Have you been to Sudan or would like to visit it? Here you go: 4 Sudanese flash deals are the perfect reason to plan a trip to the home of the sharks! Best season starter dates at great special rates!
Some of you asked us to post special offers for 2012. Well, your wish is our command!
1) Our SUPER SPECIAL offer for the week of 25.02.2012 in SUDAN
Book your places now for our February 25 – March 3, 2012 Sudan-North tour and we offer you a 15% discount from our regular boat rate.
2) The ULTIMATE 2 WEEKS in Sudan: Book your places now for our 14 – 28 April, 2012 Sudan North + South tour!
We provide all-encompassing services onboard and off. We take care of the Sudanese visas for the guests and provide assistance and arrangements in Cairo as well.
And if there is anything else we can help you with our you wish to make a booking, please contact us!
Upload a Christmas card onto our Facebook Cassiopeiasafari message wall and win!
We all agree that Christmas is about giving. That is why we are also getting ready to surprise someone with a diving safari! Upload a Christmas card that you have created onto our Facebook Cassiopeiasafari message wall. On the card somewhere you should display the sign “Cassiopeia Safari”! The person who shares the card that gets the most “likes” wins an Egyptian diving safari!
To demonstrate what we are thinking of
What do you have to do?
Create a card with a Christmas and diving/sea theme. Hide somewhere the sign “Cassiopeia Safari” and upload in onto the Cassiopeiasafari Facebook page! The creator of the card with the most “likes” can start packing and get ready for the prize safari!
The course of the game:
We would like to see the sign “Cassiopeia Safari” dressed up in Christmas clothes! Following this post, you have 7 days to upload your cards onto the Cassiopeiasafari Facebook page and there is additional day available for voting. The creator of the card with the most “likes” will receive an Egyptian diving safari for 1 person onboard M/Y Cassiopeia on a designated date by us. The safari contains 7 nights full-board accommodations onboard in double cabins, transfers between Hurghada Airport and the boat, diving, taxes and shisha (waterpipe) onboard.
Rules of the game:
- only registered members can send cards, so first “like” our page then upload your card
- the sign “Cassiopeia Safari” must be visible and readable
- one registered member can upload only 1 card
- there are no restrictions on the techniques used to create the card
Submissions and deadlines:
Upload the card onto the Cassiopeiasafari Facebook page following this post until December 14, 2012 22:00.
Voting and deadlines:
“Likes” may be registered for 7 days following this post, until December 15, 2012 14:00.
Announcement of the winner:
On December 15, 2012 at 14:00.
The winner will be notified by e-mail.
Important!
The prize is not transferable and cannot be exchanged for cash.
Get away to Egypt for some winter sun and some of the best scuba diving to be found in the World.
The luxurious M/Y Cassiopeia Liveaboard is offering the following spectacular last minute offer for the following cruise date. Some places are still available on this incredibly – priced, low season scuba diving safari.
Available:26 November to 03 December 2011 South Trip, 10 places for sale!
Don’t delay, this offer sell out fast! For more details contact us!
I was born in Szombathely in March 1976 as the youngest son of a simple but all the more loving family. My father taught me to swim when I was very young, but in spite of the fact that I already felt completely safe in the water at that time, my interest in underwater life only extended as far as fishing and keenly awaited new editions of a TV nature program called Delta. I was a 15 year old teenager when I first saw the sea during an outing to Italy. This story would be a beautiful one, if I could say here that there was love at first sight between the sea and the boy from Szombathely.
However, since what I am trying to write now should be a real biography, I must confess that there were no blue waves and no colourful fish shoals at all. Around that particular area the sea looked more like Shrek’s swamp than anything else.
It wasn’t until the long awaited big encounter during a weekend in Croatia in 2003 that I finally fell into eternal love with the underwater world. For four days, from dawn to dusk, I did nothing else but lie on the water and gaze at the fish through some goggles. I only found out later that what I was doing was actually snorkelling, and that even in Hungary it was possible to complete a diving course. I knew then that I wanted to be a diver, and since then I have been devoting every free moment I have to this sport. I am a qualified NAUI instructor now.
Just like diving, film-making was completely unfamiliar territory for me at first. However, I quickly decided that I would not be satisfied if it was only me who saw the wonders of the undersea world. I want to share with the whole word what we experience down in the depths. After some nights spent at home looking at photos with the family, this approach seemed inadequate and I soon exchanged my camera for a camcorder. It quickly became clear that working with motion pictures is more my scene. At first I simply filmed everything that moved, but later I started to be able to find and develop a theme, and capture it properly as a moving image. My first camcorder was followed by a better one, later by a much better one, and then by the best. Of course, film-making is much rather a profession than a hobby, and I have always wanted to get as much training as possible so that I can make better and better films. In 2008 I graduated to HD filming and obtained a Sony PMW-EX3 XDcam, which is currently one of the highest quality professional video cameras that can be taken underwater. Since then I have made recordings and films for several TV channels and I have filmed above and below water in more than 40 countries. I have shot scenes and actions in oceans, seas, caves and wrecks, and have received prizes in many international film festivals as a fruit of my work. I hope many more follow these, as diving and my camera have grown together.
