Some Travel Sites in the Eastern Part of the E Tih Heights in the Sinai Desert

In the autumn of 1981, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) organized two tours to the eastern part of the E Tih heights, which is located in eastern Sinai in Egypt. The geological section in that region includes limestone cliffs on the tops of some of the mountains in that region, as well as several types of sandstones, and also igneous rocks at its base. The topographical heights in that region range from around 1000 m ASL in the eastern part of the E Tih heights to sea level at the shore of the Gulf of Eilat. The aerial distances between those two regions range from 8 km to 10 km. Because of those height differences, some of the eastern parts of the E Tih heights are drained by deep canyons, which also go through that geological section. Consequently, some of the canyons in that region also include attractive features as well as some challenging routes.