Discover El Gouna: Egypt's Luxurious Red Sea Oasis

Best things to do in El Gouna

Discover El Gouna: Egypt's Luxurious Red Sea OasisEl Gouna is handsomely located on the Red Sea coast of Egypt and offers a blend of luxury, leisure, and adventure for all kinds of tourists. This purposefully created community should offer, besides s...

Best things to do in El Gouna

Discover El Gouna: Egypt's Luxurious Red Sea Oasis

El Gouna is handsomely located on the Red Sea coast of Egypt and offers a blend of luxury, leisure, and adventure for all kinds of tourists. This purposefully created community should offer, besides scenic natural beauty, a hint of modern sophistication due to its picture-postcard lagoons, upscale amenities, and an animated nightlife. Whether one wants to look for a serene retreat or an action-packed holiday, El Gouna has got everything. Here with a guide to discovering the best that the city has in store and how to live these Egypt tours to the fullest.

Relaxing on Pristine Beaches

El Gouna boasts its picturesque beaches, where crystal-clear waters meet soft, golden sands. Noted destinations include Mangroovy Beach and Zeytouna Beach, ideal for sunbathing, swimming, and indulging in water sports such as windsurfing, kite surfing, and diving. These two beaches are destinations for relaxation, having tranquil water and luxurious facilities along the beach. Inclusion of a visit to these beaches in your El Gouna day tours would indeed be rejuvenating.

Dive and Snorkeling in the Red Sea

With its colorful coral reefs and different species of fish, the Red Sea is a perfect place to dive or snorkel. Several dive centers along Abu Tig Marina serve both the amateur and professional diver. Snorkeling trips and adventures are easily found to explore the beauty of the Red Sea underwater world. Adding a diving or snorkeling adventure to the Egypt day tours will ensure a lifetime memory of the marina paradise.

Discover El Gouna Marina

The Abu Tig Marina is the real life and soul of El Gouna. It never stops, day or night, with its luxurious yachts, chic cafes, gourmet restaurants, and stylish boutiques that manage to give one a taste of the high life. Strolling up and down along the marina, lunch with a view, or some shopping top the list of activities one can engage in during your El Gouna day tours. Join in on the lively atmosphere and take in the surroundings—it was something else, really.

Enjoy Water Sports and Activities

El Gouna offers a variety of water sports to people with a sense of adventure. Activities include kite surfing, windsurfing, and paddleboarding. With constant winds and generally calm waters, conditions could hardly be better for these sports. Sports centers in town offer hire and lessons at all levels. Adding the sport to the list will make El Gouna water sports a thrilling, lively experience added to your Egypt tours.

Desert Safari

Beyond the beauty of the coastline, El Gouna offers a deep-desert, exhilarating desert safari adventure across the Egyptian desert. Come and take a journey through rugged landscapes, ride quad bikes, or take a camel trek across the dunes. Evening safaris normally include traditional Bedouin dinners in the stars, giving the best feel to the culture with the taste of authentic Egyptian hospitality. This is absolutely useful in adding the adventure on to your Egypt day tours, viewed to offer a different and unique perspective of the natural beauty here.

Explore El Gouna's Cultural Landmarks

Even though luxury and leisure take the lead in El Gouna, several cultural attractions are still at one's disposal. It should be pointed out that there are the following: unique libraries like the El Gouna Library and churches reflecting local culture and history, such as the Church of St. Mary and the Archangels. The El Gouna Art Village will be of interest to any art lover at first sight, reborn with works by local and international artists. Deepen your time in El Gouna with these cultural visits.

Unwind in some of the World's Best Spas

Seeking indulgence, El Gouna hosts a few of the world's most luxurious spas, where highly skilled and true experts in their specialty work to ease your mind and rejuvenate your body. Be it a traditional massage, a refreshing facial, or an entire wellness program, the town's spas offer ultimate relaxation. This indulgence is a perfect way to conclude your Egypt tours, leaving you refreshed and revitalized.

With luxurious amenities, breathtaking natural beauty, and a million activities, El Gouna is indeed one of the places to be visited during any tour to Egypt. A taste of just that lovely concoction of relaxation and activity along the pristine beaches of El Gouna, vibrant coral reefs, water sports, and desert safaris is what you would get. Here, described below, are the top highlights to add when going on your day tour of El Gouna for this truly unforgettable experience in the Red Sea oasis of Egypt.

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Amazing full day Luxor East and West bank tour with our awesome guide Mohammed Hasan and excellent driver Jaber. Mohammed was extremely knowledgeable and great company. Thank you Happy Egypt for the absolutely wonderful experience in Luxor

Damian T October 2025

I was visiting Hurghada and was delighted to find out it was possible to see the sights of Luxor while I was there. A friend of mine recommended this tour and I was so happy he did. The driver Gabor and the tour guide Essam took good care of me, showed up on time, and answered all my questions.

In particular, the company sent Gabor because of his English proficiency, which meant he drove from Luxor to Hurghada, picked me up, drove me to Luxor, drove me around all day, drove me back to Hurghada, and then drove back to Luxor! Four four-hour trips in one day! The ride included drinks and bathroom stops and Gabor provided me with Egyptian money to go to the bathroom, because I hadn't had a chance to get any yet.

