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Travellers swimming off a boat in the Red Sea near Dahab

7 days · Dahab & Nuweiba · 12 seats

The Sinai
Loop

You'll arrive alone.You won't leave alone.

  • Solo travellers only
  • Friends or your money back
  • 12 years in South Sinai
  • No single supplement
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Why this trip exists

Come alone.
That's the point.

In twelve years I kept watching the same thing happen. Someone shows up on their own, has the best day of their trip with us — and then goes back to a hostel and eats dinner by themselves.

So I built the trip I kept wishing I could send them on. Every seat belongs to someone who booked it by themselves. No couples. No families. No group of six who already know each other. Twelve people. One week. One loop.

A traveller mid-leap in the Sinai desert
  • 12

    New friends

    Twelve strangers. One long table. Every night.

  • 6

    Nights included

    Shared rooms. No single supplement, ever.

  • 14

    Meals included

    Breakfast and dinner, all seven days.

  • 0

    Extra costs

    Transfers, boats, jeeps, snorkel gear. Done.

The loop · day by day

Seven days.
One circle.

Day 01Dahab · The LagunaDahab · The Laguna
Clear shallow reef water along the coast below desert hillsHazy blue mountains behind the Red Sea coastReef fish in the Red Sea off Dahab

Landing & the Laguna

Arrive, drop your bag, meet the eleven strangers you're about to spend a week with. We walk down to the Laguna for sunset — flat turquoise water, the mountains going pink behind you. Then a barbecue on the sand, and the introductions that actually matter.

  • Sunset at the Laguna
  • Beach BBQ
  • Meet the crew
Day 02Blue Hole · Abu Galum · Blue LagoonBlue Hole · Abu Galum · Blue Lagoon
A painted doorway looking out to the Red SeaCamel with a saddle walking along a Red Sea beachDeep blue water along the rocky Sinai coast near Dahab

The Triple

The big one, on day two on purpose. Snorkel the Blue Hole — a 100-metre sinkhole with a reef wall you reach straight from the beach. Speedboat north to Ras Abu Galum, a protected Bedouin coast with no road in. Bedouin lunch on the sand, then the Blue Lagoon.

  • Blue Hole
  • Speedboat north
  • Bedouin lunch
  • Blue Lagoon
Day 03Dahab · On footDahab · On foot
Seafront café with a reed roof looking out to the Red SeaSeaside building with bicycles by the Red Sea at duskKitesurfers on the Red Sea in front of the Sinai mountains

Slow day

No alarm. This day is in the itinerary because seven days of jeeps breaks people. Sleep in, eat, walk the promenade, snorkel the Eel Garden straight off the beach, find a hammock. Optional: your first ever scuba dive, in one of the easiest sites on earth.

  • Free morning
  • Eel Garden
  • Discover Scuba
Day 04Red Sea · Tawilat MountainRed Sea · Tawilat Mountain
Calm bay and beach seen through leaves, mountains behindTraveller in a headscarf sitting on a rock under a cloudy skyGranite peaks and valleys of the high Sinai mountains

Yacht & fire

On the water by 8:30. Swimming off the back of the boat, snorkelling over untouched reef, lunch and drinks on deck, nobody in a hurry. Back at four. Then at half eight, up into the mountains for Bedouin tea, a fire show, tanoura, and a sky with no light pollution in it.

  • Full-day yacht
  • Lunch aboard
  • Fire show
  • Bedouin tea
Day 05Nuweiba · Ras ShaitanNuweiba · Ras Shaitan
Windsurfers on the Red Sea by a palm-lined beach in DahabSilhouette of a camel on a desert ridge at sunsetA group of travellers in a canyon in South Sinai

North to Nuweiba

We leave Dahab and drive the coast road north. Nuweiba is quieter, emptier, stranger — the mountains of Saudi Arabia sit right across the water. We take a boat out to fish, and whatever you catch is what you eat. Sleep in a beach camp, door open, feet in the sand.

  • Coast drive
  • Fishing trip
  • You catch it they cook it
  • Beach camp
Day 06St Catherine · Mount SinaiSt Catherine · Mount Sinai
Hikers resting on a rocky summit in the Sinai mountains at sunriseRed mountain ridges of South Sinai at dawnWide view over the rocky mountains of South Sinai

The mountain

The jeeps leave in the dark. You climb Mount Moses in the cold with a headtorch and reach the summit for sunrise — 2,285 metres, the whole peninsula turning gold underneath you. Down to St Catherine's Monastery, one of the oldest working monasteries on earth. Then back to Dahab, and sleep.

  • Pre-dawn climb
  • Sunrise summit
  • The Monastery
Day 07Dahab → CairoDahab → Cairo
Walking between the red walls of a Sinai canyonRocky canyon above a desert valley in South SinaiKitesurfers on the Red Sea in front of the Sinai mountains

Last swim

Slow breakfast. One last swim. Everyone swaps numbers and pretends they're not sad about it. We put you on the bus to Cairo, and you spend ten hours looking out of the window thinking about the week you just had.

