Mount Sinai (Egypt)

Wow, what can I say? I visted mount sinai in July 2008. With a slight background faith in Christianity I wondered what climbing Mount sinai might make me feel or think. We began our climb at 2.30am after very little sleep. I was at the top just after 4am and I would say anyone with average fitness would do it in 2-2.5 hours and veyr fit people in under an hour! It is very cold on top so warm clothes are needed and try and avoid the blankets and matresses being hired by the Bedouin children up there - they really smell of camels! The walk is quite strenuous however there are camels to take you up the first 7Km until the track reaches the steps of repentence. The sunrise ...  Read the complete review

Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, separates mainland Egypt from Israel and Jordan, and the Mediterranean from the Red Sea. Mount Sinai is a mountain massif in the south central part of the peninsula, where the land tapirs into a triangular point, surrounded on two of its three sides by gulfs of the Red Sea. Mount Sinai is a barren rocky massif, rising from red sandy plains. Well that's what you can get from any atlas or history book anyway. But whilst Mount Sinai is fairly unremarkable in the scheme of mountains, its not the tallest and it looks the same as the others nearby, it has something about it that no other mountain can boast. That claim to fame is that it features as a ...  Read the complete review