sinai Tag Posts Index

Monastery Of Saint Catherine in Sinai Mountain - Christian Monastery, Which Is Respected Even By Muslims

I have already written about the Moses Mount we climbed up. In such beauty, severe and powerful, we imperceptibly descended to the temple itself. The first person

Ancient Ruins? Nah abandoned New Builds - Monomad Challenge

Hail to the Hive! You would be forgiven for mistaking these as ancient ruins of a temple from a long lost civilization. Sat at the foot of the mountains in the dry

A Farewell Waterfront Stroll in Dahab - Sad to Go

Hail to the Hive! Our diving trip to Dahab had come to an end and I was getting that melancholy you feel when you know you’re about to leave a place you really like

A Coffee Delight in Dahab

Hail to the Hive! After a few days back on the resort ‘Stalag Happy Life Village’ we decided to escape for another venture into what is now the seaside desert town

Storefronts on the Shorefront - Monomad Challenge

Hail to the Hive! For my #monomad offerings today I bring you the shabby chic, desert dwelling, sea front, eclectic mish mash of coastal shop fronts and cafes. The

Sinai Sundowners- Beer Caturday

Hail to the Hive! After an afternoon of aimless wandering around Dahab, drinking coffee, eating cheesecake and window shopping, we felt the need for some ice cold

A Curious Curio & Why Not - Monomad Challenge

Hail to the Hive! While have a wander about in Dahab, I happened upon this little curio. A more eclectic, random, quirky, jumble of of a store front I don’t think

Sinai Strolling - Coastal Bimble

Hail to the Hive! After a day of diving @diveratt and myself decided to go and have a look see at what was outside the hotel and down the beachfront. We had seen

Dahab, Desert & Diving

Hail to the Hive! After 4 amazing days in Cairo we made the joirney to the Sinai and our next destination hotel. Happy Life Village. I’ve worked on a few resorts

Egyptian Western? - Monomad Challenge

Hail to the Hive! I took a walk down to the beach front where we were staying just outside Dahab and was immediately confronted with something that I can only describe

Coffee on the Sinai Coast

Hail to the Hive! Dahab has changed so much since the last time I was here it is completely unrecognizable. It honestly bares no resemblance to the little dirt road

From Cairo to the Sinai

Hail to the Hive! After 4 days of stunning views, ancient ruins and crazy streets it was time to finally leave our little oasis in Giza and make tracks for the Sinai.

Looking Back, Planning Forward

Hail to the Hive! Time is quickly passing by and our time in Jamaica grows short. This means that after a brief exposure to the UK winter ( noooo brrrrr noooo) we

Reviewing the Exodus

Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah – Part 52 Part 1 of the Jews through the Red Sea (Aivazovsky) This series of articles began as an investigation into

Kadesh

Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah – Part 41 Part 1 In the catalogue of the Stations of the Exodus given in Numbers 33, the Thirty-Third Station is called

From Hazeroth to Kadesh

Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah – Part 40 Part 1 Serabit el-Khadim towards ‘Ain el-Hudhera In the preceding article in this series, I hypothesized that

Hazeroth

Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah – Part 39 Part 1 The Fourteenth Station of the Exodus, Hazeroth, is most frequently identified with a spring or well

Kibroth Hattaavah Part 2

Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah – Part 38 Part 1 In the preceding article in this series, we postulated that the Twelfth Station of the Exodus—whether

View from Castle Zaman in the Sinai peninsula in Egypt. This is one of my absolute ...

... favourite places to drink and eat superb slow cooked feasts. You should google them and see what they offer so next time you’re in Egypt, make sure to add “blown

Those mountains in the distance were the beginning of our journey into the desert. ...

... Mars never felt so close.