Holidays egypt

How and when celebrate New year in Egypt

New Year's holidays in Egypt can not be celebrated with the European scope, but nevertheless. Moreover, the whimsical history of Egypt has left set of the holidays anyhow adhered by New year and Christmas in the inheritance.

First, it is "usual" New year: in Cairo and Alexandria imported fir-trees and Pere Noel are for a long time normal attribute of a holiday. At muslims of "Ras al-Sana" marks the beginning of new year on a lunar calendar. To fans of Ancient Egypt New year can be celebrated already in the end of September - then the beginning of year was marked by flood of Nile. We will not forget also Copts - "east" branch of Christianity - which in Egypt lives much. Copts, as well as the majority of Christians, mark Christmas on January, 7th - about ten years ago this day became in the Egyptian calendar an official holiday.

Well and as any tourist country, Egypt is ready to meet together with visitors and all other holidays. Therefore in hotels the celebratory New Year's supper became hardly not obligatory attribute of rest, its cost frequently simply include in round cost. Mark both Catholic, and orthodox Christmas. So interested persons in celebrating the New Year on rest without a holiday don't remain.

First of all it is necessary to master depths of Red sea is, according to the overwhelming majority of tourists, the most important thing for the sake of what it is necessary to go there. To master depth it is possible in two ways - having registered in diving and having combined watching small fishes with training to knowledge of an underwater science. A variety of the underwater world shakes, and ability won't use an aqualung anyway to the superfluous.

Someone afraid to go down on ten-meter depth and to master the unusual techniques? Means, you need to be engaged snorkeling. So now is called watching the underwater world by means of a mask, a tube and flippers. At the beginning enough intuitive development, anything difficult don't present. It will be pleasant - it is possible to reach in snorkeling perfection, plunging on 15-20 meters and spending under water for 2-3 minutes. But it already for fans. The main "sea" council - nothing suffices hands, either fishes, or corals. Don't become on corals on shoal. It is harmful to the nature, and for you can be dangerous.

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