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Image Gallery
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Farsh Rabba is home
to a unique and fragile ecosystem with the World's smallest
butterfly (Sinai Baton Blue Butterfly), an endemic species
of the Sinai High Mountan Region
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View from Farsh Rabba
to Wadi el Arbain and over the Sinai Mountains
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The Garden of Fresh
and the beginning of Wadi Itlah, a popular gateway for hiking
and trekking tours in the Sinai Mountains
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A Church in Wadi Itlah
- the Greek Orthodox Church has many functioning churches
in Egypt, especially in Sinai
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A bustan in Wadi Itlah
with Mt. Katherine, the highest peak of Egypt, in the background
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An old Bedouin house
built adjoining a huge rock in Abu Seila - a unique architectural
style charasteristic only of the Jebeliya Bedouin tribe in
the Sinai
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The Tomb of Sheik
Awad, where there is a small Bedouin settlement in the Sinai
Mountains
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A Bedouin garden in
Naqb el Hawa - the Canyon of the Winds - which leads to Sheik
Awad
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A canyon in Wadi Sagr
- trekking and hiking tours often come this way from Galt
el Azraq
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Water trickles from
the rock in many places - here in Wadi Sagr - which the Jebeliya
Bedouin of Sinai collect in small fountains for drinking
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A Bedouin rock garden
in Abu Tuweita - hiking and trekking groups coming from Galt
el Azraq ascend through this valley
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A Bedouin house built
next to a boulder in Abu Tuweita, in the Sinai mountains
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The Blue Desert is
a popular destination for jeep safaris organized from St.
Katherine, South Sinai
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The Blue Mountain
- jeep or camel safaris can take you to Dahab, Sharm el Sheikh
or Nuweiba from St. Catherine via many different ways
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