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GETTING THERE

Daily flights with Egypt Air to Cairo, overnight Cairo and then fly Cairo to Port Sudan with Sudan Airways. Another overnight in Cairo is required on the return journey.

SUDAN VISA .

Visa's a very difficult to obtain without the assitance of a Sudanese ground agent and therefore we will arrange this on your behalf

CUSTOMS.

Alcohol is strictly forbidden. Everything is checked double and triple, e.g. our luggage was searched three times. But the officials are very friendly, so just be patient.


WEATHER

The best time to visit Sudan is between August and June, July to September is to hot and humid. The sea is general 'pancake' like - flat and warm!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sudan Red Sea liveaboard scuba diving holidaysThe Sudanese Red Sea offers the best diving in the Red Sea - of this there is no question! Wrecks, drop-offs and spectacular caves are just some of the attractions on offer for the serious diver and underwater photographer. Sharks and Mantas in unbelievable numbers are encountered in a technicolour marine environment, made all the more dazzling thanks to unsurpassed visibility. Coral pinnacle formations rising from great depths attract fish life in vast numbers, including large pelagic species.

Sailing the waters of the Sudan from Port Sudan will take you to the very best dive spots in the Red Sea. Although the diving in Egypt is excellent nothing can compare to the awesome spectacle that awaits you here!

The diving in Sudan is dominated by the Italian and German market. Although the dive guides do have good English it may be useful to brush up on a few cheeky Italian phrases!

Getting there: a flight with Egypt Air to Cairo departing on Friday is followed by an overnight stay before connecting with a Sudan Airways flight to Port Sudan on the Saturday. The safari boats aligned their schedule accordingly and take care of the transfer from/to the airport.

DIVING IN SUDAN - A PERSONAL ACCOUNT

Gregor Wittreck is a regular client on board the Felicidad II. A few extracts from his log book sum up the diving experience that awaits you in Sudan:

Sudan Red Sea liveaboard scuba diving holidays" The water will be warm (min. 28-30 °C), a 3mm suite is more than enough. The crew stows away 15L steel tanks mounted with BCD and regulator in the tender. Now it's up to us to climb down the ladder to the Zodiacs.

10 minutes later we jump at the south most point of Sanganeb. From the reef top it's 15 meters to the plateau. 6 Grey reef sharks are cruising the plateau. Don't stay too long, this is just the welcome, let's follow Federico - no risk to oversee his bright yellow suit. On our way to the edge of the plateau, we're passing schools of barracudas, jacks and trevallys. We descend to 40 meters and wait. There they are - a group of 30 hammerheads is coming up from the deep. Two are curious and pass us at a distance of just 3 meters. Alas, these magnificent animals vanish in the big blue again.

It's time to go up, and again we are surrounded by mass of fish. We feel like diving in one of those aquariums you can find in front of restaurants. We reach the southern edge of the plateau at 30 meters. Dozens of big (BIG) groupers chasing each other like young dogs. Now we can chill out, enjoy corals and reef fishes, and should try to avoid the Giant triggers. Wow, do you see the big tunas, they should have 1.5 m each. "

Sudan Red Sea liveaboard scuba diving holidays"All in all we dived 14 times in 6 days. We didn't see any other divers! Equipment (tanks, Zodiacs) was in perfect shape. We encountered hammerheads in four dives (Scalloped hammerhead shark in groups of 20-30), we had a Silvertip shark, a Flap nose ray, huge Dogtooth tunas (> 1.5 m) and a single Great barracuda (> 1.5 m).

Sudan Red Sea liveaboard scuba diving holidaysMy buddy and me also believe that we saw a Tiger shark. But it was to far away to be sure, maybe it was just a Grey reef and a little bit of nitrogen... But in general there is a good chance to encounter big sharks like the Oceanic white tip. At the end of one dive we were attacked from Giant triggers: body-checks, new design for our fins, and a painful bite - "A Fabrico" - I hope your knee is fine again.

Diving this region of the Red Sea is more like diving Maldives than you may know it from Sharm or Hurghada. This means current but current means big fish. One dive we faced a strong downstream - our bubbles went down! I came back with 40 bar left - thank god we had the 15L tanks. My buddy spent 11 minutes of deco at 3 meters."

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