Up to the top of Mt Sinai

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Geo: 29.4045, 34.9758

We had a 2am wake up call this morning, as we are going up Mt Sinai, which sounds like hard work. We began our walk at 3am, 5 minutes later I take the camel option- I wouldn't want the camels to get lazy and unfit!! The sky was beautiful and full of stars. The ride was really smooth and enjoyable in the dark. Passed lots of people walking up. It was getting cooler as I got higher up. On the way up I passed a small group with a lady lying on the ground- she didn't look too good. Wayne was trying to help, but couldn't do anything and kept walking. The ride was much better than walking in the dark and much more fun. The end of the ride was at the camel station, from there I had 750 steps to go and it was freezing now. They were steep and a bugger. I got to the top with 2 mins to spare before the sun rose. It looked pretty good I suppose. We all had a hot chocolate at the drink hut. Then made our way down. I walked as I thought that it would be scary to go down on the camel.
After breakfast we drove to Nuwieba to catch the hydrofoil to Aqaba, Jordan. We said goodbye to Tarek, who had been a great guide. The boat ride was long and slow, especially since we sat on the boat for an hour after it docked in Aqaba. It was good to leave Egypt. This city was clean, civil and westernized. Across the sea- a short distance was Israel. Went out for dinner to a pub, was great to have western food again.

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Photos

01 First glimpse
Sunrise

02 Sunrise
Looking down, I realise how far up I´ve come

03 Prime position
Most of the crowd beat me to the top and got a better view than me

04 Little grey tent
Some keen person actually camped here

05 Gorgeous
Sun behind the clouds- pretty good photo!

06 Mountains
Some of the mountains as I look around

07 Looking up
This is the path we took up and down

08 On the way down
Me on the way down the mountain

09 Path
This is the path down and on the right hand side is the camel station

10 Cute camel
Camel´s are so cute!

11 Another camel
A camel standing up

12 The way down
Walking down was easy

13 Camels and rocks
Camels among the rocks, looking for customers to take to the bottom

14 More camels
All the camels have very colourful seats

15 Refreshed
Our group has showered and eaten after climbing the mountain, bring on Jordan!

16 In Jordan
This is the Jordanian flag and across the sea is Israel

17 View of Israel
This is the view of Israel´s mountains from our hotel room

18 Sunset
The sun setting behind the mountains and the hotel pool

19 Convenience
Home delivery- this would be great in Australia for recovery from going out!

Comments

[sage]

that is pretty sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!