Soma Bay

This guide to Soma Bay traces how an empty desert peninsula south of Hurghada, reached by a single private road, became a resort built around an eighteen-hole championship course designed by Gary Player and one of the Red Sea's largest thalassotherapy spas. It follows the coastline where divers now explore quieter coral walls and wrecks, and returns to the wild eagle that still hunts the canyon below the bar named for it. Listen with a view toward the greens against the bare mountains behind them.