Sinai Peninsula

One of perfect resort places in Egypt is Sinai coast Red sea which lays rather near to Cairo and Alexandria and is bound to them an excellent network of highways. The path to Southern Sinai lays through the underground tunnel near Suez canal which has been open in April, 1980. On Sinai many the remarkable beaches which have been had along shores of gulf of Suez and gulf of Akaba. Tourist centres on Sinai are Charm-ale-sheikh, Dahab, Nuejba and Taba.

Besides the arranged well beaches, the pure sea and an all-the-year-round beach season, tourists involve on Sinai the places bound to religious relics. In mounts at altitude 1570  the m above sea level is the Greek monastery St. Kateriny which main treasuries are the library and storage of icons. One of places of interest of a monastery St. Kateriny is the mount of Moseses (2285  - a sacred place for judaic, Christian and Islamic religions. On a knap there is a chapel and a small mosque. Usually religious pilgrims and simple tourists make a night climbing on a mount to meet at an apex sunrise.