TREKKING IN SINIA MT. PROGRAM | Cairo - St. Catherine 7 days
TREKKING IN SINIA MT. PROGRAM | Cairo - St. Catherine 7 days
Location
DAY 01: Arrival Cairo
Arrival at Cairo International Airport, meet our representative and assistance through Passport control formalities, luggage Identification and portage، then transfer to the hotel. In the evening (depending on flight time arrival) we visit the local market of Khan el-Khalili Bazaar, which sprawls around an old area of Cairo known as Al Azhar. (Optional) Accommodation and overnight at hotel in Cairo.
DAY 02: CAIRO - SANTA CATHARINE
Breakfast at the hotel, and a briefing from our tour leader, travel in A/c Jeep 4x4 from Cairo to Sinai, crossing Suez Canal through Ahmed Hamdi tunnel. Upon arrival, check in and relaxing in the hotel, lunch before going up Moses Mountain 2258 meters to enjoy seeing the sunset view. Slowly after sunset, we are going down Mouse's Mountain to take our cars to the hotel. Accommodation and overnight at hotel or Local camp - St. Catherine.
DAY 03: SANTA CATHERINE - WADI GEBAL
Breakfast; drive to enjoy visiting St. Catherine Monastery We load the food and all the equipment onto camels and start our trekking tour in Wadi Gebal (the Mountains valley). We enjoy trekking in the lovely mountains landscape، Lunch on the way and spend the night camping under the stars. Overnight and dinner in the open air in Wadi Gebal.
"St. Catherine's Monastery, was constructed by order of the Emperor Justinian between 527 and 565. It is built around what is thought to be Moses' Burning Bush, which has a chapel built atop it. It is a spectacular natural setting for priceless works of art, including Arab mosaics, Greek and Russian icons, Western oil paintings, paintings on wax, fine sacerdotal ornaments, marbles, enamels, chalices, reliquaries, including one donated by Czar Alexander II in the 19th century, and another by Empress Catherine of Russia in the 17th century. But of perhaps even greater significance is that it is one of the largest and most important collection of illuminated manuscripts in the world (The Vatican has the largest). The collection consists of some 4,500 volumes in Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Slavic, Syriac, Georgian and other language."
DAY 04 & DAY 05: TREKKING IN WADI GEBAL
Breakfast in the open air, we load the food and all the equipment onto camels and continue our trekking tour in Wadi Gebal , We enjoy trekking in the lovely mountains landscape، Lunch on the way and spend the night camping under the stars. Overnight and dinner in the open air in Wadi Gebal.
DAY 06: WADI GEBAL - SANTA CATHERINE - CAIRO
Breakfast in the open air, Come down to meet our cars again to St. Catharine, Free time in the city until lunch. Light safari lunch, drive returning to Cairo. Check in and relaxing at the hotel in Cairo.
DAY 07: CAIRO - FINAL DEPARTURE
Breakfast at the hotel, free time till the departure time. If there is enough time, you can enjoy sightseeing of the old Cairo; visit the Citadel, Islamic and Coptic area (Optional). Transfer with our steward to Cairo International airport for the final departure.
"The citadel, was constructed by Salah El Din on the Moqattam hills in 1183 AD overlooking the whole city to be his defensive point against the attacks of the Crusaders. Salah El Din appointed to be the governor of Egypt after the death of the Sultan of Damascus, Noor-el-Din. The mosque is situated in the Citadel of Cairo in Egypt and commissioned by Muhammad Ali Pasha between 1830 and 1848. Situated on the summit of the citadel, this Ottoman mosque, the largest to be built in the first half of the 19th century, is, with its animated silhouette and twin minarets, the most visible mosque in Cairo. The mosque was built in memory of Tusun Pasha, Muhammad Ali's oldest son, who died in 1816."
