CAIRO
ARRIVAL AT THE CAIRO AIRPORT, HISPANIC SPEAKING ASSISTANCE AT THE AIRPORT BY OUR REPRESENTATIVE BEFORE THE PASSPORT CONTROL. HOTEL MOVING AND LODGING.
CAIRO
BREAKFAST AT THE HOTEL. DEPARTURE TO MAKE THE INCLUDED VISIT TO THE THREE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA, KEOPS KEFREN, MIKERINOS AND THE ETERNAL SPHINX, THE VALLEY TEMPLE AND THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM OF PHARAONIC ART. RETURN TO THE HOTEL AND ACCOMMODATION.
CAIRO / THE FOUNTAINS OF MOISES / SANTA CATALINA
BREAKFAST, DEPARTURE TO THE SINAI PENINSULA VIA THE AHMED HAMDY TUNNEL UNDER THE SUEZ CANAL GOING FROM AFRICA TO ASIA. VISIT TO AYUN MUSA OR THE FOUNTAINS OF MOISÉS (MARA), THEN DEPARTURE TO THE CITY OF SANTA CATALINA. ARRIVAL AT THE HOTEL, DINNER AND ACCOMMODATION.
SANTA CATALINA / MOISES MOUNT
EARLY MORNING, DEPARTURE TO MOUNT MOSES OR MOUNT SINAI (MOUNT HOREB) 2285M HIGH, WHERE THE PROPHET MOSES RECEIVED THE TABLES OF LAW FROM GOD WHILE THE HEBREW PEOPLE CAMPED AT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN, FROM THE TOP OF MOUNT AMANODEMOS THE MOUNT OF SANTA CATALINA THE HIGHEST SUMMIT OF THE PENINSULA 2637M. GOING DOWN FROM THE MOUNT WE WILL VISIT THE MONASTERY OF SANTA CATALINA SITUATED AT A HEIGHT 1570M WITH ITS IMPRESSIVE WALLS BUILT BETWEEN THE YEARS 527 AND 565 BY ORDER OF THE JUSTINIAN EMPEROR IN THE BIBLICAL PLACE OF LA ZARZA EN LLAMAS. THE MONASTERY OWES ITS NAME TO SANTA CATALINA, MARTYR ALEJANDRINA DEAD IN THE YEAR 395 WHOSE BODY TRANSPORTED BY ANGELS WOULD BE DISCOVERED 5 CENTURIES LATER ON THE TOP OF THE MOUNT THAT BEARS HER NAME, THE MONASTERY IS THE WORLD’S SMALLEST DIOCESE AND THE OLDEST ACTIVE MONASTERY ITS LIBRARY POSSESSES THE WORLD’S OLDEST MANUSCRIPTS AFTER THE VATICAN. RETURN TO THE HOTEL, BREAKFAST AND DEPARTURE AT THE SCHEDULED TIME TO THE BORDER POINT FROM WHERE WE WILL LEAVE EGYPT.
