Mount Sinai Sunrise Experience & St Catherine Monastery

Must do if your in Sharm and are a follower of any of the three abrahamic faiths, view from the top was truly special. God bless ✝️

Pickup was efficient and Sami and the driver were great and got us to the starting point with bathroom and snack stop about halfway there and home again safely the next day. Then we were handed over to a Beduoin guide to lead us up the mountain. He was very nice and spoke good English and kept us together part of the way up. Then two European tourists in the group were slowing down and comandeered him as their personal guide, holding his arms the rest of the way up and all the way down next day. I suppose that's inevitable as everyone has their own pace. However, i'm sure i'm not the only one in the group who felt that he became their personal guide and I suppose that he has to go as slow as the slowest and most struggling people in the group. I reached the top solo and felt a little alone, but not too much as there were possibly a couple of hundred people there! 😄 the hike was strenuous and well worth it and the sunrise was most beautiful! Try to get a little fit before you go and it will be more fun. Wearing good shoes will help too. I advise Tourex with Trip Advisor for this tour

Amazing experience. Driver and guide were very helpful. The walk up the mountain was pretty strenuous and the Bedouin guide wouldn't let anyone stop to drink water. Seemed like they wanted people to hire camels. Once at the top the sunrise was spectacular. Something everyone should do, but probably only once.

Good organization. Beautiful sunrise. I liked that our guides were really thinking about everybody, you could take snacks and coffee/tea almost every 2 km. Also, if you are tired, you could take a camel to the highest part of the mountain. The hardest thing for me was not sleeping for the whole night. Sunrise is perfect, worth it!

Khaled and Ahmed are nice guides that try to give you the best experience. The adventure is something never to forget. The views are breathtaking and it felt like an expidition. Truly an experience never to forget. However, the bedouins should more attentive when bad weather conditions arise! Egypt is experiencing unusual weather changes now and they should have been more adapting to the situation. Overall good experience with nice views

Very nice guide, group and experience. Thank you, mont Sinaï was beautiful

The night climb to see the sunrise from Mount Sinai was spectacular, organized in detail, with advice that was very useful both on clothing and snacks to bring. The visit then attached to the return to the monastery of Santa Caterina very pretty! Indescribable colors! Experience that we recommend to everyone

Truly extraordinary trip, with excellent organization. I highly recommend doing this trip if you are staying in the Sharm region. The views are just insane but it is physically challenging. Especially the cold at the top. Please do not underestimate how cold it is at the top. I was wearing 9 layers and was still freezing. Special thanks to our Bedouin guides Mahmood and Hosni for getting us up and down safely, with enough stops along the way to make sure the entire group was following. Also big thanks to Ahmed, other Ahmed and our driver Mohammed for the accompaniment throughout the day. Truly amazing and spiritual experience. Good level of physical fitness really is needed though. The views are insane.

The experience itself is extraordinary, what I won’t leave out is how crowded everything is and the constant harassment of children asking you to buy them, food and money. Let the guide propose to tip the Bedouin guide and still less pay two dollars to the museum that was supposed to include the visit. The information offered by the guide can be searched anywhere. The driver was more than enough.

The site is majestic and steeped in spirituality; you must deserve the fantastic view and sunrise because the night climb is difficult and requires good physical condition and especially good equipment, negative temperatures at the summit and strong winds. A unique experience, unfortunately wasted by a deplorable organization: many hours wasted passing from hotel to hotel then during stops to and from gas stations to encourage tourists to consume or just for breaks of guides and drivers, nearly 2 hours waiting to sleep in a freezing cold at the top for sunrise (under shelter certainly but very uncomfortable), an aggressive guide and not able to communicate properly in English, a state of fatigue that unfortunately does not allow to appreciate the visit of the monastery following the ascent. In the end an excursion of 18H (!) from which we emerge exhausted (not recommended to young children) and well frustrated, despite a breathtaking natural site.