{"id":1523,"date":"2015-10-28T07:31:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T07:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seadancerdivecenter.com\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2021-07-29T08:14:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T08:14:40","slug":"postcard-from-dahab-south-sinai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seadancerdivecenter.com\/fr\/postcard-from-dahab-south-sinai\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard From Dahab, South Sinai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postcard From Dahab<\/span><\/h2>
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Dear All,<\/p>\n

Unless you\u2019ve been living in a cave or in a coma for several years you will be aware of the social, economic and political upheavals that Egypt has gone through over the last 4 years.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t

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Even though this year\u2019s presidential elections went smoothly and there is a greater feeling of stability and calm in much of the country the future is by no means clear and certain areas of the country (particularly Northern Sinai) remain lawless out of bounds to all outsiders except the military and those with criminal or suicidal tendencies.<\/p>\n

Sensationalist headlines such as; \u201cThe lawless Sinai<\/em>\u201d and, \u201cSinai is the New Afghanistan!<\/em>\u201d make the whole Sinai Peninsula sound like some particularly unpleasant corner of hell. How many of you have said \u201cmaybe I\u2019ll visit Egypt?\u201d only to bombarded by people telling you that \u201cit\u2019s too dangerous\u201d and \u201care you crazy?\u201d<\/p>\n

So are those of us who live here in Dahab (South Sinai) cowering behind barricades\u2019 wearing flak jackets and tin hats? Well, I can\u2019t speak for everyone ( maybe one particularly paranoid resident is cowering in their cellar somewhere) but personally I am sat at my work computer, looking out to Saudi Arabia 20 kms or so across the Gulf of Aqaba and it\u2019s a perfect, beautiful, warm sunny autumn day. A few windsurfers are enjoying Dahab\u2019s perfect sailing winds; a group of freedivers are bobbing around on the surface 100 meters off shore, enjoying Dahab\u2019s exceptional freediving conditions; a young foreign resident strolls by with a her two young children (one in a pushchair) and all I can hear is the waves, some laughter from next door and The Cure (from my music collection!) while I wait for our 3 Advanced Open Water<\/a> students to arrive to explore Dahab\u2019s vibrant reefs and marine life (we\u2019ll go to the \u2018The Islands<\/a>\u2019 today I think)<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t

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Quite an idyllic scene, far removed from what the media would have you believe. Seems perfect doesn\u2019t it? Except that since I wrote about the lady walking by with her kids, not one single other person has walked by and this is Dahab\u2019s \u2018high<\/em>\u2019 season (it should be pointed out at this juncture that I type with 2 fingers and make many mistakes, so this is quite a long period of time!)<\/p>\n

Costs are rising, visitors are decreasing and some operators are slashing (already low) prices to grab some of the diminished pie. A few good dive centres are continuing to resist the pressure to dump prices so they can maintain good equipment, small groups and high standards for those who appreciate them, but market forces are against us. \u2018No profit<\/em>\u2019 and \u2018high quality<\/em>\u2019 make for a very bad relationship and they don\u2019t stay together too long.<\/p>\n

Things are unlikely to get much busier until foreign governments change their travel advice and the media learn to distinguish between \u2018north<\/em>\u2019 and \u2018south<\/em>\u2019 (strange, they can do this with Korea, Sudan and Ireland) In the meantime, those of us who live here in South Sinai hope we can see through this lean period and still be here to offer quality Scuba diving to those who want it.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, is Dahab safe? Well, we don\u2019t have our heads stuck in the desert sands that surround our little oasis and bad things can happen, but as one customer phrased it \u201cDahab is as safe as international terrorism will allow anywhere to be<\/em>\u201d \u2026 pretty much covers it!<\/p>\n

Wish You Were Here!<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t

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