Sinai Grand Safari St. Catherine, Colored Canyon,...

Tour Egypt Travel® representative will pick you up from your hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh early in the morning. On a desert safari, we will drive you for 2 hours through Sinai desert to the legendary Monastery of Saint Catherine (also Santa Katarina). Aboard this marvelous desert safari, enjoy the landscape, and different altitudes of the granite mountains of Sinai desert. We will drive you through the old caravan road which was used by Nabataeans in the ancient times that have amazing views. We will visit the church of St. Catherine, the Icon gallery, the Greek Orthodox charnel house, the “Burning Bush”, Moses well, the Library of the monastery. Then we will have some fun and adventures, to discover the extraordinary colors and shapes of the rocks which were formatted by nature. We will move from the monastery to the north along the normal road till Nuweiba city, then for 40 minutes you should hold yourself because we will drive along the track, sands and mountains until we reach the Colored Canyon. From the mouth of the canyon, we will get down on 250 meter depth, and then walk for an hour and half in the canyon between the rocks with their different colors. You will see amazing paintings which were painted by the erosion of the wind and water. After our adventure we will go to Nuweiba to have lunch at a local restaurant situated on the beach of the gulf of Aqaba. There you can also swim or snorkel for a while. We'll end our trip with a free tour in Dahab city after which we will go back to Sharm-el-Sheikh.