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Sinai · Saint Catherine, South Sinai

The Bedouin tables of Saint Catherine

Bread baked under the sand, wood-fire tea and mountain stew.

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Among the Jebeliya of Saint Catherine, the meal comes after the descent from the mountain: farashih baked in embers, vegetable stew, tea with mountain herbs. These are family tables, often attached to a house or a camp.

The extra bit

Ask for Bedouin bread baked under the ashes: what you will find nowhere else in Egypt.

Know before you go

A mountain village at 1,600 m: nights are cold all year, and kitchens close early.

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Saint Catherine village, South Sinai

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