Mount Sinai Sunrise
Mount Sinai is located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, other names of this mountain are Tur Sina, Jabal Musa and Mount Horeb. This mountain is referred to the place where Moses (Musa) received Ten Commandments from God.
Mount Sinai is 2,285 m (7,497 ft) in heights and it is the second highest mountain after Mount Catherine, also known as Gebel Katherina which is 2,629 m (8,625 ft) high. Climbing this mountain at night and seeing sunrise at the top is a religious and equally adventurous.
Climbing the Mount Sinai
A Russian group led by a guide was behind me while I was climbing on my way up to the Mount Sinai. It was dark but with the help of torch light I started to make a progress and then there was moonlight but very faint. After walking for more than 2 hours, I reached at the top but had to wait for the daylight to appear, it was breezy and very cold up there.
At the Top of the Mountain
There were many people at the top but guide told me that it was only fraction of the numbers what used to be back in the days. I rented a blanket from the sellers on the top to keep myself warm(which didn’t work really). When sun started to appear above the horizon, my guide brought to a separate area for a quiet wait, away from the groups. There were large boulders which protected me from the breeze and soon sun’s rays turned everything golden around us.
Cave of Moses
There were few groups led by some religious figures and they were praying at the top. There is a cave and it is aid that this where Moses used to pray and he spoke to God in that cave. There is also a Greek orthodox chapel at the top also but it is not open to public. This church contains a rock which have a rock known as Tablet of Stone.
I witnessed the vast, open and beautiful space known as between night and day, a process that determines our concept of time but is timeless itself because it keeps repeating. There was no better place than that holy mountain to see this drama unfold in front of my eyes.
