Egypt Itineraries:

Brothers & Elphinstone

Experience two of the finest sites in the Red Sea. A part of the Marine Park, the Brother islands offer breath-taking underwater scenery, wall diving, wreck diving and an abundance of marine wildlife. Elphinstone Reef is a legend in the Red Sea. Covered in hard and soft corals and visiting pelagics, this truly is an awesome reef.

QUALIFICATION NEEDED: You must have a minimum of 50 logged dives to join this safari and ideally be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent.

Please note that no night diving or snorkelling will be allowed on this itinerary as it is within marine parks where this is prohibited.

Sample itinerary:

**PLEASE NOTE** the itinerary below is just an example of the route taken and the order and dive sites are not guaranteed. All dives sites are subject to weather conditions and the final route taken is at the absolute discretion of the captain and dive guides.

This sample route is based on the vessel departing from and arriving back to HURGHADA however this itinerary can also be run from and to Port Ghalib and so therefore the order of sites can vary.

Day 1 - Gota Abu Ramada x 3 - Sail overnight to brothers

Day 2 - Big Brother

Day 3 - Small Brother

Day 4 - Small Brother - Sail overnight

Day 5 - Elphinstone, Marsa Shouna

Day 6 - Salem Express/Panorama, Abu Hashish

Itinerary highlights:

Big Brother: A 400 metre long island offering fabulous wreck diving and wall diving. The wreck of the Numidia lies on the northern tip between 10 and 80 metres. The north-west side of the island houses the wreck of the Aida. On every section of this reef the wall is covered with corals and life.

Little Brother: Boasts a very high concentration of life within a very small area. Fan coral forests, overhangs, hard and soft corals in a variety of astonishing colours… and of course there are plenty of fish! With regular sightings of hammerheads, thresher sharks, grey sharks and white tip reef sharks, at the right time of year.

Elphinstone Reef: A Red Sea legend. One of the most beautiful reefs, with its north and south plateau's covered in hard and soft corals and visiting pelagics, this truly is an awesome reef.

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