We arrange trips to Sinai, Egypt – come with us for the experience of a lifetime

Sinai Journeys is a small organisation with close personal links to the Bedouin people of South Sinai and we have been taking people there for over 20 years.

We facilitate journeys to encourage mutually beneficial cultural and practical links with the Bedouin people and adventurers from the West. This usually takes the form of building a small dam together, in order to increase water supplies in this desert region. We also organise journeys that include other practical actions such as orchard garden restorations. Most journeys involve trekking in the Sinai mountains, sometimes climbing Mt Sinai, or visiting desert regions.

Due to drought, changing climate, and increased use of water from the underground aquifers, the water table has dropped throughout the region, and wells have gone dry. The Bedouin used to rely on growing orchard crops and vegetables in their mountain gardens but this way of life fell into disuse when the drought came. Through restorations of wells and building dams, access to water is being restored and now the people have a means of supporting their families. The work of Sinai Journeys and the participants we take there are supporting an ancient and traditional way of life for the Indigenous inhabitants of this region.

As the Bedouin say ” Water is Life –  Without Water We are Nothing”

In return, as guests of the Bedouin, we have a glimpse into another culture and life in a different landscape. For many of us the journeys have been magical adventures to a beautiful place, far away from the rat race of our commercially based fraught lives.  They have been times of retreat, and silence, where we have space to get to know ourselves better.  Past participants have talked of life changing experiences and ‘the most amazing experience of my life’.  

Join us in an adventure into a different world

People ~ Spirit ~ Environment

The Sinai Desert is home to a remarkable nomadic people. Here the tradition is nomadic, though the tide is toward settling. For most of us, our tradition is that of the settler, but maybe the tide for us is toward the nomadic. Here is an opportunity for a meeting of the two traditions, here in the clear light of the desert, where so many meetings have taken place before—between East and West, between Africa and Asia, between ancient and modern, and, not least, between people and their spiritual needs.

This meeting place is a spectacular and dramatic landscape, alive with astonishing colour and sensuous form, a landscape in which remarkable stories have taken place.

This is the land of the Burning Bush, the Exodus, the Tablets of Stone—from the ‘wilderness’ of Sinai and the surrounding region the prophets of three major world religions have emerged. It is a land of miracles and a place of personal discovery. It is a land of struggles and a place of spiritual journeys. Silver sand and golden rock, pink granite mountains and green oasis gardens—a wind-carved wilderness, yet rich in human history.