Africa Wild

RobertT wrote:Nice pics Lis. One thing that always amazes me about Europe is the doors opening onto the streets.

you don't have door, Robert

Do have a door, it is just further from the street. These doors open on the street.

What's the problem?

No problem, just coming from SA I find it intriguing, I watch the Tour de France just to see the houses and villages.

These houses are R E A L old and there were no sidewalks either

Nice pics, Lis!

So good to see the area neat...it has historically been obliterated over and over by wars!

Not these ones, RP (as far as I know)

Some time has passed since this topic was alive. Let me see if there is something that I can add

Scanned photos.

Egypt

Cairo

The red Sea

Southern Sinai Desert
Saint Catherine Monastery
The visit to this place was extremely interesting even if some of the stories did not sound like history to me Fantastic artworks

Saint Catherine's Monastery (Arabic: دير القدّيسة كاترين‎; Greek: Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially "Sacred Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai" (Greek: Ιερά Μονή του Θεοβαδίστου Όρους Σινά), is an Eastern Orthodox monastery located on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai, near the town of Saint Catherine, Egypt. The monastery is named after Catherine of Alexandria.

The monastery is controlled by the autonomous Church of Sinai, part of the wider Greek Orthodox Church, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Built between 548 and 565, the monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world. The site contains the world's oldest continually operating library, possessing many unique books including the Syriac Sinaiticus and, until 1859, the Codex Sinaiticus

According to tradition, Catherine of Alexandria was a Christian martyr sentenced to death on the breaking wheel. When this failed to kill her, she was beheaded. According to tradition, angels took her remains to Mount Sinai. Around the year 800, monks from the Sinai Monastery found her remains.

Although it is commonly known as Saint Catherine's, the monastery's full official name is the Sacred Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai. The patronal feast of the monastery is the Feast of the Transfiguration. The monastery has become a favourite site of pilgrimage.

Much more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Cat ... _Monastery

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