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Incredible Vintage Photos Of Sharm El Sheikh In Its Hippie Heyday

This is what a classic summer really looks like.

Staff Writer

Incredible Vintage Photos Of Sharm El Sheikh In Its Hippie Heyday

Remember that time when camping was cool, and not considered a downgrade to peasant life? That time when Volkswagen camper vans were the coolest thing and bringing your rubber dinghy was considered a treat? Of course you don’t. It was another Sharm and another Egypt back in the late 1970s, when only a few resorts were starting to pop up, there were no such things as chaisse longe, and hippie tents were sensation the beach.