Marsa Alam

Diving in Marsa alam

Marsa Alam is fast becoming a catchword, and justly so, within the international diving community: fewer divers, healthy reefs, large pelagics, unique pinnacles, impressive drop-offs, interesting caves and coral covered shipwrecks. Well-established dive resorts, camps and diving centers in Marsa Alam, Egypt are scattered to the north and to the south of the main village, some a considerable distance away. …

Marsa Alam is a fishing village on Egypt’s Red Sea coast 132km from Al-Quseir. With a new international airport, a number of tourism projects and many new hotels, however, it is rapidly growing in importance to the region. The coast of this area is lined with mangrove swamps providing the living space for many aquatic animals and birds. Safaris into …