Right on the border, TABA is in the throes of development, with cafés, travel agencies and shops springing up on the Egyptian side. It is still dominated by the deluxe Hilton Taba Hotel (tel 069/530-140, fax 02/578-7044; US$108–217/£E500–1000) which, despite the problems in Israel, continues to pull in plenty of Israeli visitors, thanks to its casino. It took ten years of bitter negotiations before international arbitration finally returned this disputed border enclave to Egypt in 1989. Hitherto, Israel had claimed that Taba lay outside the jurisdiction of the Camp David Accords, and … more »
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Taba is a small Egyptian village near the northern tip of the Gulf of... more »
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