Mount Sinai Sunrise Experience & St Catherine Monastery

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Itinerary

1. This tour is a bus trip to the most famous mountain on Sinai where Moses received the Ten Commandments. You will be picked up from your hotel in Sharm el Sheikh in the late evening and transferred for 3 hours to Moses Mountain.

   3 h

2. At 02.00am you will then start the 3-hour climb of 2,285m up the mountain guided by one of our guides. You can climb by following a long path which leads to 700 steps. This takes you to the top of the mountain on time for the sunrise where you can enjoy a beautiful view. If you feel you can't climb the mountain you can get a camel ride that takes you to the 700 steps. After the sunrise, you will get down and take your vehicle back to sharm El Sheikh.

   6 h

3. After getting down from the mount sinai, you will be met with your guide by the gate of the monastery, where you will visit the transfiguration Church, the burning Bush the well of the prophet Moses, than transfer back to your hotel in Sharm. The monastery is opened for tourists for less time due to the covid.

   3 h

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

Reviews

Ratings come from 31 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.

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• 5Mt Sinai❤️

  Must do if your in Sharm and are a follower of any of the three abrahamic faiths, view from the top was truly special. God bless ✝️

  Calum_PSeptember 2026via Viator

• 5An amazing adventure

  Pickup was efficient and Sami and the driver were great and got us to the starting point with bathroom and snack stop about halfway there and home again safely the next day. Then we were handed over to a Beduoin guide to lead us up the mountain. He was very nice and spoke good English and kept us together part of the way up. Then two European tourists in the group were slowing down and comandeered him as their personal guide, holding his arms the rest of the way up and all the way down next day. I suppose that's inevitable as everyone has their own pace. However, i'm sure i'm not the only one in the group who felt that he became their personal guide and I suppose that he has to go as slow as the slowest and most struggling people in the group. I reached the top solo and felt a little alone, but not too much as there were possibly a couple of hundred people there! 😄 the hike was strenuous and well worth it and the sunrise was most beautiful! Try to get a little fit before you go and it will be more fun. Wearing good shoes will help too. I advise Tourex with Trip Advisor for this tour

  WG4everSeptember 2026via Tripadvisor

• 4Spectacular Sunrise

  Amazing experience. Driver and guide were very helpful. The walk up the mountain was pretty strenuous and the Bedouin guide wouldn't let anyone stop to drink water. Seemed like they wanted people to hire camels. Once at the top the sunrise was spectacular. Something everyone should do, but probably only once.

  David_PAugust 2026via Viator

• 5Very nice trip!

  Good organization. Beautiful sunrise. I liked that our guides were really thinking about everybody, you could take snacks and coffee/tea almost every 2 km. Also, if you are tired, you could take a camel to the highest part of the mountain. The hardest thing for me was not sleeping for the whole night. Sunrise is perfect, worth it!

  M377DEannapMarch 2026via Tripadvisor

• 4Experience never to forget

  Khaled and Ahmed are nice guides that try to give you the best experience. The adventure is something never to forget. The views are breathtaking and it felt like an expidition. Truly an experience never to forget. However, the bedouins should more attentive when bad weather conditions arise! Egypt is experiencing unusual weather changes now and they should have been more adapting to the situation. Overall good experience with nice views

  zakariaa915March 2026via Tripadvisor

• 5Amazing expérience

  Very nice guide, group and experience. Thank you, mont Sinaï was beautiful

  MarineobserverMarch 2026via Tripadvisor

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How it compares in Sharm el Sheikh

• Its from-price is 41% below the median of the 1150 experiences we list in Sharm el Sheikh.
• It is longer than most of them.
• By number of reviews it ranks 148 of 1150.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Sharm el Sheikh

Sharm el Sheikh sits at the southern tip of the Sinai, a Red Sea resort famed for coral reefs, desert mountains and sunshine in every season.

The coast is lined with resort bays such as Naama Bay, the lively centre with a promenade of restaurants and bars, and quieter Sharks Bay and Nabq. The real treasure lies underwater: coral reefs come right up to the shore, alive with colourful fish, turtles and rays.

Top-ranked sights in Sharm el Sheikh: Ras Mohammed National Park, Sharm el Sheikh Old Market, Mt. Sinai.

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