Travel Standard: November 2018

Friday, November 30, 2018

Sharm el sheikh - Nightlife.


Farsha Cafe


All nooks and crannies, floor cushions, Bedouin tents and swinging lamps, Farsha is the kind of place that travelers come to for a coffee and find themselves lingering at four drinks and a shisha pipe later. Great …

Pacha Club



The hub of Sharm’s nightlife. Watch for advertising around town to find out about upcoming events. Women gain free entry into the club before midnight.








Blue Hole Divers




The number of diver deaths in the Blue Hole is not  known, one source suggests 130 in the last fifteen years.[4] [3][5] The majority of those killed were experienced, including highly trained technical divers and diving instructors. There have also been snorkelling deaths at the surface unrelated to the depth of the hole.[7]
A notable death was that of Yuri Lipski, a 22-year-old Russian-Israeli diving instructor on 28 April 2000 at a depth of 115 metres after an uncontrolled descent. [3] [8] Yuri carried a video camera, which filmed his death. This has made it the best known death at the site and one of the best known diving deaths in the world.[4] The video shows Yuri in an involuntary and uncontrolled descent, eventually landing on the sea floor at 115 metres where he panics, removes his regulator and tries to fill his buoyancy compensator but is unable to rise. At that depth he would be subject to severe nitrogen narcosis, which may have impaired his judgement, induced hallucinations and caused panic and confusion. Lipski had a single tank of heliox (a mix of oxygen and helium), technical divers at the planned dive depth more commonly use multiple stage tanks filled with trimix (oxygen, nitrogen, and helium) to reduce narcosis and decompression times.
Lipski's body was recovered the following day by Tarek Omar, one of the world's foremost deep-water divers, at the request of Lipski's mother.[8][9] Omar had earlier twice warned Lipski against attempting the dive. On the bottom, Omar found Lipski's helmet camera, still intact.

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Blue Hole - Dahab

The Blue Hole is a diving location on the southeast Sinai, a few kilometres north of DahabEgypt on the coast of the Red Sea.
The Blue Hole is a submarine sinkhole, with a maximum depth within the hole of just over 100 m (328 feet). There is a shallow opening to the sea around 6 m (20 feet) deep, known as "the saddle", and a 26 m (85 feet) long tunnel, known as "the arch", whose top is at a depth of 55 m (181 feet)[1], and whose bottom falls away as it reaches the seaward side to about 120 m (394 feet).[2] On the seaward side the depth drops steeply to over a thousand metres (3500 feet) deep.
[3] The hole and the surrounding area have an abundance of coral and reef fish.[3] The Blue Hole is a hot spot for freediving because of the depth directly accessible from shore and the lack of current.

Sharm El Sheikh

Sharm El Sheikh has developed into a major tourist resort.

The Pyramids as you've never seen them before!

The Pyramids as you've never seen them before! Nicolas Aubert, from Malaga in Spain, glides above the ancient Pyramids of Giza at...