Magawish Island Snorkeling & Parasailing Day Trip from Hurghada

Most days on the Red Sea happen at the surface. This one has three levels: face-down over the reef, on deck for a lunch you didn’t have to plan, and — clipped into a harness with the boat shrinking beneath you — high enough to see the whole of Magawish, its sandbanks and the long blue shelf of the Giftun Islands in a single look.

The morning starts with a pickup from your Hurghada hotel and a short drive to the marina, where a spacious day boat heads south along the coast. The first snorkelling stop is over a coral wall that drops away into deep blue: shoals of reef fish, coral heads, the odd curious wrasse. Then Magawish itself — pale sand, water so clear it hardly looks wet, and time to swim, sunbathe, or do nothing at all.

Then the speedboat comes for you. The parachute fills, the rope pays out, and within seconds the noise is gone. From 40 to 50 metres up, the reef you swam over is a dark map under turquoise, the island is a comma of sand, and Hurghada is a thin line at the desert’s edge. Five minutes or so of that quiet is enough to change how big you think the Red Sea is.

Everything else is handled: hotel transfers, a snorkelling guide, mask, fins and life jacket, national park entry, a buffet lunch served on board, and soft and hot drinks all day. A second reef stop rounds off the afternoon before you’re back at your hotel. Free cancellation up to 12 hours before departure, and you can reserve now and pay later.