Egypt tour-along the Sinai

Author: Green duckweed

The Sinai Peninsula (Sinai) is located at the junction of Africa and Asia, the South Eastern Mediterranean, the PRD is the Red Sea.

Due to its unique geographical location, has become the "ancient wars marching route". Whether the Pharaoh Egypt soldiers led by the Asian expedition, or ancient Assyrian, Persian and Greece, and later the Arab Muslim army and the Ottoman Empire army's invasion of Egypt from the Sinai Peninsula.

Apart from the Sinai Peninsula is the way of the "March", and Egypt and the Western countries and the Gulf countries, trade and cultural exchanges, as well as Jewish, Islamic and Christian holy places of the heart.

1956, Egypt and Israel since many times over for the Sinai Peninsula, the 1967 Israel captured the Sinai Peninsula until 1982 the "Treaty", Camp David Israel talent will be returned to the land of Egypt.

We are from Luxor to fly to the Sinai Peninsula.

The aircraft landed in Sharm el-sheikh airport, the airport will see the hotel's car was waiting for us. The car also to Sharm el-sheikh received two people, we are also the way of sightseeing.

3 > Dahab's Beach two days of the great waves

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In Dahab, rely on the beach has some good restaurants, but the price is not low, we are a company called ' Friends ' to eat a meal of fresh seafood dinner BBQ two fish, four prawn, some cuttlefish with rice, fries, local bread, salad, etc. with vegetable and four total consumption 220LE.

Underwater digital white is a coral reef, it's shallow water, the depth of only three, four feet tall, blue part is a sham, a depth of up to several hundred meters. Sham Shui Po District and shallow waters, there is no transition, there is an underwater cliff. I'm in Sham Shui Po district around the edge, Nice, colorful underwater tropical fish swim to swim, as seen in the Aquarium. Thought those Aquarium keeps colored tropical fish is the Greek fish, see the Red Sea is in.

The big waves in the afternoon, the water is long over, legs also struck two seats, just get up and been overwhelmed, but to a thorough investigation of the waves.

11 pm car to pick us to Mount Sinai, is a 14-seater Bus.

The Guide let us fill in a form that you want to insert name, nationality, passport number. We fill up to the tour, the Guide at immediately tore, we refill, the ' change of nationality, ' he said. The Guide also asked the other two boys, ' what?, ' ' Oh big Leah. ' ' Fill in Canada. ' A car like this almost everyone changed nationality. Asked why the Guide, the guide said that several States to Sinai to uniformed special protection. Then encountered posts to check passports. guides sayin' that the military does not know English. I very much doubt that must have been all in cahoots, that table is used to cross to the superior. On the road only a minor we took a passport, or just want us to turn to the visa page Akira.

Quiet car arrives at the foot of the mountain, many people, the PW is pooled to it, on the mountain road is already a flashlight flashed over.

Fast two points we began to walk, mountain roads not steep, gravel road, a slide is not good to go. There are a few dozen people team organization is very good, there is a team leader, cheerleading, lights, camera, mammoth.

Dark, at the beginning, many people take a flashlight, though I don't have to borrow before and electro-optic also hand can see clearly.

Slowly people get separated, for a long while I walk alone in the dark, from time to time by the stone mixing. This way is not easy, it can be said fairly hard. Way than I expected to see the top of a hill, this probably thought it could turn a corner and found the front there is a long way to go, so go have a seat and the top of a hill, go I was exhausted, out of breath, mind straight regret, and fear of being a partner blaming, take them to go so difficult to go by road. Before I was full of confidence, and wish so many tourists to go for a walk, let alone not normally I also often hiking, though we have no dreams, Dr. Wang Xu-like feet, than the average person is also a strong point. The days go so hard for two reasons, first, I have serious mountain, altitude 1500m above I will feel short of breath, and Mount Sinai 2285 meters above sea level. The second reason is, that afternoon my mouth up several bubble, didn't care that the herpes virus start me up, then down the Hill when headache, and so on back to the hotel, I had a splitting headache, almost speech.

The mountain road, the front section of the slope, the last paragraph is the stone steps, that is 700 multilevel, slope steeper, camel riding uphill must also be in this next camel.

I walked a dozen-stone steps you have to stop for breath. And the whole process took two and a half hours, but also not too bad.

At the top of the Hill met a companion and a girl with the car of Switzerland, the three of us took a big rock down to rest, cold and windy, wearing a lot or shivered, see someone to hire blankets that can only be rented for a bargain price 20LE, and finally to 20 for two.

Switzerland girl myself with a bed of thin blanket, who was wearing two thin clothes, but she said it was not cold. The three of us together, I still pull the blanket cover in the past the corner of Switzerland girl's body. Just a glance, midazolam is commotion sound wake, a look at the sky has a bit of red light, we hurry up, to climb the big stones, afraid to Miss sunrise. The result is waiting for an hour, the Sun is behind the mountainHis face. See the side of the Jews in front of him with great devotion painted cross, I feel a bit absurd blind along for the ride.

About the big 16 > to the moment of the night

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25 > finally saw the Catharina monastery

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Sinai is not easy to climb, lacking, older to think twice.

Climb out, when not enough time, as long as the Sun came out to the peak before it is too early to the top of the Hill, just where the cold wind blowing. If you do not climb Mount Sinai don't have to go to the Sinai Peninsula, you can go diving in Hurghada, Hurghada with said underwater and very pretty.

I have always wanted to know how long mountain, climb? Internet didn't find it, does anyone know of let me know.

Thank you!

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