St. Catherine monastery Tour from Sharm

* Early morning our Tours representative will pick you up from your hotel to discover the top highlights of Sinai desert with its amazing mountains and nature

* upon arrival to Saint Catherine monastery, your guide will explain it and also you have free time it is a magnificent place where located in heart of Sinai Peninsula at a height of 1570 meters in the place where according to the tradition Moses saw the bush on fire which didn’t burn up. It is in the foothills of Gable Moses or mount Sinai, on whose summit Moses received the tables of the law with the ten commandments inscribed.

* The monastery dates back to the age of the emperor Justinian 6th century. it was the same time of building enclosure wall surrounding the monastery right now but The monastery was named Saint Catherine at the beginning of the 11th century in honor of Saint Catherine, one of the earliest Alexandria Christians martyrs

* than driving to Dahab city to explore the fabulous nature and getting lunch there then getting back to Sharm

St. Catherine monastery

( St. Catherine monastery was built between 548 and 565, the monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world ,The site contains the world’s oldest continually operating library, possessing many unique books such as the Codex Sinaiticus until 1859, of which recently new folios have come to light, including the Syriac Sinaiticus and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2002 for its unique importance in the traditions of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism )