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SinaiThe Sinai Peninsula is a triangle-shaped peninsula lying between the Mediterranean Sea (to the north) and Red Sea (to the south), located in Egypt and has an area of about 60,000 square kilometers. Its land borders are the Suez Canal to the west and the Israel-Egypt border to the north-east. The Sinai Peninsula is in Southwest Asia (also called West Asia - the more geographically accurate term for the Western term [esp. American usage] of Middle East) while the rest of Egypt is in North Africa. For geopolitical purposes, the Sinai is often considered part of Africa (as the rest of Egypt is). more...
History of SinaiThe Sinai was inhabited by the Monitu and was called Mafkat or Country of Turquoise. From the time of the First dynasty or before, the Egyptians mined turquoise in Sinai at two locations, Wadi Maghareh and Serabit el-Khadim. They were operated on and off on a seasonal basis for thousands of years. Modern attempts to exploit the deposits have been unprofitable. These may be the first known mines. more... Geology of SinaiSinai, the triangular-shaped peninsula of Egypt, is situated between Asia and Africa. The separation of the two continents caused the form and geographical shape of Sinai the way it looks today. Sinai is approx. 380 km long (north - south) and 210 km wide (west - east). The surface area has an extension of 61.000 km², the coasts are streching about 600 km on the west and on the east. On the western part there is the Gulf of Suez (with the Suez channel) and the eastern part of Sinai brings up the much deeper Gulf of Aqaba. The sea in the Gulf of Suez measures approx. 80 meters only, while the profile of the Gulf of Aqaba goes down to approx. 1.830 meters. The latter is a part of the big land rift that extends until Kenya. more... Climate of SinaiSinai's weather is easy to summarize: it is very hot and dry. However, there are significant differences in temperature between day and night. Considering some mountains are over 2.000 meters high, the temperature might sometimes vary for more than 30°C. more... Also Read: Sports in Sinai | Desert of Sinai
Accommodations and Food
The search for budget accommodations in Al-Arish is an ordeal. The beachside Moonlight Hotel (tel. 34 13 62; to reserve rooms from Cairo, tel. 24 81 28), on Fouad Zakry St., 50m west of the tourist office, has petite rooms for LE10 and a view of the ...
Practical Information
The Al-Arish bus station is at the southeast corner of Baladiya Sq. The town's main thoroughfare from there, July 23 St., runs north to the sea, where it meets Fouad Zakry St. The tourist office is on Fouad Zakry (tel. 34 05 69), about 1km west of its ...
AE-Arish
Along the road from Al-Arish to Ismailiya, camels frolic among fried palms, blitzed villages, and gutted tanks. A few signs w;im wistfully of the dangers of overtaking on a wet road. AI-Arish itself, "The Paris of the Al-Arish municipal area," offers even less distraction than the monotonous journey there. ...
Western & Northern Sinai
The Sinai Peninsulas west coast doesn't compare in beauty to the Aqaba Gulf side. The Gulf of Suez is a much shallower body of water with neither reefs nor nigged peaks hugging the beaches. It's therefore less of a tragedy that the Suez coast is dotted with ...
Accommodations
Most travelers come to St. Catherine's to camp on the cool summit of Mt. Sinai (10°C in June nights). If not, the monastery's youth hostel (tel. 77 09 45) offers clean but cramped rooms, each with bunkbeds (without A/C and fans, for LE25, all meals included; attached toilet and ...
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