Tour ID: U-26-6

Highlights

St. Catherine’s Monastery from Sharm El Sheikh

• Spend some time at St. Catherine’s Monastery by discovering it’s old treasures
• Explore the 6th-century church located by the side of the burning bush
• Led by a local guide
• Visit the temple of the prophet Elijah with a well and the chapel of the Mother of God.
• Lunch

Tour Program

You will be picked up from your hotel at approximately 06.00/ 07:00am by an A/C van, then head to St. Catherine City on the 220 Kilometers drive of two and half hours.

Inside the monastery you will see the Burning Bush, Moses well (where Moses met his wife) & the Transfiguration Church. Then you will take free time if you would like to climb up one of the surrounding mountains to take a panoramic view for the whole monastery.

Then you will drive back to Dahab City (Dahab is one of the beautiful cities in South Sinai, it is far from Sharm about 100 km) to take your lunch at a sea front restaurant and you will have the chance to do some shopping as Dahab is the biggest shopping area in South Sinai, where you will get the chance to purchase different kinds of souvenirs. Finally you will drive back to Sharm el-Sheikh.

Timing & Duration

• Pick up: Around  06:00 (Depending on your hotel location in Sharm el sheikh)
• Drop Off: Around 16:00 Pm (the second day)
• Duration: 9 hours
• Tour available on: Monday, thursday, Saturday morning.

What to take with you?

• Sunglasses
• Sun hat
• Camera
• Passport or ID card
• Comfortable shoes
• Comfortable clothes
• The breakfast box must be pre-ordered from the hotel and collected before the tour starts;.