Marsa Alam and Hurghada

[Last updated: 23-Jul-2022]

When I started planning my journey around the world in 1993, I wanted to visit Cairo and the pyramids, as my first destination. However, that soon changed in favour of Hong Kong - after it was announced that the then British government was going to hand the state back to China (in 1997).

More recently, during a holiday to the Maldives (in Oct/Nov-2017), a few fellow divers mentioned (and suggested) that diving in the Red Sea was amazing. So, early 2018, I decided to visit the Egyptian Red Sea in Aug-2018. But it soon became clear that seven or eight months was a long time to wait. Thus, at the beginning of Mar-2018, I contacted Blue O Two (BO2), and asked if there were any places available on the Deep South Liveaboard in Apr-2018. Much to my delight, there was; six in actual fact! Thus, I decided to take one of the six, and booked myself onto that liveaboard.

About two and a half years after that trip (in Oct-2018), I was visiting my local dive centre (Ocean Turtle Diving (OTD) in Basingstoke). During conversation, I was informed that OTD, in association with BO2, had arranged a private week's diving to the northern part of the Red Sea in Mar-2022. Up to that point, twelve divers had already shown interest. Shortly afterwards, I became the thirteenth! Lucky for some?

The following links describe my different Egyptian experiences. Note that it was planned to have separate pages for each of the three activities. However, due to unplanned and unexpected events during the northern holiday, and some bad weather, and very few photos and videos were taken throughout the whole period, the two planned pages (for Mar-2022) have been merged into one, with their individual links.

Both trips (to the South and the North) were aboard M/Y Blue Horizon.

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