There’s always plenty to see and do in Hurghada, including a marine biology museum and an aquarium displaying a large selection of the aquatic life found off-shore. For a closer look at what lies beneath, you can head out on a glass-bottomed boat, but that really would be missing the point.

If Hurghada is famous for anything, it’s as one of the world’s finest destinations for watersports and, most of all, diving. The unique underwater habitats and reefs just off the coast are amongst the best snorkelling and diving points in the world and the Red Sea also holds myriad wrecks where you can come face-to-face with species that exist in no other place on the planet. There are tens of diving schools – many attached to the hotel resorts – where you can learn or, if you’re already an experienced diver, they will lead to you to the very best spots.

The water-based fun doesn’t end with diving, however, as the Red Sea also offers fantastic sailing, windsurfing and deep-sea fishing, as well as the standard and less technically-demanding fun and games of banana boating, do-nuting, parascending and jetskiing. Then, if your thirst for adventure remains unquenched, there’s always the desert for epic adventure – best explored by camel or jeep.