The town of St. Catherine is in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt 1600 meters above sea level, at the foot of the Sinai High Mountains. Up to a thousand visitors come to visit St. Katherine’s Monastery, the oldest monastery in the world built on the site where Moses talked to God in the miracle of the Burning Bush, and to climb Mt. Sinai where Moses has received the Ten Commandments. There are many other historical places from the Pharaonic, Nabatean, and Byzantine times, or more recent sites, such as the Palace of Abbas Hilmi I. Pasha. Apart from the red granite rock which takes most of the Sinai High Mountain Region, there are 10-million-year-old black volcanic rock formations. The area is full of natural and cultural wonders. barren mountain wadis where there are beautiful Bedouin gardens and buildings set among amazing rock formations.