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Sunday Times Travel - 28 January 2007
Lured to the southern Sinai by the legend of it's nomadic tribes and biblical landscape, Christine Toomey found more than she bargained for when she went camel- trekking, camped under the stars and fell under the desert's spell.
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Sinaiticus - 2006
Transfigurations and Transformations
by Emma Loveridge
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Godolphin & Latymer
On 18th March 2005 a group of twenty-six overexcited Godolphin girls gathered outside school in anticipation of the journey to come.
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The Times - 16th November 2002
Mike Gerrard meets a group of women who have created a thriving business
from a love of travel and foreign culture.
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The Independent - 15th Septemer 2002
Camping with the Bedou in Egypt requires respect for their ways, discovers
Adrian Mourby, not to mention their scorpions.
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Aiglon Life - December 2000
Scorching hot, desolate, devoid of civilisation as you know it... in
the desert you are forced to be alone because there is nothing else.
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The Sinai has been described as the place where the heavens touch the
earth. If you want adventure, explore this fabulous land.
Picture caption: Camel treking: the best way to explore the desert.
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Parish News - May 1999
High on a stony mountainside at the old turquoise mines of Magharah is
a bas-relief. It shows an Egyptian beating a cowering Semitic slave
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Pulse
In July/August of this year, a team of health trust professionals, set
out on a fascinating trip to assess the needs of Bedoiun people of the
Sinai peninsular.
David Beverley, Consultant Paediatrician, documents their amazing journey.
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See Hear Magazine
The Magic Of The Desert
Beautiful sandstone desert, ancient historical sites, camel trekking,
the famous Red Sea coral and sleeping under brilliant night skies bursting
with stars.
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The Art Newspaper
The-Art Newspaper has been granted extrordinary access to the world's
oldest continuously inhabited monastery, which is taking rapid steps
to open up to the outside world.
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The Church Times
Riding high with the BedouinCamel-trekking in the silent, deserts of
Sinai and sleeping under stars gives an insight into an ancient way of
life, Felicity Bryan discovered
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The Draconian
This year was the first time that the Dragon had organised a trip to
Sinai and, judging from the enthusiasm of all of us who went, 1 am sure
it will not be the last.
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The Tablet
There are 3,000 steps up the side of Mount Sinai. I climbed them only
to find that at the top I encountered, not God, but a character who called
himself Super-Mike, of whom more in a moment.
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The Travel Guide
The 'other' Holy land of Sinai. Mike Gerrard reports. When Christians
talk, or dream, of visiting the Holy Land, they invariably mean Bethlehem
or Jerusalem. But there is another Holy Land - Egypt's Sinai Desert.
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Under Innumerable Stars
Last summer Hildry Murdoch (1997) spent a month in the Sinai Desert,
researching for her geography undergraduate dissertation.
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Wycombe Abbey School
Not many people have had the chance to experience the sound of natural
silence, let alone several days of it. Visiting the Sinai was a lifetime
experience. It was a completely new world with noticeable effects of
modern influence.
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