Yoga & diving in the Red Sea
| country: | Egypt |
| location: | Red Sea |
| departures: | 2008: 16 Oct, 6 Nov, 13 Nov, 27 Nov, 21 Dec, 28 Dec |
| price: | From £350 - £425 (8 days) excluding flights. All bookings include free carbon offsetting, a yoga carpet and mat bag. |
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the amazing things you'll be doing
This eight-day yoga holiday is set in the remote idyll of Dahab, an oasis on the Red Sea coast. One of Egypt's forgotten treasures, Dahab overlooks a necklace of coral reefs - the second most extensive reef system in the world. Year-round warm water has developed a fantastic ecosystem where tiny clown fish play and elegant rays glide.
As well as daily yoga and plenty of time relaxing on the beach, we offer a range of activities including a trip to the Biblical Mount Sinai, camping with Bedouins in the desert, scuba diving, experience a camel trek or venture deep into the Sinai desert on an Arabian horse.
It's a fantastic yoga & adventure holiday with the possiblity to:
Not included: Flights, meals (other than breakfast) and optional excursions & activities e.g. Try dive (£30), Mount Sinai trip (£40).
Each day we have either one or two yoga workshops, usually lasting between an hour to an hour and half. We cater for all different levels and our teachers also offer different aspects of yoga, so while one group focuses on postures, another might be doing breathing exercises. In this way, you're getting more individual attention and rapidly improving your yoga technique.
We dive in Dahab, one of Egypt’s prettiest seaside towns. Almost all diving is from the shore; you just put on your kit and wade in. The coral reefs begin just metres from the beach, so if you just want to snorkel there’s still plenty to see. Divers are often charmed by the fact that the fish don’t appear bothered about the human presence: within minutes thousands of multi-coloured fish are swimming past your visor – or even nibbling at your toes!
As well as daily yoga and plenty of time relaxing on the beach, we offer a range of activities including a trip to the Biblical Mount Sinai, camping with Bedouins in the desert, scuba diving, experience a camel trek or venture deep into the Sinai desert on an Arabian horse.
It's a fantastic yoga & adventure holiday with the possiblity to:
- Snorkel or dive amidst some of the most stunning coral reefs in the world
- Practice yoga in the desert and on the top of the fantastic Mount Sinai
- Investigate the fascinating culture of the local Bedouins
- Ride Arabian horses in the deserts and mountains
Not included: Flights, meals (other than breakfast) and optional excursions & activities e.g. Try dive (£30), Mount Sinai trip (£40).
yoga sessions
This holiday is an excellent way to improve your yoga practice or for beginners to get a concise introduction to yoga and meditation. Away from daily life of the West, you have time to clean up the body without the distractions of work, television or the family. Over the course of the holiday you develop an intensive contact with your body leading to increased fitness and a great detox. Each day we have either one or two yoga workshops, usually lasting between an hour to an hour and half. We cater for all different levels and our teachers also offer different aspects of yoga, so while one group focuses on postures, another might be doing breathing exercises. In this way, you're getting more individual attention and rapidly improving your yoga technique.
diving
Yoga and diving have more in common than you might think. Divers who have taken up yoga often comment that their performance is enhanced as breath control and calmness are both powerful assets under the water. We will offer you the opportunity either to get your open water certificate (a basic diving qualification that allows you extend your diving expertise into different dive areas), or to extend whatever PADI certificate you’ve achieved so far. We dive in Dahab, one of Egypt’s prettiest seaside towns. Almost all diving is from the shore; you just put on your kit and wade in. The coral reefs begin just metres from the beach, so if you just want to snorkel there’s still plenty to see. Divers are often charmed by the fact that the fish don’t appear bothered about the human presence: within minutes thousands of multi-coloured fish are swimming past your visor – or even nibbling at your toes!
travellers' tales
It was excellent and exceeded my expectations. It was well organised but in a laid back sort of way enabling you to do your own thing as well as and when you wanted to. (more)
how this holiday makes a difference
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In support of our belief in responsible tourism, all our accommodation is locally owned. In the Sinai (Bedouin territory), our hotels are owned by local tribes people, who also provide our guides and drivers. Not only are they a particularly amenable people, but their expert knowledge of the desert and living there are irreplaceable assets. In mainland Egypt, our hotels are similarly Egyptian, as are our guides and drivers.
 We also visit local Bedouin craft shops in the Sinai desert, which provide employment for nearly 200 Bedouin women. Trips into the desert furthermore bring cash to host Bedouin communities - our visits to Mount Sinai, for example, are accompanied by mountain guides from the local Gebeliya tribe, who rotate camel provision among male members of the tribe. We also invest in energy reduction schemes to offset the CO2 from your Egypt flight. Each trip also contains a trip to St Katherine's mountain where we stay overnight at an eco-lodge, whose systems and construction are and have been environmentally friendly, and proceeds from which go to St Katherine's National Park. |
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