Hurghada founded in the early 20th century, Hurghada was once just a tiny fisher village, with a location that seldom brought strangers here. Hurghada has gone on to become the foremost tourist resort of the Red Sea coast and an international center for aquatic sports. Today, the result is a stretch of 20 km with beach hotels. Most of these hotels are organized in an attractive way, but far from the true Egypt of great monuments, traffic jams and mud brick houses. Hurghada is in reality three main centers and numerous self-contained tourist villages now growing into one body. To the north, lies the place that is closest to being a town, Ad-Dahar, which has more than half of the total local population, and the most price worthy hotels and restaurants. A couple of kilometers south, comes Sigala, a place that suffers from being between Ad-Dahar and New Hurghada a few kilometers more to the south. There are some hotels here, some restaurants, but relatively few tourists. In New Hurghada total tourism comes alive, offering every amenity a visitor is looking for.