Travel into Bedouin Life
Bedouin Traditions and Hiking in the Sinai High Mountains
(6 days/ 5 nights)
Day 1
Optional: transfer from Cairo, Nuweiba or Dahab (cost excluded)
Arrive in Bedouin Camp – Drink tea, relax, study map, meet the bedouin guide.
Around 5 pm transfer to the ecolodge in a jeep.
Arrive in the ecolodge, settle into rooms or tents.
Around 8 pm dinner (soup, salad, meat and rice, fruit).
Watch or take part in making fateer, the bedouin bread.
Spend night in the ecolodge.
Day 2
Around 8 or 9 am breakfast in the ecolodge.
Morning hike to Wadi El Frush (around 3-4 hours easy hike with tea break).
Around 1 or 2 pm back at the ecolodge: lunch (bread, cheese, tuna, salad, egg).
Around 3 or 4 pm walk to the bedouin settlement 10 minutes from the ecolodge.
Cultural Activity: Camels in the life of the bedouin (including tea).
Around 7 or 8 pm back to the ecolodge, dinner (soup, salad, meat and noodles, fruit).
Day 3
Around 8 am breakfast in the ecolodge.
Get ready for hike (pack bag that will be loaded on camels and day pack).
Around 9 am start hike: short ascent, then walk through Wadi Arbain, walk briefly through town of St. Katharine ((last) possibility to buy extra snacks for the following days), hike up Abu Gifa Pass lunch break on the way: (bread, salad, fruit, cheese).
Arrive in Odas garden around 3 or 4 pm.
Enjoy the garden, choose place to sleep, drink tea.
Around 8 pm dinner in the garden. Sit around the fire.
Spend night in the garden (mattress and blankets are provided).
Oda’s garden: Oda’s garden
Oda's garden
Day 4
Around 8 am breakfast in the garden.
Cultural Activity: The Bedouin Garden (history, plants, …).
Lunch in the garden.
Afternoon hike: Climb Gabal Ahmar or circuit through the surrouding wadis (3-5 hours including tea on the fire on the way).
Back for dinner in the garden. Sit around the fire.
Spend night in the garden (mattress and blankets are provided).
Day 5
Around 8 am breakfast in the garden.
Get ready for hike (your bag will be transported by car to the city of St. Katharine, then loaded on camels).
Around 9 am start ascent of Abbas Pasha (2-3 hours from Odas garden).
Enjoy views of the whole High Mountain Region.
Descent, lunch break.
Walk through Wadi Talah and Wadi Itlah to Dr. Ahmeds garden.
Around 4 or 5 pm arrive in Dr. Ahmeds garden.
Enjoy the garden, choose place to sleep, drink tea.
Spend the night in the garden.
Day 6
Around 8 am breakfast in the garden.
Cultural Activity: Medicinal Herbs in the High Mountains of Sinai (including herbal tea).
Lunch in the garden.
Back to St. Katharine.
Optional transfer to Dahab/Nuweiba or Cairo (cost excluded).
This trip can also be offered as a 4-day trip.
We will climb down to the village after lunch in the garden on the 4th day.
Dates:
Please ask for dates and prices at handicraft@sheikhsina.com
This trip is carried out by Sheikh Sina – (www.sheikhsina.com)
The terms of business of Sheikh Sina apply.
