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El Gouna hotels - About El Gouna El Gouna (Arabic: الجونة, the lagoon) is a tourist resort, developed and owned by Orascom Hotels and Development, dating from about 1990, It is located on the Red Sea in Egypt, 22 km north of Hurghada International Airport.
El Gouna specializes in watersports, including scuba diving, windsurfing, kitesurfing, waterskiing, parasailing and snorkelling. There are two main beaches, Zeytuna Beach located on its own island and Mangroovy Beach. A network of canals allow many houses to have their own strip of beach, even hundreds of metres inland. Most of these canals are crossed by small stone bridges.
Currently boasting 14 hotels (some of which were designed by the American architect Michael Graves) from three star to five stars; a six star hotel is currently under development next to the Abu Tig Marina Extension.
El Gouna hosts a Golf course designed by Gene Bates and Fred Couples.
El Gouna has a fully equipped hospital that can handle many medical treatments including dentistry, plastic surgery, pediatrics, ophthalmology and general surgery. It also features and intensive care unit and a decompression chamber incase of diving accidents. It also has a school, an Environmental Geographic Information System and a small private airport for charter aircraft. There are also two marinas; - Abydos marina and the Abu Tig Marina. The Abu Tig Marina is currently undergoing an extension, in order to receive super yachts.
There is a small museum with some 90 exhibits (including statue replicas and an exhibition hall of contemporary Egyptian paintings by Hussein Bikar) which was opened in 1996.
Coordinates: 27°23′06″N 33°40′45″E / 27.385, 33.67917
Source: CIA Factbook, Wikipedia
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