Day 1: Beginning in Cairo or Sharm El Sheikh. Transfer to the beginning of Wadi ("valley") Ba'ba'a, near Abu Zenima in South Sinai. Dinner around the campfire, meet your camel and sleep out (either in tents or under the stars).
Day 2: Begin your camel trek by riding through the rocky terrain at the beginning of Wadi Ba'ba'a. Later there are palms and smooth sand at the Ain Abu Sor oasis where you sleep. See caves with manganese mines.
Day 3: To Wadi Eloga where we see Nabateean rock inscriptions. Then on to Wadi Sheikh Hashhash to sleep. There is a white tomb structure for the sheikh. People come here to make prayers and offerings and there is a big celebration each year on the sheikh's birthday, September 15.
Day 4: Pass by Gebel ("mountain") 'Adeidiya. Visit a Bedouin village and see the turquoise mines. Sleep in Wadi Zaloga.
Day 5: Go to Wadi Umm Agraf and proceed to climb by camel to the top of Serabit Mountain where the Hathor Temple is. Sleep on the top of the mountain.
Day 6: Visit the Hathor Temple. This temple was built by the Ancient Egyptians during the Pharonic times. It was begun during the Middle Kingdom and then expanded on during the New Kingdom by Queen Hatshepsut and Tutmosis III (2nd C. BC). After seeing the temple you descend the mountain and go through the sand dunes of Wadi Suig. Sleep at Gebel Himaiyir.
Day 7: Gebel Himaiyir. Visit a Bedouin family that is still living in the old way, in a tent in the desert. Sleep near the Forest of Pillars.
Day 8: See the Forest of Pillars, a volcanic formation in the desert! Unexplained by geologists. Through Wadi Owdiyat El Kabir and then Wadi Owdiyat Es Saghir to sleep.
Day 9: To Wadi Gharba and to Moyat "Ein Qatar El Gharba. Colored sandstone mountains, water and palms.
Day 10: To the tomb of Habose Sheikh El Akhdar, then to Wadi El Akdar. Sleep at Ein ("spring") El Akhdar oasis.
Day 11: Enjoy the far-reaching view at Farsh Khalsa and finish your camel trek journey at Wadi Esh Sheikh. From there a car will take youo to Saint Catherine's. Continue with a climb up Moses Mountain (Mount Sinai) or return to Cairo or Sharm El Sheikh.
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