Saint Catherine Hotels - Reviews and Rates

This morning was the first long drive of the trip - day 9 and we'd been go, go, go since we had arrived in Egypt. We were all looking forward to plugging in the ipod and zoning out for a few hours. We drove through a tunnel under the Suez Canal and had a few unsatisfactory rest stop snacks before arriving at Saint Catherine in the middle of the ...

Couldnt sleep a wink. I can't remember being this excited for such a long time. Worried , anxious that you can't sleep , yes, but excited not since I was a kid.

Sharp on the the dot, I am dressed and ready to go. Ah, the aroma of the hot coffee is so good on such a cold early morning. We are set and start walking through the monastery to...

Sleep, wake up look out the window....still desert, play Nintendo DS, sleep, wake up still desert play Nintendo DS, sleep...you sort of get the pattern for the next 8-9 hours of driving to St. Katherine's. We we FINALLY got there and all stumbled out of the bus and had a nice big stretch, dumped our bags, had some lunch and then all caught up in...

I am soooo glad today is over! We got into St Catherine's and went straight to the Monastery. This was apparently the place where Moses came across the burning bush. Looking at it, I'm not convinced! It didn't look anything like it did in the movie. We went back to our hostel, got all our stuff together and headed back to the Monastery. Behind i...

Les mots dun couple de flamands nous reveillent. Quelle surprise lorsque nous ouvrons les yeux, le petit endroit ou nous nous sommes couches pratiquement seuls la veille est rempli de randonneurs... nous sommes les betes curieuses du lieu emmaillotes dans notre papier alu dore ! La lueur du jour laisse bientot poindre le soleil. A notre gauche u...

Apres avoir somnole dans le minibus nous arrivons au pied dun sentier ou nous attend notre guide. Nous commencons aussitot la marche dans le noir total avec la voute etoilee comme veilleuse. Les premiers pas sont un peu hesitants, ils se posent dans la lumiere oscillante de la lampe torche. Le rythme sintalle doucement dans les pas de notre guid...

Yesterday, Thursday, we sadly left Dahab and travelled to St. Katherine's monastery. This is really in the middle of nowhere...but is the location of Mt. Sinai. Those who know their bible history know that this is the location that Moses received the 10 Commandments. There is a monastery at the base to commemorate St. Katherine. She was the nobl...