Landing on one of the Daymaniyat Islands
The islands are beautiful, but landing is not a must. The landing is the shortest part of the trip, for us only around 20 minutes or so. You can walk to the top of the island (only a couple of minutes walk) for a lovely view and sit on the beach or swim in the clear turquoise water, but in honesty I wouldn’t have been overly sad to miss it.
I only say this because I met people in October who were sad they couldn’t land, but honestly I don’t think it’s a big deal – that is unless you wanted to camp on the islands because that did look very cool!
On that note, between November and April you can opt to spend the night on one of the islands and we saw lines of tents already set up for people. It looked like a rustic back to nature experience and gets great reviews.
One of the things that’s extra special about this is that they often spot bioluminescence on the shore at night, which would be so magical. Camping trips were a lot more expensive and sadly out of our budget, but it did look like it would be a very memorable experience.
The one thing I would say though that if you go with a standard operator on a group tour then it’s not very private as the tents were all lined up very close to each other.
