Itinerary

1. Day 1: Sinai Mountain Camping

   • Meet your representative from your hotel at 10:00 am and transfer by private car to the city of St. Catherine, which will take 3 hours. 
   • When you get to the city of Saint Catherine, you will start hiking Mount Sinai with a professional guide. It is 2285 meters above sea level There is a road to the peak, with the camel path or you can follow the Abbas basha trail which takes 3 hours. 
   • Reach the top and watch the sunset, have dinner at the top of the mountain and enjoy the stars. 

   Overnight in a tent. 

2. Day 2: Saint Catherine Monastery

   • Watch the sunrise from the top and have breakfast. 
   • After breakfast, you will start to move down from the top to the camel trail.
   • You will arrive beside the building of the monastery and go up to see the panorama of the monastery. 
   • Enter the St. Catherine monastery. On the slopes of Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God, is located one of the oldest working monasteries in the world. Commonly known as Saint Catherine's Monastery, its actual name is "The Holy Monastery of God on Mount Sinai". It was built by order of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (527-565 AD) in 548-565 AD to house the monks who had been living in the Sinai Peninsula since the fourth century AD. St. Catherine was martyred in the early fourth century AD, as the monastery bears her name because her monks discovered her body near Mount St. Catherine in the ninth century AD, where she was placed by angels after her martyrdom.
   • You can see multiple structures, the most important of which is the Church of the Transfiguration of Christ the Savior, which in itself includes nine smaller churches. One of these churches is the burning church at which God spoke to the Prophet Moses.  St. Catherine's Monastery also includes ten other churches, monks' quarters, a refectory, an olive press, burial caskets, a 12th-century Fatimid mosque, and a library of rare books and 6000 manuscripts. 
   • After visiting the monastery, you will visit the golden calf and the tomb of Prophet Harun.