News Headline
After droughts and flood, project aims to preserve Sinai mountain gardens
Source
Egypt Independent
Publication Date
2013-03-08
Around St. Catherine’s Monastery, encircled by the high South Sinai mountains, lie hundreds of Bedouin gardens nested in the nearby wadis, or valleys. These gardens, which were initially built during the Byzantine period by monks, hermits and settlers from around the Mediterranean, have been the responsibility of the Jabaleya Bedouins for more than a century