WIND & CLIMATE
Year round good climate and steady winds. Best
wind during summer. Generally wind starts in the
morning and will pick up during the day. When you
are lucky wind stays the whole day. Also in winter
no problems for kiting, only then more wind early
in the morning. Mostly the wind will drop after 3
AM. Kiting on these clear warm (22 degrees - 28
degrees) waters in shorts makes Hurghada a
paradise.
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RAS SUDR
Ras Sudr is a small-undeveloped place, but an
oasis for kite and windsurfers. Lying only 80 km
from the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal is linking the
Mediterranean with the Gulf of Aden. This saved
the Europeans a lot of money with their journeys
to Asia and further. This place is unique!.
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WIND & CLIMATE
The wind in Ras Sudr is almost perfect. Except for
the Winter months, like December, January and
February. The other summer months are perfect. Best
months are June until September. During the
winter months the change on wind is really small.
So be sure and only go there during summer months.
You don't want to sit there without wind. In Ras
Sudr is really nothing to do.
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KITESURFING IN RAS SUDR
The wind in Ras Sudr is blowing from the
North-Northeast direction. This means sailing out
with your right foot in front. The place were
everybody is kitesurfing is in front of the Ramada
hotel. Here is also a really nice centre of
Club-Mistral. The turquoise-colored water in front
of the centre is flat. For like 150 meters you can
touch the sandy bottom. A little bit further the
water gets choppier. At the right side of the centre
is a nice lagoon. So this is perfect for beginners.
The lagoon is about a 250 meters walk from the
centre upwind. The water is really torquise
especially on the lagoon. So if you kite there you
will everywhere see the sandy bottom. Too bad that
there are no coral reefs! So no big waves in Ras
Sudr
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GETTING THERE
Book a flight to Cairo. Then it is an almost 3 hours
drive to Ras Sudr. This drive is very impressive. On
the way you have multiple checkpoints. One is when
you drive underneath the Suez Canal and one if you
change continents from Africa to Asia. A lot of
soldiers with weapons standing on these checkpoints!
No problem but be sure that you have arranged your
drive from Cairo to Ras Sudr!
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OTHER ACTIVITIES
You can combine your kite or windsurfing holiday
with a trip to the sights in and around the capital
of Egypt. This can be limited to a day. The pyramids
of Giza and the Egyptian museum are the most popular
to see.
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AT NIGHT
Ras Sudr is going to be further developed. But now
the nightlife is death. You can drink beer or wine
in the hotel but nothing more then that.
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