Milly

We just climbed and climbed, and half way up we saw a light and it was a tiny hut that you had to bend to go through the door, and it was actually a shop selling water and other drinks. So we took a rest...The shop keeper picked up this guitar type instrument and started singing, i thought it was cool, but then he just went on and on and on...lol...so funny, i was trying to stop my giggling, because its rude, but i couldn't help it, my friend kept making me laugh. so we left there and carried on up, the air was really fresh...and the stars in the sky with the silhouette of the mountain range was amazing. We could see the lights of the hut and other things, from where we had started, getting smaller and smaller...we could judge how far up we'd come from those lights...but soon enough, those lights disappeared! the rocks were a bit wobbly...we started climbing at 1am and we finished at about 6am...so we'd been climbing for 5hours...my hip joints were killing me!!! and my right knee was hurting, but i carried on...now i think i'm much fitter than what i was...so then we were like 30mins from the top...and the famous 700 steps to the top of Mount Sinai began...It was like the hardest steps I’ve ever taken in my life and I was dieing!!!!! I kept having to stop and the Bedouin bloke kept stopping too, and along the way, others were stopping...but the steps were narrow, so you couldn't sit, only stand and take a breather...finally we reached the top and as we were approaching, i felt like i had more energy, just because the thought of reaching the top gave me motivation...so i ran up the last few steps and then collapsed onto the coldest hardest rocks, I just lay there panting but I couldn’t feel anything except relief.

When we got there, these Arab blokes were selling mattresses (thin ones) and blankets..it was freezing...so i bought a blanket and the gave some to the Bedouin bloke because it was so long. I leaned against a bit rock looking over on to the horizon. The girls were sitting on the rock just above me and we waited for the sunrise. I was exhausted and cold but it was still nice. Jewish, Christian and Muslim people were all there in one place contemplating on the strength of the old and women and children for climbing this mountain for refuge from Pharoah...it really was an amazing feeling to have taken the same path as Moses and endured the same pain in your legs...

After that i just waited for the sun to come up and i was dozing in and out of sleep...i took some pics of mount sinai, but only two as the my batteries in my camera ran out.... So then it was daytime and everyone could see what i looked like without makeup!!!! anyway we made our way down, and i was well tired and my knee was killing, so i took a camel down to the bottom...but at i was travelling, the back bone of the camel was jabbing my inner thighs...so this really kind, english speaking guide changed the saddal for me and then i jumped back on and made it back to the bottom. It was really hot by the time we got down, must have been afternoon time...so we sat and chatted for ages.