Tour Details
  • Starts in: Cairo / Ends in: Cairo
  • Departs: Any day of the year - excluding peak holiday periods
  • No local payment required
  • Breakfast:2, Lunch: 0, Dinner: 0
  • Hotel Rating: 3 star
  • Tour Guide: Yes - on day 2
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PADI Learn to Dive - 10 days

The first level of PADI Scuba Certification - your ticket to the underwater world! Five days tuition including academics, skill practice and actual scuba diving in open water and a chance to visit the pyramids of Giza upon arrival in Cairo.

Day 1: Cairo
Welcome to Egypt and the start of your holiday. Included transfer from Cairo airport, hotel check in. Overnight - Cairo
A group in Dahab learning to dive in a pool
Day 2: Cairo - Dahab
Cairo - Dahab. This morning we venture to the Giza Plateau to explore the great pyramids and Sphinx in all their ancient glory. Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus are the sole survivors of the Seven Ancient Wonders. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are long gone, but the enduring pyramids have been attracting and mesmerising the hungry eyes of travellers since ancient times. Cheops (Khufu) is the oldest and biggest. It stood 146.5m high when it was completed in 2600BC. After 46 centuries, its height has only reduced by 9m! For a real Arabian experience, consider haggling for a camel ride. This evening we transfer to the Cairo bus station for our overnight bus to Dahab. Overnight - Bus (B)
PADI Learn to Dive - 10 days Go Guide : :Check out the go guide for details of the tour, info on visas, climate, money, what to bring and more!
Days 3 - 8: Dahab
Arrive Dahab, transfer to your hotel and check in. Later today we head down to our dive centre for introductions and start of your course. The next 5 days will be filled with a combination of theory and practical water sections. Diving in Dahab is essentially shore diving and some of the best places to practice those skills are only metres from our dive school’s front door. Overnight - Dahab
A group of Dahab divers in a zodiac on the Red Sea
Day 9: Dahab - Cairo
Dahab - Cairo. Travel north-east by road we leave Dahab. Arrive Cairo and hotel check in. Overnight - Cairo
Day 10: Cairo
Onward transfer to Cairo airport. (B)

CLASSIC DAHAB DIVE SITES
Diving in Dahab is essentially shore-diving. With few exceptions, you'll be driven by jeep along the coast to 'gear-up' at waters edge to start your dive. Dahab offers around 30 dive sites. Some of the best dive sites are located just a few miles north of Dahab and offer easy to relatively easy shore access.

Eel Garden - Popular site for learner divers. Maximum depth is 17m with a sandy bottom. Good also for snorkellers.

The Light House - Located just offshore at the Lighthouse in Dahab Bay, this site features a sloping reef extending north.

The Bells - A cliff dive only for the relatively experienced. A true vertical wall, full of overhangs and fissures, with lots of swim-throughs and cavelets.

Blue Hole - A dive site with the greatest attraction lying not in the blue hole itself, but on the rich sloping coral reef garden on the outer lip of the hole. Entry to the site is through a large lagoon in the reeftop! This lagoon is the 'blue hole'. Strict depth limit of 30m, except for those with technical diving certification. Popular spot also for snorkellers.

Canyon - Takes its name from a long, narrow canyon which runs north to south from the shallow reef just offshore to depths of around 50m on the reef slope further out. Access to the site is through a shallow 3m lagoon a little way from the shoreline.