Hurghada Warning or Danger Tips by ratherton

My last trip to Egypt was right in the middle of the Iraq War and not surprisingly, my hotel was virtually deserted.

From what I saw, the Egyptians take the safety of tourists very seriously and there was an obvious army presence in various locations in the town. At no time did I ever have any concerns about possible terrorist action.

I was also in Egypt in 1999 and the security levels were equally as high so I would have to say that the security I saw was not a knee-jerk reaction to the Iraq war.

I didn't leave the town but obviously this would be a much more difficult area for the Egyptians to patrol areas of the desert

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Not so much a warning for the tourist as a warning for the resort. My latest visit to Hurghada left me amazed at the lack of action by various guides to protect the reefs on a snorkelling trip.

On our boat, cigarettes were disgarded over the side (the filters won't break down and will choke any fish trying to eat them) and they allowed shells with creatures living in them to be removed from the sea to be taken home as souvenirs.

You may think I'm being a bit of a Greenpeace hippy but if you want your snorkelling trips to be to destinations as shown in this picture, carry on taking 'souvenirs' home with you. The coral can soon grow back in a few hundred years.

To be blunt; The reefs are a very finely balanced, fragile place. We are just visitors there and must leave nothing, touch nothing and take nothing. Even touching the coral can kill it

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