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 On the asphalt road which goes from Sharm el Sheikh to saint Katherina via Daheb, you can visit archaeological and nature sites of great interest .
There is a good viewing point, at a crossing , from where you can admire the spectacle of the huge
Wadi Ghazala , or "valley of the gazelles" .
There is a track on the right after eight kilometers, short but very sandy - a cross country vehicle is necessary, which loads to the sight of some isolated sandstones, known as the
Rocks Of Inscriptions .Its name derives from the
presence of numerous graffiti from the Byzantine, medioeval and Nabatean ages .
After a few hundred meters you arrive at the so called Observation point _ a viewing point overlooking the small oasis of
Ain Khudra . You can get there on foot via the narrow path which goes down to Wadi Ghazala or in a cross _ country vehicle along the difficult track in the Wadi Ghazala .
Despite its tiny size, Ain Khudra is one of the most beautiful oases in Sinai with its green palm _ trees surrounded by sand of an intense yellow, its springs and the habitations of the
Bedouin tribesmen who live there . But its mush more besides : its location of great historical interest as it was on the route used in the Byzantine age by the pilgrims on their way to Eilat, the ancient Aila, to Saint Katherina and to the Wadi Feiran . there is an archaeological site of great interest a few kilometers from the Observation point, in the part of the desert which goes in the opposite direction to the asphalt road .
Here you can admire one of the most beautiful concentrations of Nawamis ( meaning flies in Arabic ) in Sinai .
These are small, circular ,dry-stone buildings with west-facing entrances, and
they were used as burial-grounds between the Chalcolithic and bronze ages in the fourth millennium B.C.
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