(Egypt, Marsa Alam) / (Gothenburg) See the post from the very bottom!

In between, I am still in contact with her. A sympathetic and very intelligent woman.

She was in Egypt on a ship diving.

Your short, very nice travel report, which I am kindly allowed to publish here.

Well worth a read!

On Friday we followed from Frankfurt to Marsa Alam. We arrived there at night and stayed in a hotel in Port Ghalib. We visited the port the next day before we went on to the port in Marsa Alam at around 3 p.m. on Saturday. Port Ghalib is about 15 minutes from the airport and the port of Marsa Alam is about 45 minutes away from there.
And on the way there is nothing more to see than desert.

The “harbor” in Marsa Alam then turned off the road onto a gravel road and then stopped 😂 at the water’s edge, there was a Zodiac ready and the kids who have something to do nearby came running to carry the heavy bags (20kg diving luggage) onto the Zodiac and of course ask 😂 for tips
Then we got into the Zodiac and went on the boat for the next 8 days.

Once on the boat, we handed in our diving documents and checked in and moved into our cabin.

After we got the ok to leave the harbor on Sunday (it had been delayed because it was too stormy)
We went out and had the first two check dives. On the one hand, that we were able to familiarize ourselves with the equipment (some had rental equipment from the boat) and that the guides can assess our skills

The philosophy on liveaboard is “dive eat sleep repeat” and that’s more or less how it was. We had Sunday and Friday with only two dives and Monday to Thursday á four dives. A daily routine looked like this: 6 a.m. getting up, 6.15 a.m. briefing for the dive; dive (in 3 groups each with a guide), then have breakfast and sit down on deck to chill. Then around 10.30 am the next briefing + diving then lunch and chill. Around 2.30 pm the 3rd dive and then snacks, and in the evening from 7.30 pm the last dive of the day, which was already a night dive. Afterwards dinner. And partly between dives and partly during the night the boat continued to the next dive site; we did several dives at individual dive sites.

Since I got a headache on Wednesday, I only did two dives that day and then took 😕 a break all day on Thursday because of a sniffy nose and only did the second dive on Friday.

We dived many great reefs underwater. There were cave dives, wrecks that we looked at and I saw eagle rays and blue-spotted rays, some turtles and of course a lot of colorful fish and corals.

But we also had visits from sharks 🦈 from Tuesday to Thursday
The Silkyshark was always very close. We were also able to see the reef sharks up close and a hammerhead shark from a distance.

On Friday we went back to the harbor, cleaned the equipment and then spent until Saturday morning on the boat before we went back to the hotel in Port Ghalib.

Here is the post where we met.