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Jebel Safsafa.

We set off on our journey to Cairo at mid-day on a Saturday and arrived there – via a long layover in Paris – in the middle of the night on Sunday. Flying in this age of Covid is a bit more bumpy: for example, Air France strictly requires single-use surgical masks (cloth reusables are not kosher) which we were not aware of. Fortunately, all went fairly smoothly. A quick night in a Cairo airport hotel and a morning hop to Sharm El-Sheikh where Misha was waiting for us. From there we drove 2 hours to the village of St. Catherine which is just south of the center of the Sinai Peninsula. There we would stay in a place called Fox Camp for about 5 nights. The place was certainly not busy but there were a handful of other visitors (Euros) and even a few climbers (all of them Ukrainian).

Photos

Travel essentials. A bottle of the red stuff and you can eat almost anything (Dec. 2020).

Camping out during our long layover at CDG (Dec. 2020).

Team PPE at CDG (Dec. 2020).

Cairo-bound finally (Dec. 2020).

A short, 4 hour hop put us in Cairo in the middle of the night (Dec. 2020).

Sharm El-Sheikh the following morning (Dec. 2020).

Oh yeah.

Arriving at Fox Camp on the outskirts of St. Catherine (Dec. 2020).

Fox Camp (Dec. 2020).

Our chilly room at Fox Camp (Dec. 2020).

Astroturf in St. Catherine and Jebel Safsafa (Dec. 2020).

Looking for dinner on our first evening in St. Catherine (Dec. 2020).

Dinner companion (Dec. 2020).

Jebel Safsafa on our hike back from town to Fox Camp (Dec. 2020).

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