🏔️ Mountain📸 Tourist Attraction

Mount Sinai

South Sinai Governorate, Egypt

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Overview

Mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It stands in the Sinai high country, where nights are cold in every season.

Why visit: Mount Sinai and the Sinai massif — bare granite peaks with a pre-dawn pilgrim climb that has been walked for fifteen hundred years.

Things to do

›Start the Mount Sinai climb around midnight to be up for sunrise
›Take a proper jacket — the summit is bitterly cold before dawn
›Choose between the camel path and the 3,750 Steps of Repentance
›A Bedouin guide is required on most Sinai routes

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Travel Information

Best time

October – April; climb overnight to reach the summit for sunrise

Weather

High desert — warm days but genuinely cold nights year-round, dropping below freezing in winter with occasional snow on the summits; the pre-dawn summit temperature surprises most visitors.

Entry fee

Guide fees ~₹800 – 2,000; camel hire extra

Hours

Overnight climbs are standard; daytime ascents in winter

Est. budget

₹1,500 – ₹5,000

Duration

Overnight to full day

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