Nuweiba lies on a large flood plain measuring about 40 km2 (15 sq mi),sandwiched between the Sinai mountains and the Gulf of Aqaba, and is located some 150 km (90 mi) north of Sharm el Sheikh, 465 km (290 mi) southeast from Cairo and 70 km (40 mi) south of the Israel–Egypt border separating Taba and Eilat. It is believed by many to be the site of the Exodus account of ancient Israelites crossing the Red Sea.
Nuweiba consists of four main areas: Nuweiba Tarabin, Nuweiba Town, The Dunes, and Nuweiba Muzeina. Nuweiba Tarabin is the northern area, and is made up of a thick grove of palm trees, a shallow bay, and the ruins of a Turkish fort. Inside the ruins is a well that has historically been used by the Bedouins as a source of fresh water for hundreds of years.
Nuweiba Tarabin was settled mostly in the 1980s when members of the Tarabin tribe residing in the area north of Nuweiba permanently moved into the area typically occupied in the summers, and began building simple accommodations, which gradually turned into more established camps and huts as tourism picked up
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