Trip to St. Catherine's Monastery & Mount Sinai, Saint Catherine, Egypt
Trip to St. Catherine's Monastery & Mount Sinai, Saint Catherine, Egypt
Trip to St. Catherine's Monastery & Mount Sinai, Saint Catherine, Egypt
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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
Itinerary
The Town of St. Katherine
Mount Sinai
5 hoursAdmission Ticket IncludedMount 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.- AccommodationsOvernight at St. Catherine Village, 3 Stars HotelFood And DrinksDinner - Enjoy a variety of Egyptian menu food out of your preferences at the Hotel's Restaurant
Sainte Catherine's Monastery
St. Catherine's Monastery
2 hoursAdmission Ticket IncludedSaint 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.- Food And DrinksBreakfast - Enjoy a variety of Egyptian menu food out of your preferences at the Hotel's Restaurant
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Egypt Tours World
SGD 729.30
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