Leave from the hotel at 13:00hrs and drive by car into the accessible part of the Sinai, where your camels will be waiting. The Bedouin Sheikh of the area and his family are located at Nawamis, an ancient worship ground dating back to around 3000BC. From here you shall head into the desert and set up camp at Wadi Ghilim, approximately 2hrs camel trek away. Dinner is served around the fire, with tales from the elder Bedouins, music and singing. Tonight you’ll sleep under the star in your open Bedouin tent or private dome tents.

After breakfast all equipment is loaded onto the camels, and you move northeast on the route which leads to Wadi Rum. Continuing on towards Ein Hudra you descend into the valley from a location offering a superb view of the whole oasis. Ein Hudra is an ideal place to camp, with spectacular surrounding desert to explore. Wadi Hudra is a wide valley of sandstone mountains, with a natural sculpture called the Frozen Rock created by wind erosion. Sand dunes can be found in abundance and the wildlife of the region varies from the desert fox and gazelle to wild goats and chirping wheatears. Dinner is prepared and cooked on the open fire, with another evening under the stars.

Rising with the sun is always a good start to the day and after breakfast you’ll head out in a southerly direction entering the colourful limestone area of Mt Matamir, with mountains soaring to 1000m, sand dunes and narrow canyons. The view from the summit is spectacular, and is an optional climb while lunch is being prepared. After lunch your trek continues on to Wadi Zaranig, an excellent location for relaxation given its vast openness and high plateau’s. Camp is set up, dinner served and you settle down for an evening of relaxation listening to Sinai folktales.

Today you trek further south, approximately 1 hr through the sand dune area of Bir Safra, which takes its name from a fresh water well. It is here that, our eco-lodge has been set-up, home to a family from the Mezzaina Bedouin tribe. Bir, directly translates as “well”, and is a strong factor in choosing a location in which to settle. Daily life revolves around this point and is crucial to any camp. You’ll be warmly welcomed and find it easy to interact with family members and adopt an understanding of their way of life and how the deal with living in such an environment. A garden of fruits, plants and foodstuffs for the livestock has been cultivated on the site and you will have to opportunity to offer aid and knowledge to the project. Dinner is taken in the traditional style - platters of food laid out and everyone sat around eating from communal dishes. After dinner the evening is spent relaxing around the fire and going over the events and activities of the day.

The second day within our eco-lodge gives you a further in-depth look at the life of the Bedouin and their traditional values and covers the duties of both men and women: bread making, beading and needlework, food preparation, and social gatherings where current affairs are discussed with the sheikh and the men of the tribe. After lunch you’ll head off into the “Laurence of Arabia”-style desert, an amazing expanse of diverse landscape, introducing, dunes, rock sculptures and a great stillness along with panoramic views. Dinner is prepared and served around the camp fire, and you enjoy your last evening sleeping under the stars.