Dahab + Mini Safari

4 Nights Dahab

3 Nights Liveaboard

Highlights

The Town of Dahab

Low-key, laid-back and low-rise, Dahab is the Middle East’s Hippy town and many travelers who booked for a few days, end up staying for weeks!

Dahab Diving

Dahab Reefs 

• Bells to Blue Hole 

One of the premier dives sites here in Dahab is Bells, a spectacular wall dive of amazing beauty. Bells is a large vein of rock that has eroded out leaving a deep gash in the reef that drops to 45m, formed where a deep groove cuts into the reef top just North of the Blue Hole. The groove of  Bells breaches the reef table, and a clear blue pool is formed; this is where the dive is started. As you drop through this pool, you will emerge on the reef wall at about 12m. The groove disappears to re-emerge deeper at 28m. The open water here is some of the clearest, deepest blue you will see. The wall itself descends down into the blue to over 200m which only adds to the anticipation experienced when emerging through the chimney. It is vertical and in parts overhanging, with a rich growth of black corals and sea fans.

The dive ends as you cross over a shallow saddle into the Blue Hole.

• Dahab Canyon

The Dahab Canyon is the classic canyon, an essential dive for all fanatics of caves and cavern diving. The Canyon itself is quite a phenomenon. Up to 10m high and virtually closed over, it snakes its way up from the depths, to emerge in a large glassfish filled coral dome. The Canyon dive site offers an easy entry and exit point through a shallow, sandy lagoon. This leads to the beautiful Coral Gardens inhabited by Butterfly fishes, Unicorn fishes, Octopi, Puffer fish and of course Red Sea Anthias. The Canyon itself is positioned about 5 minutes North-East from the exit of the lagoon. The entry to the Canyon is done through it’s largest point at about 20 meters. The progression through the Canyon is easy and the light effect caused by the sun rays is fantastic.

• Coral Gardens

This dive site is located next to the Canyon with the same entry and exit. Instead of heading North as you exit the lagoon you will go South towards this beautiful, rounded wall. You will make your way South along the wall with the clear blue water to one side where you may see one of the large Napoleon fish swim by. As you shallow up you will swim through a sandy maze with hard and soft corals. This site is great for underwater photography.

• Eel Garden

A truly spectacular site for coral, this site is very exposed and can only be dived on calm days. Entry is via a small winding lagoon that leads out onto a vast sand bank which is covered in Garden Eels. As we cross the sand bank the eels retreat into their holes and pop back up again behind us. As we come back along the reef edge, you’ll see some of the brightest and most colorful coral in Dahab.

• Lighthouse 

Situated at the Northern end of the Dahab Bay, is home to the confined water training area due to its sandy slopes and gentle drop off. The Lighthouse offers a number of different dives depending on the route chosen, and the sprawling coral gardens offer an abundance of marine life and vividly colorful corals, that extend far from the shore. This site is made up of a large rocky wall that wraps around the point whilst heading North to the Eel Garden. With varying depths ranging down to 60m plus makes this site suitable for all divers. Larger aquatic creatures, alongside a spectacular variety of corals, make it a very popular dive site. The Lighthouse is perfect for beginners, this easy to enter site still has a fantastic range of coral and fish life and also makes an ideal first technical dive in Dahab to brush up on buoyancy and equipment configuration.

• Islands

This site is a favorite among guides and guests alike. A coral maze which truly shows the Red Sea coral at its best. Three giant pinnacles have grown together over the ages to create a playground of valleys and lagoons full of every reef fish you can imagine. One of the lagoons is home to thousands of juvenile barracuda, with trevally and large snapper always in attendance guarding their larder! An earthquake 10 years ago collapsed huge sections of the reef exposing holes and cracks that are rapidly filling up with renewed coral growth. This dive site never disappoints and as one of the shallower dives it is accessible to all certification levels.

• Um Sid 

One of the sites in the Southern Oasis and is a dive guide favorite. The reef here juts out quite a way and drops down to a sandy slope covered in Garden Eels, the best dive route is to enter on the right-hand side of the reef and keep the reef to your left shoulder, looking out for Blue Spotted Rays, Nudibranchs and don’t forget to look out into the blue for Spotted Eagle Rays!

4 Day Mini Safari Thistlegorm – Ras Mohamed