Red Sea Cruise, Egypt
Run and hosted by the Dolphin Lagoon team
“This adventure is an encounter with the self and with inner happiness, because meeting free dolphins through a respectful approach opens the door to our hearts and to essential communication.”
Karin Estoppey
An opportunity to treat yourself to a wonderful adventure, or to share it with family and friends.
We are pleased to offer you a cruise to swim with wild dolphins in the calm of a translucent Red Sea lagoon (Egypt – Deep South), during which you can disconnect from the stress of everyday life and let yourself live in joy and harmony.
Through our supervision, we place particular emphasis on a respectful approach to dolphins which enables us to foster beautiful encounters and discover the energetic communication of their unconditional love. We offer quality teaching that will enable you to meet dolphins in optimal natural conditions.
The main activity of the cruise is swimming to meet the dolphins and discovering the fish and coral of the lagoon. No outing is compulsory, however, and everyone can organize their day according to their own wishes and well-being. The swimming technique consists of simple equipment: mask, snorkel and fins. This technique is ideal for approaching dolphins, so we feel as free as they do. This is not a diving cruise.
During your stay, if you wish, you’ll also have the opportunity to discover basic freediving techniques that will enable you to descend easily to several meters.
Light and Benevolence.
Because we complement each other and have the same ideas about ethics and support for people, Hassan and Karin are committed to respecting each person’s individuality. Our aim is to listen to the specific needs of each participant, so as to offer them a wonderful cruise that will enable them to experience a week of true happiness and rediscover their childhood joy.
“The discovery of the underwater world and the encounter with wild dolphins and their unconditional love changed my life. Today, I want to share this extraordinary experience of communication through the senses and the intense happiness offered by the presence and energy of wild dolphins. “
Program and course of the week
Below you’ll find more information on the organization of this magnificent adventure, as well as a day-by-day description.
As soon as you arrive at the airport, you’ll be transferred directly to the boat, where you can take off your shoes for your entire stay.
A cruise on a comfortable boat anchored in the dolphin lagoon.
This peaceful lagoon is a 3-hour sail from our departure port. With a depth of approx. 15 meters, with water at around 28° (30° in autumn), it feels like swimming in a crystal-clear pool.
The lagoon is protected from the waves by the coral reef, which is why this colony of around 100 dolphins comes here to play and rest during the day.
Dolphins often swim close to the boat, as if looking for us.
When this isn’t the case, our zodiac takes us across the lagoon close to groups of dolphins, so that we can get in the water and swim with them.
Activities of the week
During the week, depending on the program opportunities, we will also offer you the following activities:
– Scuba diving
– Discover the coral reefs and their multicolored fish
– Swim to meet turtles or rays
– Presentation on dolphins
– Films and reports of your choice
– Evening on a desert island (depending on program opportunities)
We also have a classical guitar, an electronic piano and even a didgeridoo.
Providing the means to express joy… that’s what DolphinLagoon is all about!
With the boat at anchor for the entire stay in the lagoon, nights are spent aboard the boat, in the middle of the sea, protected by the lagoon. They bring us serenity and a wonderful feeling of being alone in paradise. It’s a marvellous opportunity for stargazing, as there’s no light around us to disturb this magnificent vision. It’s perfectly possible to sleep under the stars, on one of the boat’s upper decks.
The boat is equipped with comfortable air-conditioned double cabins, each with en-suite wc and shower.
The dedicated and highly skilled crew are an important part of the success of our cruises, as their kindness and dedication contribute directly to the magic and spirit of this experience at sea.
Worried about getting bored on the cruise?
Here’s how a day goes, to give you an idea:
The timetable surprises everyone, but you’ll see that it’s totally adapted to our activity. And all the participants are delighted to see how easy and natural it is for them to get up so early. Even late risers get on well. Yes, they do!
2 to 3 outings per day : the program below shows a day with 3 aquatic outings. However, experience has taught us that, depending on the conditions, we may only offer 2 dolphin outings per day, to ensure optimal conditions for real encounters with the dolphins. Of course, it’s always possible to enjoy the water on an individual basis outside group outings.
