mikelegurra
Contributor
back in lisbon and wishing i was still in dahab.
a week goes by and you don't even notice, when you're having fun.
diving and spending the rest of the day loafing in the pillow stuffed restaurants seems like a very nice way to spend time and... it is!
we dived the lighthouse, eel garden, the islands, the canyon, bells to blue hole and a couple of dives at gabr el bint.
felt sorry to be OW only and not to be able to do the inside of the canyon but it's promised that we'll be back in a couple of months to do the AOW and give another shot at the canyon.
bells to blue hole is also an amazing dive, with the endless wall on one side, and blue on the other... if felt really funny to come up, inside the blue hole, and see a dozen japanese snorklers, fully dressed (skirts and all), fining for their lifes, scared of the mighty blue hole... i even thought about pulling some fins, just for laughs...
gabr el bint was also very cool and, since almost no one was there, we had the whole place for ourselves...
we (wife and i) did all our diving with poseidon divers and we'll do it every time we're in dahab.
the staff was great from the first email contact through the end of our time there. well kept equipment, highly professional staff and a very good location make this a perfect dive center. if this sounds like advertising or marketing... they deserve it. they take the time to make you feel at home and there's no rush to do anything. just take your time and relax...
i had never felt this well treated before.
they will definitely get our business when we're back on the red sea.
dahab itself is a very small town and there's not a lot to do besides the previously mentioned activities. if you're not diving, you're sitting on a pillow, reading a book, looking at the sea.
i tried some of the restaurants that fellow board members spoke about in a previous thread where i asked for directions, and some others. lakhbatita should get a mention because the restaurant looks quite different from all the others, with all sort of antique stuff everywhere (we were told lakhbatita means mess) and the food they serve, real egyptian, tastes like a piece of heaven after a day spent bellow the surface.
final note: spent the last day in sharm, waiting for the flight back home, and i cannot understand sharm! it's a mess! i don't know the dive sites there (which are supposed to be great) but the thousands of people walking around, the buildings las-vegas-style, the hundreds of shops and the glowing plastic palm trees (true) made me feel tired after 10 minutes and i wished i stayed in dahab a couple more hours...
some pictures (not very good though) at www.pbase.com/maiquethai/dahab
a week goes by and you don't even notice, when you're having fun.
diving and spending the rest of the day loafing in the pillow stuffed restaurants seems like a very nice way to spend time and... it is!
we dived the lighthouse, eel garden, the islands, the canyon, bells to blue hole and a couple of dives at gabr el bint.
felt sorry to be OW only and not to be able to do the inside of the canyon but it's promised that we'll be back in a couple of months to do the AOW and give another shot at the canyon.
bells to blue hole is also an amazing dive, with the endless wall on one side, and blue on the other... if felt really funny to come up, inside the blue hole, and see a dozen japanese snorklers, fully dressed (skirts and all), fining for their lifes, scared of the mighty blue hole... i even thought about pulling some fins, just for laughs...
gabr el bint was also very cool and, since almost no one was there, we had the whole place for ourselves...
we (wife and i) did all our diving with poseidon divers and we'll do it every time we're in dahab.
the staff was great from the first email contact through the end of our time there. well kept equipment, highly professional staff and a very good location make this a perfect dive center. if this sounds like advertising or marketing... they deserve it. they take the time to make you feel at home and there's no rush to do anything. just take your time and relax...
i had never felt this well treated before.
they will definitely get our business when we're back on the red sea.
dahab itself is a very small town and there's not a lot to do besides the previously mentioned activities. if you're not diving, you're sitting on a pillow, reading a book, looking at the sea.
i tried some of the restaurants that fellow board members spoke about in a previous thread where i asked for directions, and some others. lakhbatita should get a mention because the restaurant looks quite different from all the others, with all sort of antique stuff everywhere (we were told lakhbatita means mess) and the food they serve, real egyptian, tastes like a piece of heaven after a day spent bellow the surface.
final note: spent the last day in sharm, waiting for the flight back home, and i cannot understand sharm! it's a mess! i don't know the dive sites there (which are supposed to be great) but the thousands of people walking around, the buildings las-vegas-style, the hundreds of shops and the glowing plastic palm trees (true) made me feel tired after 10 minutes and i wished i stayed in dahab a couple more hours...
some pictures (not very good though) at www.pbase.com/maiquethai/dahab
