Introduction
Sights and Activities
St. Catherine's Monastery
St. Catherine's Monastery is an Orthodox monastery on the Sinai peninsula at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt. One of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world, St. Catherine's incorporates the burning bush seen by Moses and contains many valuable icons. Above the monastery is Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God. Because God spoke to Moses in these places, this area is sacred to three world religions: Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
Sleep
| Property | Address | Type | Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniela Village St.Katherine | St.Katherine Road St.Katherine - Sinai | Hotel | 85 |
Keep Connected
Phone
See also International Telephone Calls
Post
Egypt Post is the national postal service in Egypt. Services are generally reliable, affordable though pretty slow, even if you send post domestically. International letters and postcards take days, if not weeks if send to the US or Australia. They do have express mail services though, but these are relatively expensive. Opening hours of post officies are mostly from 8:30am to 2:00pm or 3:00pm daily except Friday, when all of them are closed. The central ones might keep longer hours, generally until 8:00pm. You can buy stamps here, or at certain newspaper kiosks. In touristic areas, these are available at many shops as well. For parcels, it's much better to use international courier services such as DHL, TNT or UPS.
External Links
Contributors
Utrecht (79%)
from http://utrecht.travellerspoint.com
tuyo-abdoul (16%)
from Egypt Go Tours
as well as Peter (5%)
Help contribute to this article to share the ad revenue.
Saint Catherine Travel Helpers
We don't currently have any Travel Helpers for Saint Catherine
This is version 4. Last edited at 1:53 on May 14, 13 by Peter. 3 articles link to this page.
Except where otherwise noted, content of this article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License
