Kaleidoscope of colour

You stand over your final putt, sizing it up when a glint of colour catches your eye. Lifting your gaze, you see the azure waters of the Red Sea stretch out before you to distant mountains now tinged with pink from the setting sun. Directly behind you, the hunched shoulders of the Sinai Mountains have turned crimson, while all around the pastel shades of the stylish resort hotels are dissolving into a kaleidoscope of colour in the failing light levels. This is Taba Heights, one of Egypt’s newest courses which has already carved out quite a name for itself, thanks in part to its dramatic setting at the top of the Gulf of Aqaba, looking across the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel. It feels more like golf in paradise.