Mount Sinai (Gebel Musa)
The mountain of Moses, climbed by night for sunrise from its 2,285-metre summit over the granite peaks of southern Sinai.
Saint Catherine
Saint Catherine's Monastery
The sixth-century fortress-monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai — the Burning Bush, Byzantine mosaics and one of the world's great libraries.
Wadi Feiran Oasis
The largest oasis of Sinai, beneath Mount Serbal — an early Christian bishopric with a convent of Greek Orthodox nuns.
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