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Sharm el Sheikh: Quad Bike, Camel & Desert Stargazing with Dinner

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Duration5h

GroupUp to 30

LanguagesEN · IT

PickupAt your hotel

Five Desert Activities in One Evening, Starting at 3pm from Your Hotel

You ride a quad bike for thirty minutes into the desert, then switch to camel for a slower fifteen-minute crossing, arrive at a Bedouin camp for a traditional dinner and live show, and finish the evening with telescope stargazing and constellation lessons from a guide trained in astronomy. Hotel pickup at 3pm and return transport are included, along with all meals, drinks, and equipment rental.

Step-by-step itinerary

Pick up from hotel at 3:00 pm
Drive 20 minutes to quad center
Receive bike instructions and safety briefing
Ride quad bike for 30 minutes
Camel ride for 15 minutes with Bedouins
Ride quad bike 15 minutes to big tent
Enjoy oriental show and fresh dinner
Explore desert constellations with guide
Look through telescope at stars and planets
Return to hotel

The Experience

A guide hands you a scarf and shows you how to wrap it around your face, then walks you through the quad bike controls — safety first, then throttle. You're standing at the center thirty minutes after pickup, helmet on, ready to ride into the desert outside Sharm el Sheikh. The quad takes about thirty minutes to cover the first stretch, and the ground beneath you shifts from packed sand to softer dunes. It's not a race; it's a controlled pace that lets you feel the landscape change.

After the bikes come to a stop, Bedouins are waiting with camels. Fifteen minutes on camel back, moving slower now, gives you a different angle on the same terrain — the kind of shift that makes you notice what you missed at speed. Then back on the quad for another fifteen minutes to reach the main camp, a larger tent set up with cushions, low tables, and a fire already burning. This is where the show happens: traditional music and dance while the kitchen brings out fresh dinner — grilled meats, vegetables, bread, all with vegetarian options available. Tea and soft drinks flow throughout, and the pace slows enough that you can actually taste the food and talk to the people around you.

As the light drains from the sky, your guide takes the group out into the dark desert with a telescope and a map of the night. Orion's Belt, Polaris, Ursa Minor, Ursa Major — the guide points them out and explains what you're looking at: which stars are actually planets, how far away they are, what the shapes mean. You take turns looking through the telescope, and the magnification makes it real in a way that pointing at the sky never does. Saturn appears as a small disk with rings. The guide answers questions — "How do I find Saturn on a night I'm home?" — and by the end of it, you've got a framework for reading the sky yourself. The whole experience runs about six to seven hours from pickup to return, and you're back at your hotel with the desert still in your clothes and the constellations still in your head.

What’s included

Hotel pickup and return transport in an air-conditioned vehicle.
quad bike rental with full safety instruction.
camel ride experience with Bedouin handlers.
traditional Bedouin dinner with fresh grilled food and vegetarian options.
live show at the desert camp.
tea and soft drinks throughout the evening.
use of large telescopes for stargazing.
constellation mapping and astronomy guidance from a professional guide.
bottled water during dinner.

Good to know

Easy physical levelNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditionsNot for back problems

Operated by Egypt Stargazing

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to pack multiple desert experiences into one evening without arranging separate activities, transport, or timing — the fixed schedule and single pickup handle all the logistics, and the five-activity structure means you get variety without the coordination.