The deep south
Sataya Dolphin Reef Snorkelling Trip from Marsa Alam
Full day · about 9–10 hours · The Red Sea · Shared
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Far south of the resorts, Sataya's reef shelters spinner dolphins on the open sea. The visit is about restraint as much as luck: quiet water, rules that limit the boats, and letting the dolphins decide.
Details checked

- Travel time
- Hotel transfer to the harbour, then a long boat run south
- Time at sites
- Most of the day at sea
- Best time to go
- Calm days, all year
- Intensity
- Moderate
Proposed highlights
- Sataya, the southern dolphin reef
- Spinner dolphins in the wild, on their terms
- Snorkelling on the reef
- Lunch on board
Places you visit
- Sataya reef
- Fury Shoals
- Entrance tickets
- To be confirmed in your quote
- Optional / extra
- To be confirmed
- Tour format
- Shared
How the day runs
Far south of the resorts, Sataya's reef shelters spinner dolphins on the open sea. The visit is about restraint as much as luck: quiet water, rules that limit the boats, and letting the dolphins decide.
Early morning
Harbour
Early transfer from your hotel and boarding.
Morning
Sataya reef
Quiet entries to watch the dolphins if they are there, and snorkelling on the reef.
Midday
Lunch on board
Then a second reef stop.
Afternoon
Return
The run back north to the harbour and your hotel.
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Photo: Alexander Vasenin, CC BY-SA 3.0