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| Egypt - miSr (in arabic) |
| Mt. Sinai (Mt. Moses) |
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Mount Sinai, also known as
Mount Horeb, is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt that
is the traditional and most accepted identification of the
Biblical Mount Sinai. However, several archeologists believe the
true location of Mount Sinai is Jabal al-Lawz in Saudi Arabia.
The latter is mentioned many times in the Book of Exodus in the
Torah, the Bible, and the Quran. According to Jewish, Christian
and Islamic tradition, the biblical Mount Sinai was the place
where Moses received the Ten Commandments. Mount Sinai is a 2285
metre high mountain near Saint Catherine in the Sinai region. It
is next to Mount St. Catherine (2629 m, the highest peak in
Egypt).
The trip up was quite hard,
specially the last 750 stonesteps, but we managed. After
experiencing the sunrise we went down again, and saw the
landscape we had walked up during the night in lovely moonlight,
and were quite impressed. Here are the pictures I took, and hope
you get an impression about the steep steps at the top, and the
lovely landscape that surrounds the area. Well worth a trip.
(Click on the
thumbnails, and you will get a larger version)
| The
surrounding mountains are hit by the first sunrays |
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| We
start to go down and now we could see how steep it
actually was |
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| Back
to the path and we could consentrate to look at the
surroundings |
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