Taba

Taba is a town in the South Sinai of Egypt, near the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba. It is the location of one of Egypt's busiest border crossings and is the northernmost resort of Egypt's Red Sea Riviera. In 1906 Taba became the center of a territorial dispute between the British Empire and the Ottoman Empire known as the Taba Crisis: although the Sinai Peninsula was nominally Ottoman it had been largely administered by Egypt, except for the Aqaba region, which had been officially under Ottoman administration since 1892. Israel reoccupied Taba after the Six-Day War in 1967, and a 400-room hotel was subsequently built in the town. Its climate is hot desert (BWh), as in the rest of Egypt.