Our guide from Nile Dream tours will pick you up from your hotel in Sharm El Sheikh at 9.00 pm Then you will travel in an air-conditioned vehicle for around 4 hours to reach the Moses Mountain. Upon arrival, you will start your hiking tour to the sacred place mentioned several times in the Old Testament where Moses received the biblical tablets of stone inscribed with the 10 commandments by God's finger. A long flight of steps leads to the summit of the mountain (2285 m High) takes about 3 hours there you have the chance to pray, relax and enjoy watching the rising sun disc slowly appear across the mountains in all its splendor. Then you start descending back and after breakfast, you will visit the St. Catherine monastery, it is one of the most fascinating sacred places in the world. The mother of the emperor Constantino I, ordered to build a chapel in the sacred place, where Moses spoke with God. Later, Emperor Justinian I, ordered a monastery to be built in the same place between 527 and 565 AD, it's believed to be built around Moses Burning Bush. The monastery is named after St. Catherine who was tortured and beheaded for her Christian beliefs in 307 A D. During your visit, you will see the chapel of the Greek orthodox church, the icon of worship and the famous mosaic of transfiguration. St. Catherine is a holy region to world three religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, It is a place where early Christianity has flourished and the orthodox monastic tradition still continues in the present day, and where people still live in respect to others, and many events recorded in The Bible took place in the area, also there are hundreds of places of religious importance in the city.
After the tour, you will go back to your hotel
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