Diving - one of the main "chips" of tourist Egypt: there are plenty of opportunities for him here, the underwater world is extremely beautiful and diverse - all for acceptable money. Among the best dive sites are: St. John's reef, Big Brother and Little Brother, Ras Mohammed, Thistlegorm, Blue Hole, Canyon, Tiran Island, the uninhabited island of Giftun and Sinai Peninsula.
Reef St. Johns is located near the border with Sudan. At the bottom there is a coral forest growing, tuna and sharks, turtles, manta rays are swimming. With some luck, you can meet a hammerhead fish. When immersing, it is worth to be careful: the reef is drowned one and a half meters below the surface of the water (such reefs in the Red Sea are called habili - the unborn). This reef is usually visited by boats from Marsa-Alam, for diving it requires the certificate PADI Advanced Open Water, underwater visibility - 30 m.
To the Big and Small Brothers (70 km from the shore) it makes sense to go on a dive safari. Corals there grow right at the surface of the water, many leaving for the depth of steep walls and sharks. However, these places are suitable only for experienced divers due to the strong current.
Ras Mohammed is 220 species of coral, a thousand species of fish, shellfish, crayfish, starfish and divers-divers. There is a huge number of dive sites, and the depth of the sea is almost a kilometer. Boats from Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada go here, and for diving, PADI Open Water or Advanced Open Water certification is required.
Dive site "Canyon" near Dahab has long been popular among divers. But few of them know that the best time to dive here is night. It is not dangerous here, the widest and most beautiful place of the Canyon is only 25 m deep.
Blue Hole ("Blue Hole") is also close to Dahab, one of the ten most beautiful diving sites in the world. It is a hollow of 107-meter depth, opening to the surface of the reef at a depth of 58 m. True, it is worth remembering that Blue Hole is also recognized as the most dangerous place for diving: anyone who dares to challenge the Blue Hole will be given serious instruction, and availability of professional dive certificates - strictly required.
The ship "Thistlegorm" with a difficult and beautiful destiny has become today almost the most popular rack in the world. In his time he studied even Jacques-Yves Cousteau. In the role of local attractions are: rusty motorcycles, a cannon, the interior of the ship, as well as barracuda and dolphins.
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From Sharm el-Sheikh organize a trip by boat to the island of Tiran, around which reefs Jackson, Gordon, Woodhouse and Thomas are located: steep walls, seated with bright corals, around which flocks flocks of various fish. There you can meet with manta rays and whale sharks.
Until the uninhabited island of Giftun can be reached during an excursion from Hurghada. In the surrounding area grows a beautiful coral forest inhabited by inhabitants of all colors of the rainbow.
It is worth diving with aqualung in ancient Alexandria. Visibility there is not very good, but it's enough to view the sunken palaces and monuments of the city.
Open Water Diver PADI
Get the certificate of Open Water Diver PADI in Sharm el-Sheikh - in the Red Sea Diving College and in Marsa Alam - in the center of Aquarius. Training is conducted including in Russian.
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