Hurghada centre ville

This guide to Hurghada's town center starts with the origin of its name, garkad, a desert shrub, and traces how a fishing village became an oil company town after British prospectors struck crude in nineteen thirteen. It follows the shift from derricks to tourism, and how a single international hotel gave Sheraton Road its name and reshaped this stretch of coast. Locals still call the district Sakala; listen for that name as you walk the seafront strip today.