Excursion to St.Catherine & Dahab from Sharm

About this tour

The Plan

We will pick you up from your hotel in Sharm at 06:00 am and drive for approximately 2 and a half hours in a comfortable air-conditioned coach to the foot of Mt.Sinai.

Visit St. Catherine Monastery

On arrival you will be given a guided tour around the working monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the oldest working Christian monastery in the world.

The monastery was built in the 4th Century enclosing the Chapel of the Burning Bush, ordered to be built at the site where Moses saw the burning bush. The living bush on the grounds is purportedly the original!. The site is sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

A Fatimid mosque was built within the walls of the monastery but has never been used since it is not correctly oriented towards Mecca.

During the seventh century, the isolated Christian anchorites of the Sinai were eliminated: only the fortified monastery remained. The monastery is still surrounded by the massive fortifications that have preserved it. Until the twentieth century, access was through a door high in the outer walls. From the time of the First Crusade, the presence of Crusaders in the Sinai until 1270 spurred the interest of European Christians and increased the number of intrepid pilgrims who visited the monastery.

Although the history of the Monastery is very interesting, a lot of our customers enjoyed this excursion for the views and sights alone.

Lunch and Shopping in Dahab

Following a guided tour of St. Catherines monastery you will relax and have a delicious lunch before driving to Dahab, the the biggest shopping area in South Sinai.

Here you will get the chance to browse for local Egyptian handicrafts, carpets, jewellers, perfumes, papyrus and other souvenirs.

Drive back to Sharm approx. 1.20 hours.