Soon it will be September and you have not taken your vacation yet? Would you rather escape from the coming fall and the cold? It is not too late! Book now one of the last available places on our tours starting on the following dates!
Have we mentioned that Longimanus have been seen again in August at Elphinstone? It has been a tradition for years that around August and September the Oceanic Whitetip sharks (Longimanus) appear at Elphinstone for some unknown reason. For the past few weeks 5 beautiful specimens have been staying near the reef and posing for the joy of divers.
Here are the diving safari dates in Egypt for the months of September, October and November:
Sep. 4 – 11. 2011 — M/Y Cassiopeia — Brothers tour
Sep. 18 – 25, 2011 — M/Y Cassiopeia — St Johns tour
Sep. 28 – Oct. 5, 2011 — M/Y Andromeda — North and Tiran tour
Oct. 27 – Nov. 3, 2011 — M/Y Andromeda — St Johns tour
Nov. 9 – 16, 2011 — M/Y Andromeda — North and Tiran tour
Nov. 16 – 23, 2011 — M/Y Andromeda — Daedalus and Elphinstone tour
Would you like to come? Get in touch with us via the contact us page!
From now on free WIFI Internet connection is available in Egypt to divers on both of our boats – M/Y Cassiopeia and M/Y Andromeda.
Internet connection has become a necessity these days, whether for work or entertainment or to be available for us during our holidays. In order to satisfy these demands, we have equipped both boats with WIFI internet connection. We are happy we were able to synchronise the technical advances of our age and the demand of guests for Internet connection in a way as not to present any additional expenses to the divers during the safaris.
Thanks to this improvement, divers onboard M/Y Cassiopeia and M/Y Andromeda can surf the Net free of charge on their notebooks or other devices with WLAN connection, starting in the summer of 2011. Today almost all portable computers and most smart phones are WIFI-enabled.
Free Internet connection gives divers the chance to follow their e-mails during their safari, to keep in touch with family and friends and to share their photos taken on the trips on their community pages before arriving home.
Of course, this is not mandatory , so those of you who wish to keep your holiday restful and free of any interruptions, you may leave your devices turned off.
Temperatures in Egypt now are around the usual 30C, just like in Europe except for the gentle northerly winds that sooth us from the heat and allows us to dip in the Red Sea any time. And one more good thing for divers these days in Egypt, that the reefs will surely not be crowded and the marine life is still just as rich and abundant as any other time during the year.
Here are a couple of summer weeks where you can find places for your next safari:
1. August 14-21, 2011 — M/Y Cassiopeia — St Johns/Abu Fandira tour
2. August 17-24, 2011 — M/Y Andromeda — St Johns tour
About rates and further details of the tours contact us or click here.
There was an amazing race for “likes” on our Facebook group page this past week. The prize was an Egyptian diving safari for 2. A tremendous number of “likes” were given to the pictures as we were witnesses to a serious head-to-head race. Only a few hours before the end of the race, it still seemed like the dice may turn…
Let’s start with the most important – the esteemed winner of our game is Stepan Shulga, collecting a total of 654 “likes”. Once again congratulations to Stepan and his substantial voting group of friends . We wish you a great safari filled with lots of things to see! We have already contacted the winner and he can be on his way with a friend to their well-deserved prize of Egyptian safari!
The Winner:
Just to recap:
We called on all our diver and non-diver members between June 8 and 14 to upload pictures onto our Facebook group site with the writing “Andromeda safari” displayed, preferably in the most creative ways. After that things got simple as all was to be done was to collect enough “Likes” to reward the owner of the most enduring and lasting picture with the most “Likes” with an Egyptian safari for 2.
We can say with certainty that our game has reached its purpose – we were able to make a player happy and at the same time we were able to liven up our Facebook community in a usual but effective way. We thank for this all the ones who had posted the pictures and all those who had voted! Of course we are curious to hear about your experiences, suggestions and what you thought of the game.
I was born in Szombathely in March 1976 as the youngest son of a simple but all the more loving family. My father taught me to swim when I was very young, but in spite of the fact that I already felt completely safe in the water at that time, my interest in underwater life only extended as far as fishing and keenly awaited new editions of a TV nature program called Delta. I was a 15 year old teenager when I first saw the sea during an outing to Italy. This story would be a beautiful one, if I could say here that there was love at first sight between the sea and the boy from Szombathely.
