The High Mountain Region, home to the Jabaleya Bedouin, is situated around the town of St. Katherine. The town itself lies at around 1600 meters from ocean level, and a considerable lot of the mountains around it are over 2000 meters, with Mt. Katherine the tallest at 2642 meters. The most renowned attractions are the Monastery of St.

Katherine and Mt. Sinai because of their strict and verifiable importance, yet the bigger region, generally secret for most Westerners, is an exceptional trekkers’ heaven. In view of its rise the zone gets more precipitation than the remainder of the Sinai landmass and, in spite of the dry spell, is still moderately wet – it is a desert environment, however there are several Bedouin plantations and two or three lasting common waterpools in which you can swim. The territory is for the most part stone with the trademark smooth red arches and shrouded bowls, albeit about 20% is more current volcanic stone, dark shaded and secured with broken, free rock. The two stone sorts regularly consolidate, with a large portion of a mountain having a place with one and the other to the next stone kind.

There are numerous dykes, dull stripes of volcanic stone interruptions, slicing through the red rock. The entire district remains over the remainder of the promontory, and from its border you can see down to the fields or littler extents encompassing it. The atmosphere is cooler than the remainder of Egypt’s, making conceivable a one of a kind verdure and a wide assortment of tamed natural product species. In winter there may be day off the temperatures can drop far beneath zero at higher heights, in spite of the fact that the days are generally still wonderfully warm. The zone is brimming with attractions, all altogether different in nature, and intriguing treks are conceivable. To see a decent assortment of scenes and spots of intrigue, at least 5 days is suggested, albeit even 2 days can give a decent impression. To cover the greater part of the territory would take as long as about fourteen days. The Jabaleya have an innate imposing business model over treks in the area and everyone, people or administrators, must compose treks through Sheik Mousa’s office.

Aides are assigned concurring a turning framework giving work to the entire network – they are commonly acceptable and will lead you the way, make tea and food, however correspondence is frequently constrained. On the off chance that you need a guide of your decision you despite everything need to pay a guide whose turn it is, which makes treks increasingly costly for people or little gatherings. In any case, treks to the high mountains are energetically suggested as it is in reality an exceptionally remarkable territory.