Tourist attraction
Giftun Islands
Giftun Island, Red Sea Governorate 84511
Twin coral islands and marine park where reef fish outnumber almost anywhere else in the Red Sea.
This guide to the Giftun Islands, off Hurghada, opens in 2004 with an Italian developer's two-billion-dollar plan to cover the island in resorts, marinas and hotel towers. Divers who knew these reefs saw what was coming, and on World Earth Day that year hundreds of dive boats and thousands of protesters showed up wearing plain t-shirts with a blunt two-word message on the back. An online petition raced past ten thousand signatures, most from divers abroad who had never set foot here.
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