Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, separates mainland Egypt from Israel and Jordan, and the Mediterranean from the Red Sea. Mount Sinai is a mountain massif in the south central part of the peninsula, where the land tapirs into a triangular point, surrounded on two of its three sides by gulfs of the Red Sea. Mount Sinai is a barren rocky massif, rising from red sandy plains. Well that's what you can get from any atlas or history book anyway. But whilst Mount Sinai is fairly unremarkable in the scheme of mountains, its not the tallest and it looks the same as the others nearby, it has something about it ...
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