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El Quseir, Red Sea and Middle East
El Quseir, in the southern Red Sea offers diving holidays with unexplored virgin reefs, an excellent house reef and BSAC and PADI dive centres. Only 2 hours south of Hurghada, El Quseir, the oldest port in this part of the Red Sea, offers a totally different feel to the hustle and bustle of Hurghada. It’s remoteness and lack of development are what makes it special. This is an excellent location in the south Red Sea where you can completely wind down and concentrate on the underwater world.
Diving
The area has some fabulous diving with relatively unexplored virgin reefs. There is diving straight from the house reef, beautiful shoreline reefs and off-shore reefs all within easy reach by dedicated day boats or jeeps. Glorious coral walls, stunning gardens of soft corals, the copious amount of marine life, turtles and napoleaon wrasse makes this an unrivalled spot. Photographers will enjoy the abundant of macro life in the sheltered sights. Day boat dive excursions are organised to the Southern Red Sea dive sites including Elphinstone Reef with sharks and Salem Express Wreck.
Culture and Activities
El Quseir is a relatively undiscovered by both tourists and divers. If you enjoy a quiet location with uncrowded diving this is for you. Our excellent dive centre offers some 30 possible dive sites to explore from you base in El Quseir. Most of the diving is shore diving, sights are accessible by jeep, truck, Zodiak or a day boat. Explore the numerous, pristine coral gardens, off shore ergs, pinnacles and sea grass meadows plus extensive cavern systems. There is an excellent diversity of marine life including moray, blue spotted stingrays, lion fish, porcupine fish, crocodile fish, squirrel fish, sea snakes as well as large pelagics and occasionally white tip or guitar shark.


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Best Time: Year round Average Air temps: 21-40°C Average Water temps: 21-30°C Visibility: 30-100m Top Dive Sites: Sharm Fugani, Ras Mahaleg & Erg Malek. Excursion available to Elphinstone, Salem Express & Abu Dabab. More Dive Sites> Dive Centres: Sub Aqua Dive Centre > Superb house reef, shallow lagoon. Pharaoh Dive Club > PADI & BSAC shore & boat diving for all levels. |
Great Reasons to Dive in El Quseir, Red Sea
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