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Now the island of Tiran opposite Sharm belongs to Saudi Arabia!
Now the island of Tiran opposite Sharm belongs to Saudi Arabia!
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Why do you think so? Although even when in 2013 I sailed on a yacht to the island, the guide told us that you can’t swim close to the island, there is a military base of Saudi Arabia, for the same reason they don’t take them to the island itself.
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answered 7 years ago
Not yet, but Egypt agreed to give 2 islands to Saudi Arabia. It's a question of time.
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answered 7 years ago
But nothing! There are no excursions to Tiran, but what they offer is a scam. They don’t take them to Tiran, but they just stand in the sea near some reef and dive there .. For the price of Tiran, it’s more expensive than just a trip with diving on a yacht, but in fact the same thing))) There is a military base of Saudi Arabia on Tirana , constantly circling helicopters
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answered 7 years ago
It was handed over last year, they just won’t legally issue it in any way
https://ria.ru/world/20170402/1491296005.html
https://ria.ru/world/20170402/1491296005.html
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answered 7 years ago
karo555 "There are no excursions to Tiran" - what were once excursions to the island itself? Landing on the island seems to have always been prohibited. Between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, this has always been a disputed territory. They wrote about the transfer of the island last year. And the "excursion to Tiran" meant a stop on a yacht near the island for diving / snorkeling. Well, then on the way back a couple more stops near good reefs. Now yachts are approaching the island as well.
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answered 7 years ago
zaeugene, how many times I have been to Sharm, there have always been separate excursions to Tiran and just a separate dive trip. Experienced people immediately did not recommend taking it to Tiran. And where they were taken there - I do not know. This tour has always cost more. By the way, in April I also saw her on the lists, and they explained to us that this is the same walk on the sea, but more expensive
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answered 7 years ago
karo555 well, with the same success we can say that on a yacht both Tiran and Ras Mohamed are the same walks on the sea as along the hotels and are no different :))))
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answered 7 years ago
Well, even if this is so, then this obviously will not affect tourists. This is a purely political issue.
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answered 7 years ago
zaeugene, speaking of birds! Ras Mohamed is good only with land excursions. There are curiosities there are mangroves. And as for corals, they are exactly the same as on the entire coast of Sharm, no one specially planted rare species there and did not breed special fish. So these water excursions are practically no different, except for the duration. And since it is mainly visitors who are in Egypt for the first or second time that go on water excursions, they can be taken anywhere and claim that it is Ras Mohamed or something else.
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answered 7 years ago
karo555, it happened like this for us - 4 couples of people gathered in hotels, and then it turned out that we bought an excursion to Abu Gallum, and others to the Colored Canyon. Other couples were Arab - so I don’t know what excursions they agreed on))
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answered 7 years ago
Tiran Island belongs to Saudi Arabia, while sovereignty over the island has been the subject of a long dispute between Egypt, which has effectively controlled it since the 1950s, and Saudi Arabia, while in 1967 the island was given to Egypt on a long-term lease. The island is not inhabited, except for the UN military base, which is located on its territory (Observation Post 3-11) of international observers MFO (Multinational Force and Observers), which monitors compliance by Egypt and Israel with the peace treaty. It is not safe on the island, as many beaches are mined, so excursions to Tiran Island itself are prohibited. In 1988, a project was developed to build a bridge from Egypt to Saudi Arabia across the island of Tiran. On June 14, 2017, the Egyptian Parliament approved the transfer of the two disputed islands of Tiran and Sanafir in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia (before that, Saudi Arabia ratified this agreement a long time ago, almost immediately after the conclusion) .
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answered 7 years ago
Tigrusik2006 and the Tsvetnoy canyon is also not so simple))) There are so many of these canyons that you can’t just make out. As for Tsvetnoy itself, it was closed as a nature reserve. Now they carry anywhere in any mountainous places. The photos come out about the same, there are no identification marks anywhere anyway. And for a beginner, what is Colored, what is Golden - you can’t distinguish one fig. The exceptions are historical excursions, Dahab and Blue Gul (you can’t confuse a blue hole with anything), land Ras Mohamed. Everything else is either just walks on the sea, or walks in the mountains. But to attract tourists, they had to be somehow loudly and romantically named.
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