Essam did a great job recommending what I should do and answering my many questions, and he was always willing for me to stop to take photos, including finding a way for an unscheduled stop for Nile photos.

Lunch was also very good and went beyond the usual felafel-and-shawarma.

It is absolutely worth doing this as a private tour rather than being herded around in a group.

slfisher June 2025

I participated in Slavia village riding, temporarily found this company, customer service staff is good, the United States is not able to pay with cash, online payment has additional charges to generate scum
The tour guide Ahmed service is good, he took us on a boat to the village, and riding the hill, and slowly walked in the village road, let us both scared and excited, to the village Ahmed brought us to enjoy the local special bread with black honey and old-fashioned, eat as well as soy milk 😁, and also drank black tea, also let us try Arabic spice coffee, the whole shop is very beautiful, then we went to Slavic school to learn Arabic and Slavic language, really very difficult but fresh, but unfortunately to rush back to the collection otherwise really like a lot more, I highly recommend Slavic Arabic riding

Mei May 2025

We took a ride in the village of Slavia, but I couldn't find an option to review this activity
Because it is temporary so I found this company on the Internet, customer service staff is good, but the only US is not enough is that he can only brush cards online can not pay cash, hope to have the option of paying cash

We had a great afternoon
Leading our guide Ahmed people are good, we because of the previous trip delayed time, let him wait for us a while on the boat, up to the boat to discover the entire boat only us, he also gave us water and drinks, we saw the sunset on the boat to take pictures very carefully, the road Ahmed like we told the surrounding view, some understand some not understand, but this is the charm of travel
Finally arrived at the place where Ahmed was very good to support us in the upper edge, the youth who carried the rope was also reassured to give us, but there was no stubborn edge in the back of the supervision, on the road we would run for a while and walk very self-sufficient, in his body we were afraid and excited, and finally walked into the village of slavery, we went to eat slavery bread with black sugar and adult food, that servant and our soy milk taste super like soy milk, also drank black tea, because Arab coffee is interested so we also tried, the taste is very special. Finally we went to the school in Slavia for a class, really a classroom, we quickly learned some Arabic and Slavic, really too hard, but very happy, if not to rush back and gather, really want to slow down the whole village

Paradise May 2025

Mei May 2025

We wanted to book an Aswan tour on the day our Nile cruise allowed free for a trip. Most of the other companies seemed to only offer trips that had already been included in our cruise package. So I found this company and booked the "Nobles Tombs, Famine Stela and Elephantine Island" tour online, and prepaid by credit card.

We were picked up from our cruise boat from the Aswan dock and taken to a motorboat. Our guide Mustafa took us first to The Nobles Tombs, they were very different to VoK type tombs. They showed scenes of more ordinary life and were tombs of high officials rather than pharaohs. We then sailed to Sehel Island to see the rock inscriptions and the famous Famine Stela. From there we sailed back to Elephantine Island, we had a great view of the Old Cataract Hotel from the river, to tour the Temple of Satet and the Temple of Khnum. We also saw two of the rivers Nilometers.

Overall it was a fabulous tour to the varied sites via a motorboat river trip. Our guide Mustafa was very knowledgeable and spoke very good English. It was easy to arrange and Ahmed contacted us via WhatsApp to reconfirm details when our boat arrived in Aswan.

Highly recommended, great value for money.

smallblueplanet May 2025

We organized our 5-days private program for Dendarah, Luxor and Giza-Cairo with Happy Egypt Travel Services.
The program included road transfer from Hurghada to Luxor and visit to Denderah, Karnak and Luxor temples, Valley of Kings and Valley of Queens, then Giza complex, GEM and the Old Cairo.
Communication and planning with Mr. Ahmed el Sayed went extremely well. He was very quick in answering, flexible to the changes we needed to make to our trip and gave us excellent advice for optimizing our rather limited time in Egypt.

We got 2 excellent transport services (one to and in Luxor and another one in Cairo-Giza) with very good air-conditioned vans, each manned by excellent tour leaders and outstanding drivers.
Our tours to the historic and cultural objectives selected for our visit were assisted by highly professional egyptology historians.
Due to this, we returned from Egypt with an absolutely amazing, memorable vacation, rich in content and -not least- strong desire to return one day and explore more this cradle of the civilization which Egypt is.

Thank you, Happy Egypt for becoming part of these memories!

Liliana April 2025

We organized our 5-days private program for Dendarah, Luxor and Giza-Cairo with Happy Egypt Travel Services.
The program included road transfer from Hurghada to Luxor and visit to Denderah, Karnak and Luxor temples, Valley of Kings and Valley of Queens, then Giza complex, GEM and the Old Cairo.
Communication and planning with Mr. Ahmed el Sayed went extremely well. He was very quick in answering, flexible to the changes we needed to make to our trip and gave us excellent advice for optimizing our rather limited time in Egypt.
We got 2 excellent transport services (one to and in Luxor and another one in Cairo-Giza) with very good air-conditioned vans, each manned by excellent tour leaders and outstanding drivers.
Our tours to the historic and cultural objectives selected for our visit were assisted by highly professional egyptology historians.
Due to this, we returned from Egypt with an absolutely amazing, memorable vacation, rich in content and -not least- strong desire to return one day and explore more this cradle of the civilization which Egypt is.