If Egypt did not have the pyramids and the Sphinx, the treasures of Tutankhamun and Luxor tombs, if fertile Nile, along which lie the ancient cities and temples, rolled its waters in some other exotic country, and even then would have numerous hotels in Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh were full of tourists. Because the main natural treasure of Egypt – a fantastically beautiful Red Sea.

Coral reefs – a national treasure of Egypt. Corals – no plants, and microorganisms that can learn from the sea water calcium carbonate, from which they build their colonies. Many believe that coral – it’s flowering plants, in fact, coral polyps – living creatures belong to the class of invertebrates. Day of corals in the press in their burrows and hoard power. These amazing creatures themselves construct their own skeleton. The beauty of the unusual colors can be seen only at night when the corals “hunt”. Corals surprising variety of shapes and colors: yellow, pink, purple, blue. Round, in the form of columns, mushrooms, flat and branched, salad, fire, mountain, “Corals blaze all the colors of the rainbow.

Red Sea – an inland sea Indian Ocean. It lies between the Arabian Peninsula and Africa in a tectonic basin deeper than 3000 meters. Feature of the Red Sea is that it does not fall into any one river. Therefore, the water is crystal clear. Egyptian Red Sea coast stretches from Suez to the Sudanese border by more than 100 km from north to south. The name he was given the ancient mariners of the red rocks.

Red Sea – the salt and warm the planet. Average temperature – + 21 – + 27 S. South of the Red Sea is literally teeming with a huge variety of fish. Some titles are delighted! “Bats,” blue “gubanchiki” colorful “angels”, sail fish, sword fish, yellow tuna. Particularly bright color differ angelfish and butterfly fish, clown fish and sultan. Underwater possible meeting with a striped dolphin and the green turtle, barakkudoy and marlin. Here and there float stingrays, starfish crawl, explore the depths of the sea rhythmically ancient sea turtles. They reach enormous dimensions – length of carapace up to 1.4 meters and weight up to 600 kilograms. On a sandy or rocky seabed can be seen a large number of amazing echinoderm sea cucumbers.