Today Sinai is mostly known as the Mecca for divers, Paradise for beach dwellers and a fishers dream. Still it's more, far more:

The Sinai Peninsula is the corridor between Africa and Asia. In Pharaonic times the "Way of Horus" & Land of Turquoise.

Later it became the way of Moses and under the mountain where he received the ten commandments is the monastery of St. Catherine. The monastery got special protection from Prophet Mohammed in year 625 and included in Unesco's World Heritage List in year 2002.

When the Holy Family sought protection in Egypt, they came via the North Coast road - and for North African Muslims on Pilgrimage to Mecca, this is their land road.

The peninsula's unique nature matches it's history with the Red Sea in south and the Mediterranean in north.

In-between 61,000 square kilometers of desert, mountains and smaller oases. In south the mountains reign while a limestone plateau covers the central area. In north the plateau slopes down to Mediterranean palm beaches.

Some few cities, but a large part of the population is wandering Bedouins where the camel still is an essential part of the society.

There is much to recommend in Sinai, but our own hearts belongs to Al Arish on Sinai's Mediterranean coast. The administration centre of northern Sinai, and a holiday resort mostly known by the Egyptians themselves. Beautiful palm-beaches, weekly Beduin markets (the "real stuff", no tourist setups), a Beduin museum - in short a place to recommend for those trying to get away from the mass-tourism.

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