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Sunlight Itinerary

Rocky and Zabargad

8 days / 7 nights

About Sunlight

  • Exciting eight-day scuba safaris and custom charters
  • Possible encounters with oceanic whitetip sharks, and schooling hammerheads
  • Updated interiors and modern facilities having been restored in 2019
  • Explore Egypt’s top diving and snorkelling sites with a fun, social atmosphere

Sunlight liveaboard's modern and updated deck plan, comfortable cabins, diverse itineraries, and fantastic service make it a top pick for liveaboard divers looking for affordable safaris in Egypt’s Red Sea. This vessel is known for its fun, social atmosphere and lively evening gatherings, ideal for outgoing guests hoping to meet a new dive buddy or two. Sunlight’s itineraries also include opportunities to add to your liveaboard adventure with resort stays at partner property Sadko Diving Centre in Hurghada, CMAS scuba courses, and day trips to some of the central Red Sea’s very best sites. Private charters for up to 26 guests are also available, allowing you to plan a completely custom adventure.

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Itinerary details

Length of trip 8 days / 7 nights
Number of dives 20 - 21
Experience Open Water - Minimum 30 dives
Insurance Required

Highlights

  • Circular route to Rocky and Zabargad
  • Search the overhangs of Rocky Island for rare black coral
  • Dive the slender coral towers of Zabargad Island
Day 1:
Once on board, you will be assigned your accommodation, receive a boat briefing, and select any rental equipment. The boat will spend the night in port.

Days 2-6:
This route offers top-notch reef and shark diving opportunities. Expect to see all sorts of sharks, mantas, turtles, dugong and more. These are exclusive dive sites with no daily boats in sight. 

Further south are the spectacular overhangs and deep walls of Rocky Island and the abundance of soft coral and spectacular coral pinnacles at Zabargad.

Zabargad Island is a wonderful dive site offering wall diving, a wreck, and shallow areas with dozens of slender coral towers. Here live a great many tropical groupers, which are easily approached and photographed during a dive without equals in their category. When diving here at night, you will find octopus, crustaceans, and nudibranchs emerge to crowd through the coral grottos.

Rocky Island is a small fossil-coral island that emerges from the surface, elliptical in shape, surrounded by a surface-level reef. The island’s walls sink down to more than 1,000 meters of water. The walls are covered in soft corals and huge gorgonians that float and wave in the current. It is possible to sight many species of shark here, as well as sailfish, dolphins, and manta rays.

Day 7:
After a morning of diving, depending on the following day’s flight schedule, we will return to port at around 15.30.

Day 8:
Check-out before 9:00.

Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics, and local regulations.

Transfer details

Departure

07:00pm

Port Ghalib

Marsa Alam International Airport: RMF

Return

08:00am

Port Ghalib

Marsa Alam International Airport: RMF

Current availability and prices: https://www.zubludiving.com/itineraries/sunlight/itn-2502250624341-rocky-and-zabargad