Esplanada Mall

This guide to Esplanada Mall in Hurghada traces this stretch of coast back through its unlikely past, a naval lookout point during the 1973 war, an oil outpost from 1913, and, before all that, a fishing village of hand-knotted nets. It follows the slow shift from watched shoreline to holiday destination, tracing the gamble that turned an unlikely coast into a tourist draw. Listen for how much of that older history still sits just out of sight beyond the promenade.