Trip to St. Catherine's Monastery & Mount Sinai, Saint Catherine, Egypt

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Duration2 days
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LanguagesArabic, German, English, Italian, French, Spanish
Private tourOnly your group will participate
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Overview

The Trip starts from Cairo: The town of St. Katherine is in the Sinai peninsula in Egypt at an elevation of about 1600 meters from sea level, at the foot of the Sinai High Mountains. Up to a thousand visitors come to visit St. Katherine's Monastery, the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the World built on the site where Moses (Prophet Musa) talked to God in the miracle of the Burning Bush, and to climb Mt. Sinai (the Biblical Mt. Horeb, known locally as Jebel Musa) where Moses has received the Ten Commandments.

Pick you up from your hotel and start our tour to South Sinai/Sainte Catherine (7 hours drive)

Check in Saint Catherine tourist village (dinner is included)

Wake up call at 2:00 am for the visit of mount Sinai.

Tea/coffee included before our visit to mount Sinai (one and a half hour or 2 hours walking up the mount to see sunrise)

Go down to visit Saint Catherine's monastery in the early morning

After breakfast, drive back to Cairo to your hotel in Cairo

What's included

  • Private transportation
  • Baggage storage and transfer
  • Providing a pick up and drop off services
  • Professional licensed Tour guide specialist in Egyptology
  • Dinner
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Breakfast
  • Sealed mineral bottled water
  • Gratuities

What to expect

Day 1: The Town of St. Katherine
  1. Mount Sinai
    5h · Admission ticket included
    Mount Sinai also known as Mount Horeb or Gabal Musa, is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt that is a possible location of the biblical Mount Sinai, which is considered a holy site by the Abrahamic religions. Mount Sinai is mentioned many times in the Book of Exodus and other books of the Bible,[1] and the Quran.[2] According to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition, the biblical Mount Sinai was the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
Day 2: Sainte Catherine's Monastery
  1. Mount Saint Catherine Monastery
    2h · Admission ticket included
    Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai, near the town of Saint Catherine, Egypt. The monastery is controlled by the autonomous Church of Sinai, part of the wider Eastern Orthodox Church, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

    Built between 548 and 565, the monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world. The site contains the world's oldest continually operating library, possessing many unique books including the Syriac Sinaiticus and, until 1859, the Codex Sinaiticus.

Additional information

  • Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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