Abdeen Trip Overview
Private Tour 2 Days 1 Night runs every day except for Thursday & Saturday, includes Pick up service from your hotel in Cairo & back, transfer to Catherine & back by a private Air Conditioned vehicle, Accommodation in Catherine for 1 night at 4* Hotel on half board basis, Entrance fees, English-Speaking guide, Bottled water, Bedouin guide during climbing the mountain and All taxes and service charges.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 days
Starts: Abdeen, Egypt
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Private Tour 2 Days 1 Night runs every day except for Thursday & Saturday, includes Pick up service from your hotel in Cairo & back, transfer to Catherine & back by a private Air Conditioned vehicle, Accommodation in Catherine for 1 night at 4* Hotel on half board basis, Entrance fees, English-Speaking guide, Bottled water, Bedouin guide during climbing the mountain and All taxes and service charges.
Itinerary
Day 1: Check in your hotel to relax and overnight in your hotel
Stop At: St Catherine Shop, Palmyra Three Corners, Nabq Bay, Sharm El Sheikh Egypt
Emo Tours representative will pick you up by a modern air-conditioned vehicle from your hotel in Cairo then drive to St, Catherine for about 10 or 11 hours as we will go Catherine City Via Sharm Road. Check in your hotel to relax and overnight in your hotel.
Duration: 8 hours
Stop At: South Sinai, South Sinai, Red Sea and Sinai
Early morning departure; follow Moses’ exodus journey. On the way to Sinai we will stop at the Suez Canal which links the Mediterranean and Red Seas. From there we will cross from Africa to Asia where we will visit Marah where Moses took a wooden log and threw it into the water making the bitter water sweet. We will then drive to Elim where manna and quail came from heaven. Then we will drive to Raphadime where in the book of Exodus Moses sent Joshua to fight the Amalakites. There Moses built an altar that he called ‘Lord is my Banner’. Arrival to Sinai, dinner and overnight in Sinai (St. Catherine)
Duration: 6 hours
Meals included:
• Dinner
Accommodation included: in Catherine for 01 night at 04* Hotel on half board basis
Day 2: Moses Mountain
Stop At: Mount Sinai, Saint Catherine 46512 Egypt
In the early morning at 02:00 am you will be picked up from your hotel and transferred to Moses Mountain and you will be accompanied with Bedouin Guide as an expert to Guide you to climb the sacred mountain.
After you climb the mountain and go down at about 07 Oclock you will be guided to visit St, Catherine Monastery, which is considered one of the most famous monasteries in the world. The monastery was dedicated to one of Alexander’s rulers, St Catherine, who was tortured to death for the sake of her new faith. After that, you will have your breakfast at the hotel & drive back to Cairo.
Duration: 8 hours
Stop At: St. Catherine’s Monastery, At the Foot of Mount Horeb, Saint Catherine Egypt
St Katherine Protectorate is an Egyptian national park in the south of Sinai. It encloses most of the mountainous area of central South Sinai, including the country’s highest mountain, Mount Catherine at 2,629 metres (8,625 ft) above sea level.
In 2002, a 640 km2 area demarcated by the ‘Ring Dyke’ within the Protectorate core was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. The listed area includes the highest mountains in the Protectorate, including Mount Sinai and the Saint Catherine’s Monastery. In September 2001 a delegation from ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) conducted a site review and the site and their recommendations are included in the listing memorandum. A site visit by IUCN, the administrative agency for Natural Sites, was conducted in December 2002. It was proposed that the site be redesignated as ‘An Associative Cultural Landscape’. World Heritage status brings higher protection and international
Duration: 2 hours
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
