Отдыхая в Египте Resting in Egypt

I would like to share my impressions about a trip to rest in one of the hotels of the Hyatt chain. In particular Hyatt Regency Taba Heights. It is located about 20 km from the village of Taba, on the Egyptian-Israeli border. And 230 km from Sharm. You can write a separate article about the road from Sharm to the hotel, or even a whole story. This is an extreme adventure (those who have a driver's license and have been to Egypt will understand me), but it provides an additional opportunity to get acquainted with the nature, ecology, customs and partly the culture of this country. Hotel "Haytt", one of the five hotels in this place on the Red Sea coast (the others: Mayot, Sofitel, Intercontinental, El-Vekala) and occupies a separate position among them. Separate in terms of organizing planning and landscaping. In the conditions of the stone desert that surrounds the resort, this is a very laborious and expensive pleasure. . For the Slavic brothers, greenery is taken for granted, but go outside the hotel! Not a drop of water! Not a piece of land! Not a green leaf! Only stone, crushed stone, sand and rare curved bushes with the sharpest thorns! The territory of Hayat (this is how the Arabs say, stretching out vowels) really looks like a botanical garden - exotic flowers, dates on palm trees, specific smells of southern plants, paths designed so that you can’t see anything further than 3-5 meters, in general, an advantageous difference from other hotels. The first few days, the problem was to immediately find the path leading from the room to the sea: ) But there is no one to ask! No, really, no one! During the day, you can wander along the paths for a long time, hear quiet music from the rooms, sometimes foreign speech, the rustle of servants’ electric cars, the sound of the sea and the birds singing among the flowers, but you won’t meet anyone! Perhaps this is the strongest impression about the hotel. Perhaps my wife and I were lucky and we ended up in such a time period that there were few guests, but in the mornings and especially in the evenings people appeared in restaurants! I'm not writing for fun. You can come to the beach at any time - there are always free sunbeds (although there are not many of these sunbeds). If three people swim in the pools at the same time, then this is already a crowd! In a restaurant from the first day you sit down at the table you like and, as a rule, it will be free next time. Of those vacationers who still meet at the hotel, Russian-speaking units. Mostly Europeans. Of course, for many "our" all-inclusive travelers to Egypt, the hotel will seem boring. Quiet, calm, unobtrusive. Where are the pyramids? ! Where is the east? Where is the expression? ! Where are the "hot" Arabian nights? ! In Cairo. In Sharm El Sheikh. In Hurghada. But not in Taba, not in Hayat. In Hayat - rest. From the crowd, hustle, noise, booze, cold. I don’t recommend going to Hyatt for young and not very people who are used to “lighting up” - you can only light up the room in which you live. But, from the hotel you can (read necessary) go to Jordan to the ancient pink city of Petra. Nearby is Mount Moses and the monastery of St. Catherine with a burning bush, and the Colored Canyon is worth the money and time spent. In general, who. I do not specifically describe the food at the hotel, the condition of the beach, the cleanliness of the bed linen and the frequency of its replacement, the attitude of the servants towards the guests, etc. , etc. because it is forgotten (and all five-star hotels in Egypt are almost equal in terms of good European four), but that feeling of the density of the saltiest Red Sea, hot fine sand, amazing turquoise-blue color of the surf, stunning underwater world of reefs and corals, communication with Arabs in shops in a wild mixture of Russian-English-Farsi and God knows what else mixed with laughter and gestures, an unusual smell from heated rocks, the sea, oriental spices, hookah, withering dates, aromatic oils - this will stay with me forever!! !