{"id":2787,"date":"2016-06-24T11:25:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T11:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2016-06-23T04:26:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T04:26:20","slug":"manta-ray-season-red-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/manta-ray-season-red-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Manta Ray Season in the Red Sea (Sudan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/liveaboards\/vessels\/sudan\/sdn\">Sudan<\/a>, Africa\u2019s largest country, stretches 2,000km north to south yet has just 853km of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/countries\/egypt\/egy\">Red Sea<\/a> coastline, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/countries\/egypt\/egy\">Egypt<\/a> has 2,450km. Still its marine life is so rich that Sudan ranks amongst the world\u2019s top dive destinations.<\/p>\n<p>We have some fantastic liveaboard itineraries on offer that cover a multitude of amazing dive sites from\u00a0Merlo you&#8217;ll\u00a0follow North East Merlo, Angarosh, Abington\u00a0and down south to\u00a0Qita el Banna, Sha&#8217;ab Rumi, Sanganeb and, finally, the wreck of Umbria. You&#8217;ll have a great chance of seeing schools of jackfish, sex fasciatus with ignobilis, Gray Sharks and Whitetip sharks all swimming slowly, quiet and close, perfect for filming and photos.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention Hammerheads, Barracudas, tons of groupers of various shapes and sizes, beautiful corals hard and soft corals.<\/p>\n<p>Sound good?!<\/p>\n<p>To book a trip on the Dolce Vita visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/liveaboards\/vessels\/sudan\/sdn\/dolce-vita\/17\">www.planetdiveholidays.com\/liveaboards\/vessels\/sudan\/sdn\/dolce-vita\/17<\/a> or give our experts a call on +44 (0)1273 921 001.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2788\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/manta-ray-season-red-sea\/dolce\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dolce.png\" data-orig-size=\"800,478\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dolce vita\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dolce-250x149.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dolce.png\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dolce.png\" alt=\"dolce vita\" width=\"800\" height=\"478\" data-wp-pid=\"2788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dolce.png 800w, https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dolce-250x149.png 250w, https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dolce-768x459.png 768w, https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dolce-600x359.png 600w, https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dolce-750x448.png 750w, https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dolce-380x227.png 380w, https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dolce-200x120.png 200w, https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dolce-310x185.png 310w, https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dolce-360x215.png 360w, https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dolce-260x155.png 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <span data-scayt_word=\"Liveaboard\" data-scaytid=\"2\">Liveaboard<\/span> safari on board Dolce Vita may well be the &#8216;Sweet Life&#8217; its name suggests. Built in Alexandria&#8217;s leading shipyard in Dolce Vita is well suited to long range cruising in the remote sites of Sudan&#8217;s Red Sea. The special attention to detail makes diving aboard Dolce Vita a relaxed, comfortable diving experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sudan, Africa\u2019s largest country, stretches 2,000km north to south yet has just 853km of Red Sea coastline, Egypt&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[382,218,224,219,220,185],"tags":[158,87],"class_list":{"0":"post-2787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-barracudas","8":"category-collections","9":"category-hammerheads","10":"category-manta-rays","11":"category-sharks","12":"category-sudan","13":"tag-mantas","14":"tag-red-sea","15":"post_format-post-format-video","16":"cs-entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}