Red Sea Coral Reef World Capital, Mount Sinai Sunrise & Blue Hole Freediving Mecca
📍 Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt📅 3-day itinerary
Where two of the world's most extraordinary dive sites — the 80 m Shark Reef wall at Ras Mohammed with seasonal hammerhead shark schools, and the 130 m Blue Hole at Dahab where the arch at 52 m has ended more diver lives than any other single dive site — are within 100 km of the world's oldest continuously operating Christian monastery at the foot of the mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments, in a resort city built on a Bedouin fishing village where the Red Sea's 30-40 m visibility far exceeds any other major reef system on Earth.
The Vertical Coral Wall Dropping 80 Metres from 3 Metres Below the Surface at the Point Where the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba Meet & The Cargo Ship Sunk in 1980 Whose Toilet Bowls and Bathtubs Are Now Encrusted with Twenty Years of Living Coral
The Living Bramble Bush Believed to Be the Descendant of the One in Which God Appeared to Moses — Growing in the World's Oldest Continuously Operating Monastery Since 337 AD & The 130-Metre Circular Blue Hole Where the Underwater Arch at 52 Metres Has More Recorded Diver Fatalities Than Any Other Single Dive Site on Earth
The 700-Metre Sandstone Slot Canyon That Narrows to One Metre Wide With Walls of White, Yellow, Red, Purple and Black Mineral Layers & The Jebeliya Bedouin Who Are Descendants of 6th-Century Balkan Christians Brought to Serve a Byzantine Monastery Who Converted to Islam in the 7th Century