Mt. Sinai (Jebel Musa)
Other names/spellings: Mt., Mount, Jabal, Gebel, Gabal, Djebel, Djabal – Horeb, Moses, Musa, Mousa, Moussa
- Mt. Sinai range: apart from the summit most people visit, it includes Jebel Loza, Jebel Safsafa and many secluded basins.
- Mt. Sinai summit: a church and a mosque stand on top of the holy peak.
- Stairs of Repentance: one of the main tourist routes to/from the summit, in a steep gully connecting Elijah’s Basin and the Monastery. The other tourist route is the Camel Path.
- Elijah’s Basin (Farsh Eliya): a big basin below the summit, with Byzantine ruins and tall cypress trees in a walled courtyard.
- Farsh Loza: a little basin on the way to Farsh Safsafa, with a church, well and an almond tree.
- Farsh Arimziya (Farsh Abu Deesa): hidden near Farsh Loza, there is a church in the basin and a couple of shady trees, as well as a look-out point with birds-eye view on the Monastery and a big dam nearby.
- Jebel Safsafa: a dramatic granite double-peak towering above the town of St. Katherine, part of the Mt. Sinai range.
- Farsh Safsafa: a secluded basin below the peaks of Jebel Safsafa with a garden and church, and a look-out point nearby in Wadi Shaby offering views on the Nabu Harun area of town.
- Kinist el Hmar: a church on the edge of the massif in a shallow basin, with a steep route connecting it to Wadi Farah and Wadi Arbain below.
- Wadi Arbain: an alternative route to Mt. Sinai, with the Rock of Moses (Hajar Musa) and the Monastery of the Forty Martyrs.
