{"id":11254,"date":"2021-04-06T13:33:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T13:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11254"},"modified":"2021-04-06T13:33:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T13:33:49","slug":"the-snow-capped-mountains-a-newly-popular-tourist-destination-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11254","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Snow-Capped&#8221; Mountains: A Newly Popular Tourist Destination in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a country located in northeastern Africa, even rain is a rare phenomenon, not to mention snow, so where did the winter tourist attraction in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/art-and-celebrities\/iryna-bilyk-in-a-vacation-in-egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> come from?<\/p>\n<p>Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 06, 2021 \u2013 Tourism and Travel<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In fact, unusual for warm country plots are reflected in the city of Port Fuad. This Mediterranean port is located on the northern edge of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/international-news\/removing-the-evergreen-container-ship-from-the-shoal-in-the-suez-canal-successfully\/\">Suez Canal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And the &#8220;snow&#8221; hills are salt storages, which are very reminiscent of real <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/transportation\/passengers-leftovers-turned-the-train-into-a-pigsty\/\">mountains<\/a>, which are so great to ride in winter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Egypt&#39;s latest pyramid or just a salt mountain? Either way it looks fun! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Egypt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Egypt<\/a> \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddec <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/43jTgiTu91\">pic.twitter.com\/43jTgiTu91<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nigel J.Hetherington \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa (@Pastpreservers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pastpreservers\/status\/1377662884373786625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the salt mountains of Port Fuad have become a tourist attraction. This happened after numerous photo reports about local winter fun appeared on social networks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Egyptians flock to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Port_Fuad\">Port Fuad<\/a> from around the country to admire the scenery. And some even try to ski and play snowballs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the salt from Port Fuad is transported to colder countries, where it is used as a reagent for melting ice.<\/p>\n<p>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/international-news\/removing-the-evergreen-container-ship-from-the-shoal-in-the-suez-canal-successfully\/\">Removing the Evergreen Container Ship From the Shoal in the Suez Canal Successfully<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a country located in northeastern Africa, even rain is a rare phenomenon, not to mention snow, so where did the winter tourist attraction in Egypt come from? Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 06, 2021 \u2013 Tourism and Travel \u00a0 In fact, unusual for warm country plots are reflected in the city of Port [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[306,356,854,5383,962,5382],"class_list":["post-11254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tourism-and-travel","tag-destination","tag-egypt","tag-snow","tag-snow-capped-mountains","tag-tourism","tag-tourism-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}