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Hike Mount Abbas to the Palace Foundation

Hike Mount Abbas Basha, or Jabal Abbas, is located in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, in Saint Catherine City. It’s in the southwest of Saint Catherine City. 3 hours from Sharm El-Sheikh, 1.5 hours from Dahab, and 6 hours from Cairo. Mount Abbas is one of the important mountains in Saint Catherine, and the khedive Abbas Helmy He was suffering from tuberculosis, and he wants to spend his treatment period there. In the middle of the eighteenth century, only the foundation of the palace was built up the summit of the mount. The Khedive died, and the construction of the palace stopped. St. Catherine was a city for treatment and hospitalisation in the past. The distance from Saint Catherine City to Wadi El-Zawatin is almost 3.5 km, with a rocky and sandy trail where an old woman from the Jibalya tribe lives, “Om El-Saad, “and then 3.5 km from Wadi El-Zawatin to the summit of Mount Abbas Basha. The best time to start the hike from Saint Catherine City is in the morning.