Adventure with the Gouna Mountain Goats Written by Craig Botes El Gouna is Arabic for "The Lagoon" and is synonymous with leisure living, adventure sports and great vacations. Big sports here include diving, snorkeling, boating, waterskiing, wakeboarding and kiteboarding. But not too many people think about the desert and the beauty within. If you do, you end up in a vast, silent and beautiful...
If I had to describe Sliders Cable Park in one word, I would say: Family. To be perfectly honest, walking into the grounds that host an extreme sport, you expect things like, arrogance and elitism to be among the first. But this could not be further from the truth. Of all the staff and riders that I spoke to, and I spoke to a fair number, were full of smiles, hospitality, warmth and were all very...
El Gouna Golf Tournament 2021 Last year, 2020, we were deprived of a golf tournament in El Gouna at the last minute due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, as the world is slowly starting to get a grip on things and borders are opening, we're seeing are seeing more tourists in El Gouna. This means that we can now enjoy a golf tournament here in El Gouna once more. Although there are 2 golf courses in El...
20 years! That is a different percentage of all our lives, but for the Club House, it has been in existence nearly as long as El Gouna itself! El Gouna, founded in 1989, was not much to look at barring the desert sand and maybe a few buildings. The Club House, built 8 years into the existence of El Gouna, might seem like a late edition, but as of now is 71% as old as El Gouna. The Club House also holds...
We had the honor of writing an amazing story about what Elements Water Sports are doing for the young and underprivileged children of El Gouna. To recap, Hussin Ali Eldien takes a group of children every Friday and teaches them everything he knows about kiting, being environmentally aware, and loving the sea. This time, we bring an equally impressive story, still in line with the theme of 'youth that...
Earth Week in El Gouna If you didn't know, El Gouna is one of the most ecologically advanced towns in the world. It boasts a recycling system that outdoes just about everybody across the globe. They might not know it, but this is one of the many factors that keep El Gouna residents and vacationers happy. It's simply one of those things: you don't look out at the sea and say, "Wow, I'm grateful for...
Samih Sawiris, the visionary and brains behind El Gouna. El Gouna is truly life as it should be with it's azure waters, world-class diving, world class kiting, friendly people and endless sunshine. Everything has a beginning and El Gouna is turning only 30 years old this year, 2019. So where did it all begin? What goes on in the mind of somebody who invents a town? Read on to find out...
Most publications, travel guides and Tripadvisor posts will be promoting all of El Gouna's most favoured attractions. But El Gouna is not just a resort. It's a resort town. And as a town, it provides many more services including a hospital, international school, grocery stores and more. Now, there is a transition zone between resort and town where one can find some places of interest that do not involve...
Invest in El Gouna Real Estate About El Gouna El Gouna is a lifestyle project and has been from the start. In the words of Samih Sawiris, “El Gouna is an evolution, not the realization of a dream”. He only set out to find a beautiful and quiet spot for him and his friends to dock their yachts and enjoy life. Looking back 30 years later, even he is amazed at what fate has done to this resort town. In...
What is El Gouna? Firstly, El Gouna or simply Gouna is Arabic for The Lagoon. الجونة is what is looks like in Arabic. El Gouna is a high class resort on the Red Sea 'invented' by Samih Sawiris, an Egyptian-Montenegrin billionaire. The lagoon - a manmade lagoon - cuts it's curvy map into the shore and offers many of the houses the opportunity to have their own strip of beach - even 100m...