St. Catherine city has a high spiritual significance as a result of its location near Moses Mountain. Enjoy the Beautiful landscape all the way from Sharm El Sheikh and visit the oldest monastery in the world!
St. Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in St. Catherine's City. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world.
The monastery was built by order of Emperor Justinian I, enclosing the Chapel of the Burning Bush ordered to be built by St. Helen, the mother of Constantine I, at the site where Moses is supposed to have seen the burning bush; the living bush on the grounds is purportedly the original. It is also referred to as "St. Helen's Chapel". The site is sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Posted By : Jet60962652973
I have to say that SharmSmaile knocked it out of the park with their private tour from Sharm Al Sheikh to St Catherine monastery. We had pleasure to go with Muhammed and Ahmed. Muhammed was a tour guide while Ahmed was a driver. Muhammed had perfect English language skill and used it to tell us about history, heritage and culture of the place. He was very factual, informative and pleasant to talk to. Ahmed driving was professional, calm and safe. They both helped us navigate not only historic sites but also all police stops on a way. Without professional guide this trip would not be possible.
It was absolutely worth the price and we don't regret spending every penny. Don't think about booking bus tour as its even hard to compare and can be cancelled if operator don't have enough people.
Lunch in Dahab was very tasty and allow us to familiarise with under the hood, local way of life. Muhammed and Ahmed went above and beyond to service out trip even when we had extra request to pop into to local fruit market and buy mango.
All in all excellent service, great destination and well worth the money for quality of service. Thank you
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Posted On : 2024-06-13 08:38:43 
Posted By : fastresults
Day Excursion to St Catherin’s Monastery led by Sharm Smile Tours. The day commenced at 6:00am from our hotel entrance our private car arriving on time. Our travel guide was Mohammed Nabil Abdallah who can only be described as excellent. He is a mind of information and knowledge, with the ability to make you interested and enthusiastic to learn more about the Bedouin way of life during the journey to the monastery. On arrival at St Catherin’s Monastery with a heritage dating back to the fourth century AD and what is claimed to be a descendant of the biblical burning UNESCO World Heritage site. Still a working Monastery it was obvious that he was well known by Monks and Bedouin employees and able to ensure that we obtained the most from our visit. His knowledge and willingness to make sure we missed nothing of interest during our visit being obviously of prime importance to him. The visit finished with us knowing much more about this historical and religious site and the Bedouin life style.
It was now time for the second part of our excursion with a stop at Dahab for Lunch overlooking the coast outline of Saudi Arabia. This again was a very memorable visit with an excellent meal included in the cost of the day. Throughout the day our driver drove making us feel at ease and contributed to us enjoying the day.
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Posted On : 2024-05-23 15:10:57
Posted By : E5517KPbobe
Fantastic day! Engy, our guide, was a delight & very knowledgeable on the history of Egypt & St Catherine Monastery. The lunch at Dahab sitting alongside the Red Sea was delicious. We would recommend this tour company to all lovers of history & a desire to learn about the life in contemporary Egypt.
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Posted On : 2024-03-24 05:07:14
Posted By : Safari10731028164
What an amazing spiritual experience we had on a tiring but extremely eventful tour of St Catherine Monastery. Our tour guide was Tariq , a thorough multi lingual professional with very high intellect and complete grasp of his job. I stand much wiser on the history of St Catherine Monastery after this visit and all credit goes to Tariq our tour guide who did an exceptional job despite the fact that he was fasting being the 1st day of Muslim’s month of Ramadan. The trip was very well planned and timed to the minutest detail. I would recommend this tour through this company to everyone who wants the things to go smooth. Regards Sohail & Sarwat
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Posted On : 2024-03-13 13:27:18
Posted By : 606vivianac
Today January 29, 2024 my husband and I went on an excursion to St. Catherine's Monastery from Sharm el Sheik with Ahmed who kindly accompanied us. The journey of about 3 hours deserves to be lived as a new experience: spectacular views and colors that change suddenly. The monastery deserves to be visited, obviously in the accessible parts. The museum features a collection of wonderful ancient icons and books. Ahmed accompanied us inside, supporting us during the visit. Experience to try. I recommend contacting Ahmed with WhatsApp on his cell phone. n.+20 1018440161. Thanks Ahmed.
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Posted On : 2024-01-29 14:42:44
Posted By : patriciaaF3151LM
Wonderful experience, and would definitely do it all again! Looked after really well by our fabulous guide and driver. Very informative. Excellent lunch in a great location provided the perfect end to a perfect day. Have recommended this tour to all our friends.
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Posted On : 2023-12-09 03:55:27
Posted By : 265rendrat
We are Indonesian couple taking private day tour in English to St Catherine. It was a very good experience.
1. the car was in good condition & quite new.
2. the driver really can drive comfortably and savely. Picked us on time.
3. Our guide, Mohammed, was very knowledgeable and gave us a lot of exicting and quality information. Turned out that he graduated from history/archaeology.
4. Lunch at Dahab was very good, our table was at the seaside, bread was superb. The food was included, but needed to pay for the drinks.
5. Guided tour was absolutely necessary, as there were frequent checkpoints, with many sorts of people asking question, taking notes, and probably asking for tips or whatever..
Our guide handled all the registration and administrations, while we sat nicely in the car
overall, it was an excellent experience, and i can recommend Mohammed and Sharm Smile Tour.
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Posted On : 2023-11-06 11:25:50
Posted By : V6504SNjenniferm
Mohammed was great! He picked us up right on time. The trip from Dahab to St. Catherine’s/Mt. Sinai was smooth. The views from the top of the mountain were well worth the overnight hike. And Mohammed gave a great tour of the monastery and surrounding grounds at the end of the hike back down. He also was so sweet to get us some breakfast to refuel and some small gifts because we were celebrating our wedding anniversary.
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Posted On : 2023-10-29 13:55:28
Posted By : Travel529659
Very well organized tour. The monastery site is magical. Our guide gave us extensive information and keys to even better enjoy our visit. Lunch break in Dahab was fabulous: waterfront restaurant with delicious food. We highly recommend
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Posted On : 2023-10-29 08:52:04
Posted By : KatiusciaViaggi
Excellent experience, excellent professionalism, I highly recommend ... we did several excursions. Kind professional guide
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Posted On : 2023-10-22 08:20:47
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