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Situated on southern border crossing between Egypt and Israel, Taba services travellers coming into Egypt and the Sinai via Eilat. It’s famous for its multifarious diving centers.

Taba is an Egyptian town near the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba. Taba is the location of Egypt's busiest border crossing with neighboring Israel. Taba, with its generally calm weather conditions and lack of currents, is an ideal location of the Red Sea Riviera to learn to dive. Most resorts in Taba have reliable and well-organized diving centres.
One of Taba's main attractions, Pharaoh's Island, is simply breathtaking. Pharaoh's Island, also called Coral Island or Geziret Faroun, lies eight kilometers south of Taba and 250 meters off the coast. The Phoenicians were the first to make use of this island's fine natural haven during the 10th century BC. Much later the small rocky island came under Byzantine control. Early in the 12th century the Crusaders built a fortress there to protect pilgrims traveling between Jerusalem and the Monastery of St Katherine. Today you can follow in the footsteps of the legendary Lawrence of Arabia and explore the fully renovated fortress.
Various trips to the Bedouins, to palm-filled oases Ein Kid and Ein Khadra are much favour here. Excursions to St Catherines Monastery, Mount Sinai, and Coloured Canyon are available from Taba. The Blue Desert also is a great place for climbing, taking pictures or just getting away from it all. In 1980, Belgian artist Jean Verame came to the Sinai to paint a line of peace. With the permission of Anwar Sadat and a grant of ten tons of paint from the UN, the artist managed to paint four miles of the Sinai.

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