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Soft coral and its shoals of anthias — what you come here for.
  • A sea fan spread across the drop-off.
  • A green turtle grazing the seagrass, on pale sand.

Marsa Alam & the Red Sea · Marsa Alam and Hamata

The southern dive camps

Wooden huts by the reef, hours from the nearest hotel.

€€ Mid-range

South of Marsa Alam, a handful of dive camps occupy isolated bays: huts, solar panels, a compressor, and the reef thirty metres away. The opposite of a resort, and it has become the favourite format of divers who return every year.

The extra bit

Book full board: there is nothing for tens of kilometres around.

Know before you go

Limited electricity, patchy signal and long transfers from the airport: the price of the quiet.

Directions

Southern coast, between Marsa Alam and Hamata, Red Sea

Directions

In the same spirit

  • Hamata and its islands

    A fishing harbour south of Marsa Alam: mangrove on the shore, islands a few kilometres out.

    Marsa Alam & the Red SeaHamata, Marsa Alam

    €€ Mid-rangeDiving / snorkelling

  • Wadi el-Gemal National Park

    Mountains, gravel plains and acacias south of Marsa Alam. Not a place for an ordinary car.

    Marsa Alam & the Red SeaMarsa Alam

    €€€ High endPaid entry

  • Ain Sokhna

    The Gulf of Suez, about two hours from Cairo: freighters on the horizon and a day by the sea.

    Marsa Alam & the Red SeaAin Sokhna

    €€ Mid-rangeWhere locals go