tour program:
Departure from your hotel for Climbing Mount Moses is always between 19:30 / 21:00 (depending on the location of your hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh) an english-speaking guide will pick you up from your hotel by bus for the excursion to Mount Moses. Drive almost 130 km to the foot of the mountain. After almost 2/3 hours you arrive at a police checking point, where they check your documents (You must have your passport with you and another photo copy of your passport to give it to police).
After passing the police checking point, the climbing the mountain begins.
You will be accompanied by a Bedouin guide, he will climb the mountain with you.
Mount Moses is 2,285 meters above sea level of the sea, and you can climb it from the monastery in two hours.
There are two possible routes to the top:
The first is 3,750 steps carved into the rocks by monks.
The second was laid in the 19th century, and you can even climb it on camels ( only a part of the road can be passed on a camel ); it is considered easier.
(To make the excursion easier for people, local Bedouins offer to rent a camel). (cost from $15).
The peculiarity of this excursion, Climbing Mount Moses, is that it begins under the cover of night to meet the sunrise on the the yo of the mountains.
In the morning, after meeting the sunrise at the top of the mountain, everyone goes down to the cafe to have breakfast (we recommend you to take breakfast box from your hotel with you).
After breakfast, we will visit the monastery of St. Catherine. The name of the monastery is associated with the young Christian Catherine, who preached to the pagan Roman emperor Maximian and was executed for ridiculing idolatry.
According to legend, after her martyrdom, the angels carried the body of the saint to the highest point of Sinai. And only centuries later, her relics were discovered by monks and transferred to the monastery.
In the monastery: you will see ancient icons, you will be able to see the relics of St., a view of the Burning Bush growing here on the territory, the Chapel of the Burning Bush, the Well of Moses and others!