  • Farewell breakfast
  • Final swim
  • Cairo bus

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Seven days looks like this

Travellers swimming off a boat in the Red Sea near DahabThe whole group eating dinner together at one long tableThe Blue Hole in Dahab from aboveWalking between the red walls of a Sinai canyonSun rising over layered mountain ridges in SinaiPalm-lined street with shops and cafés in DahabBedouin guide with saddled camels on a rocky mountain trail in SinaiTurquoise lagoon between desert mountains on the Sinai coastMorning light on the sandstone peaks of the Sinai mountainsSunset over the sea with swimmers and palm trees on the shoreSeafront café with a reed roof looking out to the Red SeaDeep blue water along the rocky Sinai coast near DahabTraveller in a headscarf sitting on a rock under a cloudy skyHazy blue mountains behind the Red Sea coastGranite boulders and cliffs on a Sinai mountain pathGlass ball on a cliff with a coastal town and the Red Sea behindCamel with a saddle walking along a Red Sea beachGranite peaks and valleys of the high Sinai mountainsCalm bay and beach seen through leaves, mountains behindHikers resting on a rocky summit in the Sinai mountains at sunriseClear shallow reef water along the coast below desert hillsRed mountain ridges of South Sinai at dawnSilhouette of a camel on a desert ridge at sunsetWindsurfers on the Red Sea by a palm-lined beach in Dahab
The whole group eating dinner together at one long table
The table rule

Nobody eats alone.
Not once, in 7 days.

Dinner is served on one long table, every night, for everyone. It's the single most important thing we do — and the reason people leave this trip with a group chat that's still alive two years later.

You don't have to be the outgoing one. You don't have to work for it. You just show up and sit down.

Mathew
12Years in Sinai
Who you're going with

Twelve years
on this coast.

I'm Mathew. I've been organising trips in Dahab and Nuweiba for twelve years — not from an office in Cairo, from here.

Long enough to know which Bedouin driver turns up on time and which one doesn't. Which boat captain knows the reef and which one just owns a boat. Which camp in Nuweiba has the good cook and which one only has the good view.

I'm on the trip. All seven days. Not a guide who hands you off at the airport.

MathewDahab Go · South Sinai

The offer

Everything you get.
Nothing you don't.

Doing this trip yourself costs about $250 — plus forty arguments with taxi drivers, three days of research, and eating every dinner alone. Here's the other option.

The Sinai Loop — 7 days, 6 nightsDahab & Nuweiba. Beds, breakfast, dinner, every transfer, all snorkel gear, every activity.
$800
The Friends-or-Free GuaranteeNo friends by day three? Full refund, and I put you on a bus home.
Priceless
The Pre-Trip CallTwo weeks before, you meet all eleven of them on a video call. You land already knowing faces.
$100
A photographer, all 7 daysYou fly home with a full album. Not phone photos — an actual record of the week.
$400
Discover Scuba at the Blue HoleYour first ever dive, in one of the easiest sites on earth.
$70
Cairo bus — both waysBooked for you. You just get on it.
$40
The crew group chatYours for life. Most of them are still going.
Included
Loop Alumni rate — locked foreverCome back on any future departure at this price. For life.
Included
Total value$1,410
Your price · everything in$800

Friends
or free.

Come alone. If by the end of day three you haven't made a single friend — tell me. I'll put you on a bus home and refund every dollar.

No forms. No argument. No "let's talk about it".

How can I promise that?Because I choose who's on the trip. Twelve people, hand-picked, all travelling alone. I'm not selling seats to whoever clicks first — I'm building a group. That's the only reason a guarantee like this is possible.
The seats

Twelve people.
One departure.

The one you want

The Loop

$800per person · everything in

  • 7 days, 6 nights, Dahab & Nuweiba
  • Shared rooms — no single supplement
  • Breakfast + dinner every day
  • All transfers, boats, jeeps, gear
  • Photographer, pre-trip call, Cairo bus
  • Friends-or-Free guarantee
  • Eleven other people who came alone

Also available

The Loop, Private

$2,400per person

  • Private room, every night
  • Your own jeep and guide
  • Your own schedule
  • No group. No table. No strangers.

A few people ask for this every year. I'll run it if you want it. But you'd be paying three times as much to remove the entire point of the trip.

New dates are coming. Apply now and you will hear first.

Apply now
How to get on

You don't book.
You apply.

I know how that sounds. Here's why it's not a gimmick:

The group is the product. If I sold seats to whoever paid first, I couldn't promise you'd like them — and the whole trip falls apart. So I read every application, and I pick the twelve.

It takes two minutes. Most people get in. The ones who don't are usually couples trying to sneak on.

  1. Message me on WhatsAppThree questions. Two minutes. Written by you, read by me.
  2. I reply — usually within the hourIf it's a fit, I send you the deposit link. If it's not, I'll tell you straight and why.
  3. $150 holds your seatBalance in cash when you land. Free cancellation up to 14 days out.
  4. You're in the group chat that nightThe friendships start before the plane does.

The three questions

That's it. No CV, no interview, no video. I just need to know I'm putting the right twelve people at the same table.

Or open WhatsApp without the form
What people say

Don't take
my word for it.

Every review below is from someone who actually travelled with us. If you've been on one of our trips, we'd love you to add yours.

We've just moved our reviews to Google.

Twelve years of trips, and we're only now doing this properly. If you've travelled with us — in a week, a year, or ten years ago — your review is the most valuable thing you can give us.

Takes two minutes. It's how a small operation like ours survives.

Come alone.
Leave with eleven.

Message me. I'll answer myself — usually within the hour. Ask me anything, including the uncomfortable stuff.

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