preparing my trip to the Sinai will be flying to Sharm-El-Sheikh next Tuesday Jan 10 - in contact with some bedouin guides and tribes over there... I will be in the area of St Castherine monastery and Mt Sinai... Plan on spending some time by the Gulf of Aqaba in Dahab and Nuweiba before crossing into Jordan - Treks in the wadi Rum area and heading to Petra and then Amman after that - Excited! I'll keep you posted on new developments...