If
you have time, go up the coast from Sharm to Dahab, a Thailand-themed
place with a number of backpacker hotels and restaurants. In addition to banana pancakes and apple-sheeshan (water pipe), so focus divers where the Blue Hole. This infamous divers is a gaping hole that leads straight down into a muddy pit and reaches down to 130 meters.
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| Sharm el Sheihk |
Written by DN's travel editor
QUESTION:
We will travel to Egypt in the winter, mainly for diving. We are going to both Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh. Which dive sites you can recommend?
Krister
ANSWER:
Both Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh are charter cities with good service for divers. But their charm attracts different kinds of people, and experienced divers happy to tell you about their favorites.
Hurghada
is composed of an enormous expansion of the extensive tourist
facilities in the concrete in the north-south along the Red Sea coast. The
resort was established precisely because diving in the area is so
fantastically well, even if reefs in recent years is suffering from
erosion and coral bleaching. In comparison to the more polished Sharm, so you know how old Hurghada is, and especially Russian families like instead.
Off the coast of Hurghada lies Giftun Islands, a few islands that you can go to the dive boat and divers suit with decent or great experience. They are surrounded by a number of spectacular reefs thronging with life, such as Hamden, Banana Reef, Sha'ab Sabrina, Erg Somaya and Sha'ab turf. Depths ranging from 5 to 30 meters which means that you are able to do really long dives.
QUESTION:
We will travel to Egypt in the winter, mainly for diving. We are going to both Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh. Which dive sites you can recommend?
Krister
ANSWER:
Both Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh are charter cities with good service for divers. But their charm attracts different kinds of people, and experienced divers happy to tell you about their favorites.
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| Hurghada |
Off the coast of Hurghada lies Giftun Islands, a few islands that you can go to the dive boat and divers suit with decent or great experience. They are surrounded by a number of spectacular reefs thronging with life, such as Hamden, Banana Reef, Sha'ab Sabrina, Erg Somaya and Sha'ab turf. Depths ranging from 5 to 30 meters which means that you are able to do really long dives.
Sharm is shamelessly glittery and glamorous, with a growing number of world-class hotels that are crowded on the beach plots. Not
unlike Las Vegas attracts so this desert oasis many wealthy tourists,
but if you do your research and put some time looking around, so you can
make a good deal.
The coast around Sharm include Ras Mohammed National Park, which could be the world's most spectacular coral reefs. There are over 100 different fish species, including hammerheads, manta rays, whale sharks and other species that divers often want to see, but rarely do. Not forgetting the Thistlegorm, a legendary wrecks from World War II that was discovered by Jacques Cousteau 1956th
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| Ras Mohammed |
The coast around Sharm include Ras Mohammed National Park, which could be the world's most spectacular coral reefs. There are over 100 different fish species, including hammerheads, manta rays, whale sharks and other species that divers often want to see, but rarely do. Not forgetting the Thistlegorm, a legendary wrecks from World War II that was discovered by Jacques Cousteau 1956th
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| Dahab |
