Coral by The Sea Hotel

... and where I want to go. If anything at all. I will be staying at a small hotel called Cabinas Guarana, a small property up the road from the beach that is owned by an Italian couple. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From an ...

... contrasts with the sand which is gold. Dahab means gold in Arabic. It's not too hot because a clean air breeze always blows off the sea. We immediately felt rejuvenated here. It was super sweet (have i been talking to too many Yanks?) to ...

... was cooked on board the boat and it was the best diving meal either of us has ever had. Back on shore again, we went down to the hotel salon and got our hair cut. After months of dust and sand, my hair was a knotted mess. I merely wanted a simple trim ...

... to the sky. Yet if I turned back over and looked down, I found out that I hadn't moved from when I turned onto my back. The same coral was at eye level towards the shore (we did shore diving) and the same red fish was still hiding in it. All too soon ...

... areas in the world for snorkelling and scuba diving from what I had read and heard, so I couldn’t miss two opportunities to see the coral and fish. We got to the site and had about an hour and a half to snorkel. It was amazing. You can literally ...

... home to see if any of the photos are worth putting on here.  Tomorrow we catch a bus to Cairo (9 hours) where we have booked a 4* hotel by the airport, just incase. We can't believe that this time next week we will be in East Africa, probably ...

... a ton of reefs in the Red Sea! Tiran Island has this huge reef just off the coast with crystal clear waters and very colourful coral. The fish were a bit small, but Vivian and I managed to see a green reef stingray with purple spots all over its body. ...

... shared bathroom area and as it is on the top level of the hotel you get good views of both the mountains behind and over the sea to Saudi Arabia - just 17km or more from Dahab. 10th - In the morning I undertook a Navigation dive at Banner Fish Bay, where ...

... back on the road and off to the beach.  It’s a short drive (c2 hours) and before we know it we can smell the sea air as we pile off the truck into the Seven Heaven Hotel.  Unfortunately not quite heaven more old battered rooms, hundreds of ...

... a World War II wreck in the middle of the red sea. Sunk by German bomber planes, SS Thistlegorm has lain at the bottom of the sea for over sixty years.  Much of the original cargo still remains, such as tanks, motorcycles, jeeps, bombs, steam ...

... is simply wonderful with beautiful intact and healthy appearing coral reefs with huge schools of brilliant fish in every nook and cranny of the coral. The water and air is surprisingly cool. We have had evening temps to 70 and the water is 77-79. We have ...

... and the Aussies persuaded me to give the snorkel a go, and what an amazing world I then came face to face with under the sea, the most exquisitely beautiful fish so fearlessly close to me as I swam by their sides. At some point the shallow corals ended in ...

... aqua coastline. Dahab is the Byron Bay of the Red Sea. Extremely laid back, lots of places to eat, and you just sit on cushions by the sea and relax. We went snorkelling in the Blue Hole. Which I think there may only be a few in the world. It’s a ...

... from Ishmailiya, came over for a while seeking out Olivier, then chatting to me and Ellie instead. He was based at the Christina Hotel where he rented out bikes and snorkelling gear. Some French people from back in France also turned up, again looking ...

... our stuff upstairs in a restaurant with matresses and rugs on the floor. We got our masks, snorkels and flippers and jumped in the sea. From the second floor you could see why the area was called the blue hole. The coral was only a foot under the ...

... even one only the year before last.  There is an archway from the hole into the sea 52 metres down which is 26m through to the sea.  Scuba divers come here to dive down the hole and out through the arch to the sea, but it is extremely difficult ...

... felt really icky, so we took showers and went swimming in the beautiful pool, which was surrounded by palm trees and looked out over the sea. However, when I first got in, I forget I actually had to work to stay afloat, so I sunk right down to the ...

... we wore towels down to the edge of the water as every single pair of eyes on that beach was focused on us. I walked into the sea put my flippers on with Garrett and Haley helping me every step of the way. It was an experience all right- especially since ...

... the same. So we bypassed Jerash in favor of Petra and the desert to the South. By the time we arrived in Wadi Musa, the tiny hotel town outside of Petra, it was evening and too late to pay the expensive entrance fee to the site. Our hostel's owner, ...

... they feed they perform back flips, driving the small plankton into every more dense patches and earning themselves the nickname the "ballerinas' of the sea". In doing so they exposure their white underside which flashes clearly and often very close to the ...

... do it whenever I get the chance again. In the afternoon the red snapper come to the shallow beach to feed. We walked into the sea up to our knees and these huge snapper would swim right through our legs and around us. We could have caught them with our ...