Monastery & Mt Sinai

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1 of early Christianities only surviving churches named after the “legendary” martyr, St Kat! Kat was tortured on a spiked wheel for her Christianity & beheaded. But angels took her body up to the highest peak in Egypt!
Bit of trivia for ya.
Me n Pete did a day trip out to the monastery. We got there in the morn after a 2 hr drive through the barren, rocky Sinai dessert. We checked out the Byzantine church, Moses’s well (which if you drink from provides u with marital bliss!) & the burning bush .
Then we began the pilgrimage up the 2285m of Mt Sinai to have a word with the big fella up stairs!
@ the top there is a tiny church which is meant to be the sight that god came down to Moses with the 10 commandments! ( I think Moses had heat stroke after the huge climb in the sweltering heat & was hallucinating!) Stayed up top for the start of the sunset and then had to run down so as not to miss the ride back.

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Photos

Tiny church
3000m up & i met a few of the monks!

Put the volleys up!
Finally up the top, so now the wait for sunset.

Comments

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[Julie Gordon]

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Like the pics,, Im doing a charity trek to Sinai in Nov 07 and the first morning we get up at 2 am to see the sun rise at the top of Mt Sinai. Thanks for the insight. (Scotland)