nappington
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Hey all,
We're fairly new divers and planning a trip to Jordan next October. We'll be doing the standard Jordan sights, but we'd like to fit a few good days of diving in our trip. We then go to Dubai for a few days and go back home.
I'd like some guidance to see whether we should try and make the trek down to Sharm El Sheikh (or another Egypt destination) for 3-4 days of diving (or a 3-4 night liveaboard) but it seems that getting there is a bit of a PITA, just because there doesn't seem to be any flights between Aqaba and Sharm and the land route requires two border crossings (plus a visa for Israel, since I don't have the right passport).
So the question is - is Egypt diving from a resort/liveaboard sufficiently better enough to lose a day transiting, or should we just stick to Aqaba boat dives?
One other potential option would be to dive Oman instead (so Jordan -> Oman -> Dubai), but I have no idea about the quality of the diving there.
Many thanks!
We're fairly new divers and planning a trip to Jordan next October. We'll be doing the standard Jordan sights, but we'd like to fit a few good days of diving in our trip. We then go to Dubai for a few days and go back home.
I'd like some guidance to see whether we should try and make the trek down to Sharm El Sheikh (or another Egypt destination) for 3-4 days of diving (or a 3-4 night liveaboard) but it seems that getting there is a bit of a PITA, just because there doesn't seem to be any flights between Aqaba and Sharm and the land route requires two border crossings (plus a visa for Israel, since I don't have the right passport).
So the question is - is Egypt diving from a resort/liveaboard sufficiently better enough to lose a day transiting, or should we just stick to Aqaba boat dives?
One other potential option would be to dive Oman instead (so Jordan -> Oman -> Dubai), but I have no idea about the quality of the diving there.
Many thanks!