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Sharm El Sheikh isn't just for beach bunnies and culture vultures. Once the sun goes down, Sharm El Sheikh lively resorts spring into life with bars and night-clubs, discotheques and casinos, all open from sundown to sunrise or even 24 hours a day. Cosmopolitan Sharm el Shiekh has the lions share of night-clubs and bars, with all their international hotels competing to put on the most spectacular shows.

If you want to hit the dance floor, you'll be looking for discotheques. But if you'd rather let someone else do the dancing for you, go to a night-club. They entertain you with their live shows while you eat, drink and chat the night away.

But it's not all noise and mayhem. If your idea of night-life is more cultural, you can go cruising down the Nile at sunset or beneath the glittering stars. Otherwise, you can immerse yourself in Egypt's traditional coffee-house culture by sampling a fruity, bubbly shisha pipe or by tasting sumptuous Egyptian and Lebanese dishes.

The larger hotels in Sharm El Sheikh offer nightly programmes of entertainment to suit all tastes. For a more cosmopolitan night out, Naama Bay is a lively centre packed with bars, clubs and restaurants. The atmosphere here is fun and relaxed, and the visitor may choose to dance until dawn, sip cocktails under the stars or wander through the quaint narrow alleyways and pick up a few souvenirs and local crafts at the colourful market stalls.

Little Buddha opens early in the evening as a bar and restaurant and serves the best cocktails in Sharm. This is a must for the sophisticated holidaymaker who wants to party in Sharm. After 11.00pm the upstairs of little Buddha turns into one of the best nightclubs in Sharm. Party into the early hours in this impressive venue.

Pacha BusStop - Pacha Clubs can be visited in London, Ibiza and other European centres but there is nowhere as special as Pacha Sharm. This outstanding venue hosts many VIP parties and boasts Ministry of Sound nights a couple of times a week. Bus Stop is a nightclub within a club playing a variety of more middle of the road dance music and is open every night.

There are many other superb places to venture out to including Blackhouse nightclub, The Salsa Bar, Hard Rock Cafe all in Naama Bay or The Phoenix Bar and The Tavern Bar in Hadaba. Terrazina is a bar on the beach near the Old Town which hosts daytime and night time beach parties. During the day you can swim, eat, drink and dance and at night when the divers return the area becomes one big beach party.

The Havana Bar - Hilton Fayrouz is a very nice place to have a drink and people watch. It is situated on the sea front at Naama Bay by the promenade. The Havana Bar is like an Oriental garden with plants, waterfalls and little bridges. Sip one of the delicious fruit juices and watch the world go by. DO NOT miss the lovely Bedouin Bars that you can find throughout Sharm El Sheikh. Sit and have a drink, or a coffee and try the local Shisha pipes. Shishas are fruit flavoured tobacco pipes and are great fun.