{"id":417,"date":"2011-01-26T18:15:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T18:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highlightstoursofisrael.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2015-06-08T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T09:59:15","slug":"saint-catherines-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highlightstourofisrael.com\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Saint Catherine&#8217;s Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Daily departure from Eilat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early morning pick up (05.30 am) and drive to Taba border. Cross the border into Egypt and drive through the magnificent Sinai desert. The Sinai is a triangular piece of land inhabited by the Bedouin \u2013 the nomadic people of the desert.<br \/>\nAs we drive, marvel at the contrast between the different shades of blue of the Red Sea and the varying colors and formations of the mountains of the desert.<br \/>\nArrive at Saint Catherine\u2019s for a visit to the oldest monastery in the world where the monks still go about their daily chores.<br \/>\nVisit the chamber of skulls and the site of the burning bush.<br \/>\nAfter lunch, there will be a visit to the rock of inscriptions and, time and weather permitting, a chance to swim in the warm clear waters of the Red Sea.<br \/>\nReturn to Eilat.<\/p>\n<p>[form 3 &#8220;Order&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily departure from Eilat Early morning pick up (05.30 am) and drive to Taba border. Cross the border into Egypt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[142,136],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlightstourofisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlightstourofisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlightstourofisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlightstourofisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlightstourofisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlightstourofisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlightstourofisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlightstourofisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlightstourofisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlightstourofisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlightstourofisrael.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}