Desert & Reef Adventure

After an early breakfast, please meet your Group Leader in the hotel reception at 08.00.  Today you will enjoy a snorkel safari in the Southern Oasis, a remote and pristine area with a huge variety of colourful marine life and coral. It gets its name from a patch of palm trees that stand near to the site. You have a stop for lunch before getting back in the water to further explore the coral islands and pinnacles. (BL)

Photography Challenge 1: Meet your expert photographer Graeme Fordham,  and learn all the tricks of how to capture water movement and light reflection. Evening lecture and review of pictures of the day.

After breakfast the 4x4 Jeeps arrive to take you south into "Lawrence of Arabia Desert" where you discover the frozen dinosaur rock formation and the sand dune of Hadoudah which is the highest dune in the Sinai and a great place to give sand boarding a go! Minimum age 8 - younger children can sandboard using special lighter boards on smaller dunes or try dune rolling!

Enjoy the famous Bedouin hospitality as you spend time with a local family at Nawamis before returning to Dahab by early evening, with plenty of time to explore and enjoy dinner in one of its many restaurants.
Coral Coast Hotel (AAA) - 4 nights - Swimming Pool (BL)

Photo challenge 3: Jeep Safari and sand boarding, learn to capture speed movement and portraits, landscape (sand dunes). Competition and election of best photographer. Preparation Photography book (see how to design it)

This morning you head to Laguna Beach where you spend the day relaxing, building sand castles and playing in the sea. In the afternoon there is a trip on a glass bottomed boat, from which you can enjoy watching the abundance of marine life that lives in deeper water.

This evening, for those who still have energy left, you can choose to go on an optional trip (additional charge) to St Catherine's Monastery combined with a climb up Mt Sinai. Minimum age 8. Departing late evening you take a 2 hour drive to St Catherine's and start the climb up Mt Sinai. This will take approximately 2.5 hrs to reach the summit for sunrise at around 5.30 am. It is a relatively easy hike although there are a lot of steps up to the top and it can be windy, so care may need to be taken. There are plenty of resting places along route, with an area at Elias Garden for teas and coffee, just before the 720 steps of repentance to the summit. Camels can be hired to take you most of the way up the mountain, although you will need to dismount when you reach the steps. This is a beautiful climb, which offers a taste of the serenity and magnificence of southern Sinai's high mountain region. (B)