Collected from your hotel in Hurghada, Makadi or El Gouna and driven to the desert base camp.
Eastern Desert Quad Safari, Guests of a Bedouin Family - Hurghada
6
Hours
Overview
Twenty minutes inland from the Red Sea hotels the coast disappears and the Eastern Desert begins - hard gravel plain, dry riverbeds and low mountains the colour of rust. You cross it on a quad bike, in convoy, with a guide leading and another closing the line.
Halfway, the track reaches a Bedouin settlement. You are shown how bread is baked in the sand under a fire, how the herbal tea is made, and you can ride a camel if you want to. It is a stop that has been doing this for years, so expect it to be organised rather than accidental.
Quad tours are sold on every corner of this coast and they are not the same. We choose our partner carefully and go and look for ourselves: the condition and servicing of the machines, helmets and protective gear in the right sizes, one guide leading and one closing the convoy, and a group small enough to stay together. We have visited the settlement too. If something does not meet that standard, the operator does not go into our programme.
The afternoon run back is timed for sunset, when the mountains turn red and the dust hangs in the low light.
Slower, or differently - always possible. Tell us how you like to travel and we will rebuild the day around it.
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Trip Highlights
Tour Itinerary
A short lesson on the quad, then out into the open desert in convoy. No previous experience needed.
Sand bread, herbal tea and a look at how people live out here. Camel rides available, and time to sit under the shade cloth.
The run back across the plain as the light goes, and the transfer to your hotel.
Costs
The Cost Includes
The Cost Excludes
Who are we actually riding with?
A partner we selected and have visited ourselves. We look at the condition and servicing of the quads, at helmets and protective gear in the right sizes, at having two guides per convoy, and at keeping the group small enough to stay together. If an operator does not meet that standard, they do not go into our programme.
Enquiry
Dr. Sherif Azab-Els reads and answers these himself, usually within a day. An enquiry costs you nothing and commits you to nothing.
From
$60/ Adult
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