Safaga Private Snorkelling Trips

Safaga Private Snorkelling Trips provides various activities for enjoying the sea and discovering the underwater world while holidaying in Hurghada Resort. It allows you to choose between the best snorkelling boat trips in Safaga for families, couples, and individuals with different snorkelling backgrounds.

Hurghada is considered one of the most famous tourist cities in the Red Sea of Egypt. This resort allows you to enjoy a wonderful holiday with family and friends, swimming in the best Hurghada snorkelling spots to see the most beautiful coral reefs, rare colourful fish and dolphins.

Hurghada’s climate allows for different types of recreation and relaxation under the wonderful moderate sunshine throughout the year, especially in the morning. It is undoubtedly suitable for enjoying snorkelling activities from the most beautiful beaches of the Hurghada islands.

Frequently Asked Questions

The answers provided below are based on responses from experience in the field of tourism:

What are the best Snorkeling Trips in Safaga?

The best Snorkeling in Hurghada are:

• Orange and Giftun Islands Snorkeling Trip from Hurghada with Lunch
• Dolphin House Snorkeling Sea Trip

What Snorkeling in Safaga is Good for Avoiding Crowds?

These hidden gems in Hurghada may have limited interaction with crowds:

• Orange and Giftun Islands Snorkeling Trip from Hurghada with Lunch
• Orange Bay Island VIP Full-Day Snorkeling Sea Trip and Water Sports

Snorkeling in Hurghada

Snorkeling Hurghada in the Red Sea provides visitors with many underwater sites. Hurghada snorkelling offers many reef sites, both near and far from shore, from little islands to submerged pinnacles. Once a tiny fishing village, Hurghada has transformed into a bustling tourist metropolis with huge beachside hotels and an even more enormous roster of potential excursions.

Marine Life in Hurghada

A snorkel trip to Hurghada puts you face to face with the Red Sea Riviera’s extraordinary marine life in almost impossibly clear waters. Egypt snorkel spots are world-famous for visibility, reaching up to 70 meters in some places. The country’s sea coast and islands differ dramatically from its underwater landscape, which explodes in diversity and abundance of colourful creatures and topography. The Hurghada reefs are typically shallow and sloping, making them suitable for beginner snorkelers. All a snorkeler’s favourite reef inhabitants can be found in Hurghada waters – parrotfish, surgeonfish, butterflyfish, anemonefish, pufferfish, sweetlips, colourful wrasses, morays, stingrays, and turtles. As a bonus, seeing dolphins on Hurghada boat trips between the shore and your snorkel sites is common.

Best Snorkel Sites in Hurghada

Giftun Islands, with Paradise Beach and Orange Bay, especially Mahmya Beach, is one of the most-visited snorkel sites in Hurghada. This sea island lies a 45-minute boat ride from the Egyptian coast. The clear waters around Giftun hold multiple reefs for snorkelling, where calm conditions and easy access allow everyone to enjoy the plentiful fish and colourful corals with dolphin-frequented. Sunbathing on the beach is engaging and complementary for many visitors.

A snorkel excursion in Hurghada may include Abu Ramada Island and the Magawish Islands, where divers and snorkelers can find morays, nudibranchs, rays, barracudas and turtles. There are multiple reefs, some areas with excellent coral, and a chance to see notable sights like Napoleon Wrasse.

Hurghada Nearby Snorkelling Sites

The bays along the coastline south of Hurghada City are indisputably the best spots for snorkelling in Hurghada’s mainland area. Makadi Bay stands out among these bays for its coral reefs and is easily accessible from Hurghada. The area boasts an impressive array of marine life, including pink, purple, and blue stubby branching corals (Pocillopora sp.), massive corals, swaying soft corals, and a rainbow of reef fish. Makadi’s clear waters teem with turtles, rays, puffers, barracuda, octopus, and morays.

Soma Bay is another area with comprehensive offerings for snorkelers; the colourful corals in Soma also host the full range of fish life, including gatherings of Raccoon Butterflyfish with their black eye patches, Blue-spotted Stingrays, sweetlips, and multi-patterned wrasses. Just offshore, Soma Bay also holds a couple of coral pinnacles that divers and snorkelers can enjoy.

Sahl Hasheesh Bay has a lagoon filled with reef creatures and coral, including lionfish and octopus. Tours to this area often include dolphin watching and may even give you a chance to swim safely and cautiously with these fantastic animals.

What is the best time to go snorkelling in Hurghada?

Snorkelling in Hurghada is a year-round activity in Egypt. The main seasonal change is in water temperature, which can drop to 21 Celsius during winter and rise to 30 Celsius in the summer. As a snorkeler, you’ll mostly be in the sun-warmed surface layer of the ocean. If you’re worried about getting cold, it’s wise to pack a wetsuit for your vacation. You can easily buy or rent one in Egypt, and it’s less cumbersome than bringing your own.

Some recommend avoiding the hottest time of year in July and August. If you do not like to sweat or are prone to heat exhaustion, May and June during Springtime or September through November during Autumn are the best seasons to visit.