Price 55 OMR
5 ½ hours (8:30 am to 2 pm)
Daymaniyat Islands, Muscat
Min Age: 10 +
Availability: Jan 2019 to December 2019
Max. People: 20
Tour Details
Enjoy a 35-minute boat trip to the beautiful Daymaniyat Islands, “ Nature Reserve”. The Islands are a sanctuary for birds and turtles to nest their eggs.
Virtually everyone who comes here does so to dive. There are nine low, rocky little islets here, strung out in a line from east to west and clustered in three quite widely separated groups, surrounded by coral reefs.
The islands have been protected as a nature reserve since 1996 and provide an important nesting site for hawksbill and green turtles, as well as a wide range of migratory birds including the increasingly rare sooty falcon, one of the few migratory raptors which actually nests and breeds in the region.
Given their protected status, access to the Daymaniyats is restricted, and you’re not allowed to land on the islands from the beginning of May until the end of October
Daymaniyat Islands, often called the “ Jewel of the Middle East” offers great dive sites for visitors to enjoy.
With most dive sites located along the islands, Daymaniyat Islands offers great dive sites to all level divers, beginners to advanced.
You will be doing 1 dive at Aquarium Dive site.
Departure & Return Location: Civil Aviation Club, Muscat (Google Map)
Departure time: sunset
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What to expect:
Throughout the year you will see 3 different species of turtles that comes since centuries to the islands.
A huge diversity of hard & soft corals, more then 130 species according to Marine Biologists.
Common encounters will be honeycomb Murray Eel, sting rays, schools of fish, leopard sharks, nudibranch’s, when possible sea horse.
For those coming during summer our good friend the Whale Shark will definitely be around.