St-cathrine Monastery and Mount Sinai From Dahab (sunset)

St-cathrine Monastery and Mount Sinai From Dahab (sunset)

Travel through the Day to visit one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world, St. Catherine, built around the site of the Burning Bush. after start climb the Mount Sinai in during the day to see the sunset from atop Moses' Mountain

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Stop At: Dahab Plaza Hotel, Dahab City Center, Dahab, 11511, Egypt

We leave Dahab at 8 in the morning and drive for 2 hours to visit St. Catherine's Monastery. We will have the choice of either returning to Dahab to be back around 1 in afternoon, or climbing Mount Sinai to see the sunset . If we climb Mount Sinai, we will back in Dahab around 9 at night. Visit the Moses Mount and Monastery of Saint Catherine which is considered one of the most famous monasteries in the world and also it's one of the oldest monasteries of Christianity. It’s located in heart of Sinai Peninsula at a height of 1570 meters in the place where according to the tradition Moses saw the bush on fire which didn’t burn up .The Monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The monastery dates back to the age of the emperor Justinian 6th century. It was the same time of building enclosure wall surrounding the monastery right now but the monastery was named Saint Catherine at the beginning of the 11th century in honor of saint Catherine, one of the earliest Alexandria Christians martyrs. It contains several monuments like the burning bush seen by Moses, and the remarkable Icons Gallery


Duration: 12 hours