An accessible mountain peak for beginners in the world of mountain hiking. The summit is close to the city of Saint Catherine and can be reached by taking the Negev Abu Jifa to climb. The summit has the ruins of an ancient royal resting place that was being built as a place to recover from asthma. It enjoys a dry climate.

This is a must do hike..doing the hike up the mountain was amazing, at night you enjoy the stars and quiteness and when the sun rises you see the most beautiful view...sinai mountains are really unique

Amazing sunrise - beautiful spot

Must visit at least once in your lifetime

Watching the sunrise from the summit worth all the Hiking effort

Good place to hike

The best sun rises love

The best place ever

One of the hard mountain of Sinai

The place is where you feel the purity of the soul and mind like that, the sunrise is above dangerous, its fall very, but sweet, the road all the beauty around you and something very beautiful, you will not stay the last time, God willing 💪🏻⛰Catherine is the best place possible that separates you from anything in the world ♥ ️

Just as millions of people worldwide suffer and continue to suffer from diseases and epidemics that cannot be cured except by changing the place of residence for a certain period of time, which is what medical or hospital tourism means. King Abbas Pasha I was suffering from asthma, so doctors advised her at that time to stay in one of the The regions are dry weather, so King Abbas Pasha planned to build a palace above the third highest mountain peak in Saint Catherine, in the hope of recovering and recovering in the healthy mountain air.He has already started building the palace on an area of ​​450 square meters and this 2383-meter-high mountain was chosen as the land for the establishment of the palace, which can be climbed starting from the city of Saint Catherine to the summit in a time period of up to 3 and a half hours via the Abu Jifah pestle through With a skeptical eye (a spring of drinking water), the canyon valley and the Zouateen area led to the summit of Jabal Abbas Pasha.Muhammad Hamid Al-Sanea, deputy director of the St. Catherine Reserve, who is the last to climb the mountain, confirms that it is rumored that King Abbas Pasha I chose this mountain, which was called Mount Abbas Pasha, after placing pieces of meat on several mountain peaks and noting how slow it is to decompose on this mountain. Other than the mountains, and in another version of this story that the monks residing in St. Catherine, told him that the corruption of flesh here is less in order to keep him away from Mount Sinai, which he originally intended to build on his palace.The deputy director of the St. Catherine Protectorate says: King Abbas I Pasha began construction and building in 1853 AD, but he died in the following year 1854 CE and the construction of the palace, which was to be considered an architectural masterpiece unparalleled at that time, was still pending, and the palace that has not yet been completed is still deserted on top and can be seen From the bottom of the mountain is clear.King Abbas Pasha I had decided to construct the palace on two floors, and the granite blocks that were not used are still lying and scattered, and the gates were not completed and surrounded by impressive lintels of square shape and square area, and a material was used to replace cement when building, a material that was made of crushers Limestone deposits on rocks inundated with water.The journey to climb and walk to the area and the summit of Mount Abbas Pasha is a medical, hospital, environmental and touristic medical treatment, which confirms that St. Catherine is not only devoted to religious tourism, but also to hospital tourism of asthma.

The mountain is very sweet and you will see all of Catherine from above.. in a net above when you look up

Worth the tiring of this beautiful, enjoyable trip

You need to use bedouin, a guide

Lovely trail

The place is worth tiring

Beautiful wadies, Zawateen

Worth a visit