Links

Our favourite diving / climbing / trekking / freediving & adventure sites around the globe! Want to exchange links? Just ask!

Adventure Travel Forums & Directories

accommodation.drivesouthafrica.co.za: African accommodation guide
adventuresportsholidays.com : Tours, trips, courses & kit for every kind of adventure travel.

africantravel.com : African Travel Gateway offers African safaris, tours and travel guides and specializes in tailor-made African Travel, adventures and tours throughout South and East Africa

dodo.com: You personal Travel Guide

Infohub.com : Specialty travel guide inc sports, adventure & eco tourism around the world.

DirectoryOutdoor.net : outdoor directory with links to outdoor, camping, campgrounds, scuba diving, boating, backpacking, scout shops and more.
natural-track.com: African Safaris, and accommodation and camping trips.
nordsee-suche.de : Wir freuen uns über Ihren Besuch auf der nordsee-suche.de und sind Ihnen gerne bei der Suche nach Unterkünften für Ihre Ferien an der Nordsee behilflich!
Realtravel.com : Photos, reviews, tips and blogs by travelers

redseabusiness.com: Business directory for the Red Sea

safari2africa.com : Information & bookings for safaris in Southern Africa.

thorntree.lonelyplanet.com : Lonely Planet's bulletin board. Country specific postings as well as assorted travel topics.

Travelpod.com : The web's original travel blog

traveltree.co.uk : Web site mostly for people looking for adventure and activities for gap years and worldwide volunteer programs.

tripadvisor.com : 10,000,000+ traveler reviews & opinions of hotels, vacations & more

yougodo.com : Worldwide activity search including diving & trekking.

Scuba Diving

There are thousands of these! Here are a few of our favourites. Let us know if have another to add to the list.

PADI.com : Official web site of PADI, the most popular diver training organisation in the world.

CDWS.travel : official web site of Egypt's Chamber of Diving & Watersports, the technical body respsonsible for auditing Egypt's dive centres & promoting the Red Sea. You'll be happy to hear that Desert Divers is fully certified diving & safari company conforming to International & European standards (EN 14467 / ISO 24803), which enables us to be a member of the Egyptain Underwater Federation (EUF), the CDWS & to hold a Ministry of Tourism license. And you thought diving was free of red tape ;-). Seriously, the CDWS & Ministry of Tourism are important and have been working hard to improve standards throughout Egypt & the Red Sea.

diveanarchy: Post diving related news, articles, documents, pics, movies, and all other diving related stuff that we like to read!

Divebuddy.com : Looking for a dive buddy - start here!

Diveglobal.com : Charlotte’s web site. Charlotte was a Dahab diver in the early days, and now runs this great diving web site & booking agency. Worldwide destinations.

divesitedirectory.co.uk : Information on dive sites all over the world collated from contributions by the diving community. Add your favourite sites today!

divingindex.com : Worldwide directly of scuba diving services

dykmag.net : Worldwide directory of scuba diving services

egypt.greatestdivesites.com: Another nice dive site directory - includes almost all the Dahab dive sites.

Ifyoudive.com : Scuba diving holidays for UK divers.

myDiveBook.com : Worldwide database of dive sites, user forums, buddy database & more. Put your personal dive log online!

opzijnbest.nl : Dutch portal about Dahab, in Dutch & English.

qualidive.com: Swiss search engine for dive centers, dive areas, see and upload photos, join discussion groups, rate dive centers, search for buddies and jobs.

Scubadviser.com : Diver reviews on dive centres and liveaboards. We're there - tell people what you think about us!

Scubayellowpages.com : Good worldwide directory. you can also submit your favourite photographs.

theunderwaterchannel.tv: Watch diving videos, explore destinations & check out the latest kit on The Under Water Channel.

topscubasites.com : Just like it says - start here and find all the sites you need.

tauchen.ws : Alles rund ums Tauchen (Tauchseiten, Tauchbasen, Bücher & Videos)

woanders-tauchen.de/index2.htm : Auf dieser Seite findest du nach und nach alles etwas mit dem Tauchsport zu tun hat (z.B. Tauchplätze, -Basen, -Schulen, -Zubehör und auch Tauchreisen)

Friendly dive clubs around the world

battyeaboutdiving.co.uk (Sunderland, UK) : Chris Battye refused to dive the Red Sea, until he found our 1 week Camel Diving Safaris!

aquanaut.de (Darmstadt, Germany) : Marko’s club! Marko divides his time between Germany and Dahab. He is a PDA Instructor, and one of the World’s most experienced Disabled Diving Instructors.

baltic-bedouin-divers: Hassan & Maike's club! What is a Jordanian Bedouin doing teaching PADI courses in the Baltic Sea?! Having a lot of fun, and bringing people to the Red Sea to warm up!!

BlueHeavenHolidays (Marsa Alam, Red Sea) : Constanze & Ayman’s place in Tondoba Bay (south Marsa Alam).

Deep-South-Diving.com : for all the old Sharm divers, this is Karim's place - also in Tondoba Bay.

divinganswers.com (UK/Holland) : Youri's web site. Loads of useful info and answers about diving!

explorediving.com (Arizona, USA): join Mike Clark's dive club for trips to the Red Sea including a Camel Diving Safari! Plus other destinations that combine great diving & adventure travel.

FiftyBar dive club (Whitstable, Kent) : Chris & Christian's Whitstable-based club.

fijiresort.com/diving (Fiji) : Jean-Michel Cousteau's dive club - and you can't really go wrong with a club run by a Cousteau

h2odivers (Malta) : Malta dive club that does tailor-made holidays for you.

londonscuba.com (London, UK) : London Scuba is a dedicated dive centre, with its own pool and full training facilities and is a very popular choice for people not only in the London area but across the UK for starting their dive training and some complete their Open Water dives overseas.