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June 4th 2011
Published: June 3rd 2011
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yesterday me and dad climbed mt sianai to the monestry which is very religious to christians, muslims and jews but to climb it you could take 3000 steps up made by a single
monk that heard god tell him to do it or you could take a camel path that was more modern but alot longer because it zig zagged up the mountain to the top. we went in the
middle of the night to a tour bus with 12 other people that took 2 hours to get to the mountain and when we got there a guide took us up the camel path and it was really tiring even in the cold of
the night so we put on jumpers and cept going. at the top the air was even more cold so i used my bedouin scalf/hat thing as a blanket and we watched the sun rise which was
beautiful and it only took 1 or 2 minutes for the sun to be fully out (the people up there were very happy and clappy). on the way down we all wanted to go of without the guide to the bottem but
he insisted that we must wait and go as the group of 12 that we started off as and told us to wait at a bedouin coffie shop down 750 steps (the camel didn't go all the way up the mountain only most
of it and then you take the last 750 steps up)so we went down and waited 10 minutes but the guide was still drinking his coffie at the top whilst everyone was waiting so we decided to abandon him
and carry on (we were supposed to have a guide all the time but it was his own fault for taking his time whilst the whole group was waiting). when we got to the bottem we met a nice taxi driver who
was taking his friend home and gave us a lift to the fox camp for free where we stayed the night in a small double room.


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