Blue Desert or Blue Valley

Sharm El Sheikh is located at the southern tip of Peninsula and is one of the most visited places of Egypt. The place has a wide range of tourist destinations, which suits different types of tourists coming to Sharm El Sheikh. Sinai mountain and St. Catherine monastery are among the top visited tourist destination in Sharm El Sheikh and from ten kilometers from the St. Catherine monastery there is beautiful place in Sinai known as Blue Desert, or Blue Valley. This amazing Blue Desert or Blue Valley attracts a lot of visitors every year towards it and there are many of people finds it one of the best places visited by them. You can easily reach this place from road starting form tomb of Sheikh Nabi Sala or the road that takes you to Wadi Feiran. The name Blue Desert, or Blue Valley for the desert came from the number of rocks scattered over about 15 square kilometer and these rocks were painted blue by a artist from Belgium named Jean Vera Me in the year 1980. The rocks were painted blue in commemoration of end of conflict between Egypt and Israel. As per the figures the Belgian artist used about 10 tons to turn the entire desert into a stunning Blue Desert, or Blue Valley. It is one of the most amazing valley you will ever get a to see in your life and hence it is a magnificent valley of Sinai Peninsula. The development of Blue Desert, or Blue Valley was done with kind permission of late President Anwar El Sadat. The intentions for the development of Blue Desert, or Blue Valley were to send a message of peace and prosperity after the end of war between Israel and Egypt. But now it has become a major tourist destination and people from very part of the world travel here to see the amazing work of the great Belgian artist. This surely is an amazing piece of art and ability, which crafted the desert into a magnificent Blue Desert, or Blue Valley. The prominence of Blue Desert, or Blue Valley is spread all over the world and for the people visiting Egypt for the very first time this is like a wonder and it relay is amazing to see that. Easy to reach the Blue Desert, or Blue Valley is always visited by a number of visitors from Sinai Peninsula and people finds it really amazing to see it with there eyes. So if you are also on a visit to Sinai Peninsula then visit the Blue Desert, or Blue Valley and you surely will feel amazing.





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