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| Egypt - miSr (in arabic) |
| St. Chatarins monastry |
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Saint Catherine's Monastery,
commonly known as Santa Katarina lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at
the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of
Saint Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai Governorate. The monastery
is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Built between
548 and 565, this monastery is one of the oldest working
Christian monasteries in the world together with the Monastery of
Saint Anthony, situated across the Red Sea in the desert south of
Cairo, which also lays claim to that title. In the area around
the monastery, a small town has grown, with hotels and swimming
pools, called Saint Katherine City.
(Click on the
thumbnails, and you will get a larger version)
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are almost there and see lots of camels |
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| Worth
a visit - no pictures allowed, but it's very nice inside |
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| The
road back to Sharm el Sheik |
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