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Hello! After lots of requests and many weeks my latest travel blog is now up! I’ve decided to jump around and go ahead and publish the Middle East ones prior to the Christmas break one (the photos are done but not the writing, I’m working on it, things have been busy!).

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Lisa Damico
2007-04-21 22:25:29

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Meals prices were not up for negotiation though, but negotiation is hardly necessary when you get a delicious three-course meal for two euros.

The following day we opted to participate in the daytime hike to the top of Mount Sinai for sunset, where Moses received the Ten Commandments, instead of the midnight climb up to the summit for sunrise. I think Moses deserves a lot more credit for hiking up to the top of the mountain than the Bible gives him, members of our group really struggled and we even had a guide, a cleared path and are probably a few years younger than Moses was. We choose the camel path over the stairs on the way up and silly us thought the peak was marked by a little house at the top of the first mountain we saw . . . oh no, it wasn't until three hours later (two hours after passing the little house on the first mountain) that we finally arrived at the top, our group split in two. Our guide was not the most charming either; the Egyptian government apparently hires locals to guide tourists to the top so that the poor in the community can benefit from the tourism (a nice thing to do); therefore all the guides take a turn and people skills have nothing to do with their selection. Our guide not only did not speak a word of English, but he didn't really want to have anything to do with us and was certainly a firm believer in the "who falls behind stays behind" rule. I was in the first group to arrive at the top, probably due to the years of hikes through the woods while hunting with Dad.

Along the hike up the mountain there are several rest stops selling coffee, snacks, etc and just before the summit of Mt. Sinai at the final rest stop, one finds little shacks whose owners rent out camping mattresses and blankets for those daring enough to make the climb at night, but not wise enough to bring warm clothes. We camped out at this last rest stop to catch our breaths (one starts to feel the effects of the altitude at 7,498 ft) while we ...