The Underwater Observatory Marine Park

Eilat is famed for its spectacular offshore world but if you don’t fancy taking the plunge in wetsuit and flippers you needn’t miss out on the resort’s greatest wow factor. The unique Underwater Observatory is a kind of ‘live aquarium’ where the exhibits are ever-changing. Here you can descend a (disabled accessible) six metre shaft to viewing rooms surrounded by natural coral reef to see all manner of colourful visitors at the windows.

Elsewhere on the site, 35 traditional aquariums, fed by natural sea water, help you learn more about the marine life of the Red Sea including sharks, stingrays, turtles, sea horses and colourful tropical fish. Guides in every room can tell you more about the amazing creatures you’re viewing like males that give birth, fish that disguise themselves as rocks to catch their prey and mammals that swim while they’re asleep. You can also watch divers enter the tanks during regular feeding sessions. There’s even a dark room where you can experience the luminous fish and coral that live in the deepest waters of the Red Sea.