Apart from water sports, restaurants, and bars, there are many other activities visitors can enjoy in the coastal tourist towns and cities. These include markets, camel and horse riding, desert bashing with beach buggies, quad bikes, or motorbikes, short 4×4 excursions, sandboarding, and Bedouin dinner parties. Visitors can also take part in community initiatives, such as Bedouin handicraft and medicinal herb projects.
Camel and horse riding are popular in the resort towns, and they can last from a very short time to many hours or even a full day. Many hotels and operators offer camel rides to popular destinations such as the Blue Hole, or include short camel rides in their other programs. You can also ride camels at some of the oases and canyons, as well as at Mt. Sinai. Camels are either led on a lead or tied together. Although it is not a real safari, it might be quite an adventure for someone who has never ridden a camel before.
Beach buggies, quads and bikes are strong machines that rip up the desert, so be responsible! Off-road adventures of this type are popular on the outskirts of the resort cities of Sinai, and as long as you keep to the designated areas, it is a responsible fun activity. However, some tours venture inside a National Park or Natural Protectorate – if that’s the case, please obey the rules and warn others if necessary!
Sandboarding is another fun activity. There are suitable dunes near the red Sea resort towns, but to get to the biggest slopes one needs to take a 4×4 vehicle and head off to the desert. Good places for sandboarding include the Dune of Safra near Wadi Arada and the Nawamis settlement, or the Haduda sand dune near the Nawamis settlement and Ras Ghazala.
Contact us if you need help with any activities, we’re here to help! Or consider one of our regular programs we offer, listed below.
Bedouin dinner party
As long as the party is organized by Bedouin it is an “authentic” experience. It is a tourist activity, of course, but you meet locals, exchange thoughts, have fun together. Music and singing into the night is how the Bedouin celebrate their various social events, and the atmosphere around the campfire under the stars is an unforgetable experience.
Visit a Bedouin Handicrafts Project
Most women are involved in making handicrafts at home, and there are still a few men who keep up the traditional crafts such as silversmith work. Several grassroots projects support these traditions and display and sell these items for the benefit of the community. We can help you organize a visit to any of the initiatives.
Visit a Medicinal & Aromatic Herbs Project
There are hundreds of medicinal and aromatic plants in Sinai, many endemic, which the Bedouin have traditionally used as natural remedies. Most gardens grow some of these wild plants, and the knowledge of the medicine man — the hakim — lives on through apprentices and various projects. We can help you organize a visit to any of the initiatives.
Visit a Desert School
Bedouin families live in small hamlets and settlements across the deserts of Sinai, but these days most children go to school. Visit one of these desert schools and perhaps offer an English class for the eager and curious pupils. See a bit of the real Sinai, and learn about why the people love this simple way of life.
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