Sharm El Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt
The name dates back to the early 1970s, when the first divers came across three large coral towers that recalled the columns of an ancient temple. The main pinnacle has a crack down the middle, opened by the 1995 earthquake in Sharm El Sheikh, which forms a passage, and another pinnacle has a swim-through that exits vertically. The main pinnacle also holds an amphora that came from the wreck at the Amphoras site.
Octopus hide in the reef cracks. Nudibranchs and scorpion fish are also seen at the site, and there is a good chance of finding moray eels and turtles. Parrotfish, lionfish and dense schools of batfish also live at Temple, and on the drop-off there is a solitary gorgonian. Being close to Sharm El Sheikh and Naama Bay, it is a very popular night-dive site, when the basket stars open like a curtain to feed.
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