NUWEIBA, South Sinai — Over the past six months, tourism sector investors in South Sinai have sold their furniture, kitchen equipment, safari jeeps, diving gear and in some cases were forced to give up whole facilities in return for the debts they’ve compiled due to severe income shortages and flaring prices.
Driving from Taba, Sinai’s last beach town on the Israeli border, dozens of resorts and beach camps dotting the 45-mile road to Nuweiba were deserted. The Red Sea’s powerful winds, once ridden by thousands of surfers from across the world, tore down the palm-leaf bungalows and blew piles of sand into the wooden beach cabins viewing the Aqaba Gulf and a sun rising above the mountainous shores of Saudi Arabia.
