Sinai Trail

Egypt's 1st long-distance hiking trail: 550km & 42 days, eight Bedouin tribes. Voted one of the world's best new trails & BGTW award winner.

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

'We worked all together & this is for the new generation to continue... It is a present for our children'. Words of Sabbah Eid, a founder of our sister project, the Wadi Rum Trail, in a piece about the old Bedouin climbing routes at the heart of the trail by @mespanolescofet

[Ben Hoffler @landofthesand]

'They tell of a long tradition of climbing among the Bedouin, who'd ascend mountains barefoot & often alone to hunt, hide, find water & collect plants...' @mespanolescofet on the Bedouin climbing routes at the heart of the Wadi Rum Trail 4 @MiddleEastEye
https://t.co/2yT8cOKYhM

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

@lastoadri Start by having a look at the Bedouin Trail website: https://t.co/qU1fPIaRWB, you'll find maps & info on each part of the trail & how to arrange it. A full thru hike of the intercontinental route between Africa & Asia is planned for 2024, so watch this space 👍

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

The #Sinai Trail is proud to be playing a central role in the opening of the 1st intercontinental hiking route between Africa & Asia. Connecting #Petra & #Luxor & #Egypt & #Jordan it runs 1000+km thru the lands of 7 #Bedouin tribes & will be the longest trail in the Arab World

[Lonely Planet @lonelyplanet]

📢 NEWS 📢 Travelers to Jordan now have a brand-new way to experience the iconic desert of Wadi Rum: on the 75-mile Wadi Rum Trail.
https://t.co/3U0yIXzhr2

[ClimateHeritage @ClimateHeritage]

Congrats to the Wadi Rum trail!! At #COP27 in Egypt we were proud to partner with Bedouin tribes that co-created the Sinai Trail and now we’re thrill to see this sister project launched in Jordan!
⚡️Bedouin knowledge is climate technology!⚡️

[Ben Hoffler @landofthesand]

After 3+ years of work happy to be part of the team launching the Wadi Rum Trail. A 120km, 10 day hiking circuit, sister project of #Egypt's Sinai Trail & Red Sea Mt Trail & 1st of the region's long-distance trails to integrate rock climbing. See https://t.co/KqblGD7veN ⭐️🐪💚

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

“It’s v different than most of what we do over Egypt. You feel v safe with the people... It’s pristine, it’s undiscovered. And I like building some muscles.” Thru hiker Leena El Samra in a piece about #Egypt's two sister trails by P. Scott & S. Diab 🐪⭐️💚https://t.co/IUZwALilgL

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

'We're afraid about what's next. What's coming after this..?' #COP27 is in #Sinai soon & we hope the local #Bedouin experience of the #ClimateCrisis will be a part of the convo that unfolds. Short vid of some of Sinai's Bedouin tribesmen here longer 1 @ https://t.co/tB4Timg2mp💚

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

The Sinai Trail will be organising a special event soon to help underline the value #Bedouin knowledge of the #environment can have in global conversations about #climate change ahead of #COP27 which will be in #Sinai itself this Nov. Find out more here 👇
https://t.co/P2pezMkczF

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

The Sinai Trail will be running its 1st ever thru hike of the full trail this Oct! Running 550km over 52 days it'll cross the lands of all 8 Bedouin tribes in S. Sinai, taking hikers deep in2 one of the world's most fabled wildernesses. See https://t.co/XdekY6eLOg & DM to join ⭐️

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

The Sinai Trail recently finished its 1st thru hikes since the start of the #pandemic. 3 hikes totalling nearly 40 days ran on different parts of the trail with hikers from #Egypt & beyond. After 2 yrs the trail is working fully again; big thanks to all hikers & guides 🐪⭐️❤️

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

Autumn is one of the best times to hike the #Sinai Trail & we have 2 trips starting 26 Nov: a 2 day trip with Um Yasser - the Sinai Trail's 1st #Bedouin woman guide - & a 5 day #camel caravan journey in the beautiful highlands of St Katherine. Msg us ASAP to join ⭐️🐪💚

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

The #Sinai has inspired #poets #artists & #dreamers 4 1000s of yrs & it remains a place of inspiration for many today! Lobna El Gammal is a hiker who began to write poetry after journeys on the trail & she is sharing it publicly on IG @ellobziwrites wishing her lots of luck ⭐️

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

Since 2017 St Katherine-based start-up Mountain Rose has been turning traditional produce from #Sinai's old mountain orchards into energy bars, trail mix & snacks for Sinai Trail hikers. They're @ #Cairo's Turathna exhib daily til 15 Oct go support a gr8 initiative if you can 🍇

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

The Sinai Trail is open for another season of hikes & we'll be going to one of the most spectacular parts of the entire trail on 29 & 30 Oct: the beautiful, winding canyon of Al Zarnoog by the Gulf of Aqaba. Check out the event & msg us ASAP to join https://t.co/711oH1yBok 🐪⭐️❤️

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

The #Sinai Trail is opening again & you can join up for the 1st trip of the new season! 24/25 Sep we'll walk with #Guides of the Jebeleya tribe, crossing the peaks of Jebel el Ahmar to #Egypt's highest summit Jebel Katherina. Click to join 👇🐪 ⛰️
https://t.co/b7FvEVZP4Q

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

The #Sinai Trail is opening for a new season of hikes! The season will run 8 months from Sep to Apr & every month we'll hike in the territory of a different #Bedouin tribe. Here's our #trips calendar & the 1st 3 trips. Come when you can & plz help spread the word 🐪❤️⭐️

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

The Red Sea Mountain Trail is mainland Egypt’s first long-distance trail, opening to outsiders an area that few travelers have explored in recent decades https://t.co/PhlNWPWtiu

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

Every part of the Sinai Trail has its own special look & feel. The southerly section is the most remote of all, traversing a region of high mountains whose #summits look over the #redsea to #Africa & #Asia . Hikers climb 4 of the #Sinai's biggest peaks in succession ⛰️

[Sinai Trail @sinaitrail]

Wishing everybody in #Egypt & beyond Happy #Eid! The #Sinai's night #skies are beginning to #sparkle in the summer #meteor shower & will be ever more beautiful over the next weeks so we've written #EidMubarak in the stars this year! #EidAdhaMubarak everybody! #EidAlAdha