your wedding and honeymoon!
Your wedding may well be the greatest event in your life, and deserves a very special environment in which romance, beauty and excellent service combine. Adding to all this, several specialized wedding organizers offer you the most amazing wedding setting you can ever dream of. Experience your happiest day in enchanting El Gouna followed by a breath-taking honeymoon surpassing the tales of 1001 nights!
★ Work in and from El Gouna
Did you ever think of leaving the stress and pressure behind, and living and working in a paradise on Earth? If you are really convinced and ready to abandon your habits and routine, you can! In El Gouna and its surroundings you may well find an interesting job, or set up your own shop, office or project. And if you work online, there is no better suited place for it than El Gouna... The GSpace El Gouna project offers just that - an ideal environment for online and team work.
★ Retire in El Gouna
After long and painful years of stressful work, you definitely deserve a pleasant and rewarding retirement. If you have some savings - or plan for your retirement - why not invest it in your own villa or apartment in or near El Gouna? There you have your future secured, in a marvelous and affordable environment, with year-round beautiful weather and a nice climate, an all the medical care available should you need it.
★ Invest in El Gouna
Like most other people, you might have thought about investing your savings or part of your salary into a secure, profitable asset. While bank savings dwindle with inflation, and stocks are subject to market fluctuations, real estate in Egypt is a very rewarding investment - with a 10% to 20% increase per year! And with the progressive completion of large smart urban, administrative and commercial projects, and a strong economic growth, the value of real estate is skyrocketing...
★ Where to stay
You will find several hotels, hotel apartment compounds and villa apartments for rent in El Gouna, from the medium-priced to the extravagant five and seven star hotels competing in luxurious amenities, landscaping, swimming pools, aquaparks and sea or lagoon beaches... and of course delicious restaurants and high-class services. However, you may also stay in a hotel or hotel apartment complex nearby, in Al Ahyaa or Hurghada, and visit El Gouna on a day tour.
★ If you loved El Gouna...
If, like most people, you loved El Gouna and you can't get it out of your mind, why not buy an apartment or a villa in El Gouna? So you might well enjoy your vacations, live or spend your retirment in this heart-warming place. If the price tag seems too high, you may well be able to buy an apartment in a luxury compound nearby, in the newly established touristic and residential area in North Al Ahyaa, at just 5 km from El Gouna, benefiting from much lower prices and comfortable payment plans - and you can enjoy El Gouna in daily trips...
★ Conferences, seminars, meetings and courses - or concerts
El Gouna with its calm and peaceful atmosphere is an ideal place to hold conferences, meetings, seminars and courses - or even a concert. Beside the wonderfully conceived large El Gouna Conference, Concert and Festival Center, many hotels offer conference services in especially conceived rooms, with all needed equipment, for large and small meetings, events and venues, and you can find auditoriums equipped for presentations and courses. Choose El Gouna for your next conference, presentation or course, and you and the participants will never forget it!
★ Places of worship
If you like to worship, in and around El Gouna you will find the calm surrounding and several mosques and churches, including an evangelical church and coptic orthodox churches.
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