5:30 a.m. Wake-up call. We jump into our bathing suits as our only attire and head down to the lounge to drink tea or coffee, watch the sunrise and get ready for our first outing.
6.15 am Departure by Zodiac. We sail for between 5 and 20 minutes to meet the dolphins that have just entered the lagoon, then launch ourselves into the water. If the dolphins are in a sleeping phase, they are silent and swim calmly in a tight group in harmony, coming up regularly to breathe. It’s very important to respect their rest. So, when it’s time to observe them, we ask you not to try to provoke them to play. However, it is possible to swim gently alongside them, without disturbing the harmony of the group. They sometimes accept us with complete trust and close their eyes.
7:30 (or 8:00, depending on our meetings) Back to the boat, where we get ready for breakfast and share the magic of our experiences with great joy and excitement.
8:00 Well-earned breakfast (or wake up late risers who want to stay in bed)
After this first meal, everyone agrees to take a much-needed and well-deserved rest. Most people lie down on a sofa to chat, listen to music, look at the first photos or sleep.
10:00 am We ring the bell to call everyone out of their resting phase and get ready for the 2nd Zodiac outing, so go in search of your sun cream, mask, fins, ah yes, your camera and don’t forget a bottle of water just in case…
10:22 Departure of the zodiac. We sail to meet the dolphins. When the dolphins are awake, we can observe several types of situation. They may be actively playing with each other, particularly in terms of hierarchy or seduction, resulting in chases and “salads” of dolphins interacting with each other, sometimes in a muscular manner.
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It’s great fun to observe them at these moments and to watch them evolve according to their age category.
The young babies stay wisely protected under the mother, the older babies risk a few escapes and give us some particularly funny shows of jumping out of the water, while the teenagers provoke and jostle each other.
In the waking phases, there are of course those moments we all look forward to and love, when the dolphins decide to integrate us into their activities and games. At these moments, we don’t need to go anywhere to follow them, they come to meet us. They circle and dance around us. They stand beside us, so close they sometimes brush against us. They come and look us in the eye, or face us, and provoke us to play by nodding. These moments are magical, because in this privileged relationship they offer us a unique relationship with them, in which we can perceive that wonderful feeling of unconditional love.
12:00 Return to the boat. The kitchen staff are delighted to see us back, as a hot meal awaits us. So at around 12:30, after a bit of blah-blah, fruit juice and dry clothes, we’re ready to sit down to dinner. Mmmh bon appétit!
After the meal, the group always agrees to take a much-needed break.
2:30 pm We ring the bell to wake you from your lethargy. It’s time to get ready for our3rd outing in the water. Depending on the mood of the group, how busy the lagoon is or the attitude of the dolphins, we sometimes opt to take you to other magnificent parts of the lagoon, to small coves and to take you swimming towards the coral reefs to meet the other living creatures of the lagoon, the superb fish and multicolored corals, sometimes also the turtles. Some people prefer to continue resting (yes, the sea can be very tiring!) and opt for an afternoon of reading or watching a film or news report in the boat’s lounge.
16:00 Return to the boat, where a snack awaits us. As the light gradually fades and the dolphins leave the lagoon to hunt in the open sea, we take the opportunity to keep ourselves occupied.
Some are still playing in the water at the stern of the boat until nightfall, some are getting ready for the shower, while others are organizing aperitifs or sharing photos.
It’s also a good time to present workshops on various themes, and to improvise eclectic, multicultural dance parties that are both lively and fun. Note that it gets dark around 5.30pm.
7:00 pm The chef and his kitchen team prepare a delicious hot buffet with a wide variety of dishes.
The rest of the evening is organized according to the group’s spontaneous desires and degree of fatigue: games, music and dancing on deck under the moon and stars, sharing and discussion on the sofas on the aft decks, or an early night in your cabin.
If you’d like to get an idea of the organizational details of this magnificent adventure, you can also visit our program and typical day page.
Registration: Karin Estoppey contact form or info@dolphinlagoon.ch
