Sinai Peninsula Egypt Complete Guide 2026: Mount Sinai, Dahab, Sharm el-Sheikh, St Catherine's Monastery and Red Sea Diving
Browse more guides: Egypt travel | Africa and Middle East (transcontinental) destinations Sinai Peninsula Egypt Complete Guide 2026: Mount Sinai, Dahab, Sharm el-Sheikh, St Catherine's Monastery and Red Sea Diving TL;DR I want to put the advisory framing first because Sinai is not a normal destination you breeze into without homework. The peninsula is split, in practice, into two very different travel realities. North Sinai, which covers Al-Arish, Rafah and Bir al-Abd along the Mediterranean coast, has been under an active travel warning from most Western governments for years due to ongoing security operations against insurgent groups. I did not visit North Sinai and I am not recommending it in this guide. The US State Department, the UK FCDO and most major foreign ministries currently warn against all travel to that zone, and you should verify the latest position from your own country's foreign office before booking anything. South Sinai is a different story. The tourist...