Day 4. Tue 16th September Mount Sinai. Dahab.

"Descending Mt Sinai 2"

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Travel story: Day 4. Tue 16th September Mount Sinai. Dahab.

The earliest rise of the trip, we are awakened at 2:00am to walk up Mt. Sinai. Bleary eyed we grab a quick coffee and a packed breakfast and by 2:30 are on the road to St Catherine's Monastery which lies at the foot of Mt. Sinai.

There are two routes up Mt. Sinai, or Mount Moses to give it its local name, the camel path and the "steps of pennance", allegedly laid by monks to atone for some sin (a pretty horrendous sin, judging by the number of steps). The camel path is longer... More