If you’re a woman who finds God in the wilderness, who feels the call of Egypt not through temples but through the sand, the stars, ancient mountain trails, and the Red Sea…and you are ready to reconnect with your deepest truth and awaken your spirit…then join us for a retreat where you will come away feeling free, deeply rooted, and fully alive.
Join us for eight days in the wild sacred heart of Sinai, where you will come away free, rooted, and fully alive.
The summit of Mount Sinai is ancient and silent beneath your feet. The stone here is warm from the sun, worn smooth by millions of pilgrims who came before you. The air is thin and still. Somewhere below, the Sinai desert stretches in every direction, bone-dry and achingly beautiful.
The path up was deliberate. Each step carried you higher, away from the noise of ordinary life and into something older and quieter than you have words for. And now you are here, at the place where the burning bush ignited, where a man once took off his sandals because he knew the ground was holy.
As the sun becomes lower in the sky, it turns the mountains gold and copper. You realize you are standing where Moses once stood. Watching the same sky go dark above the oldest sacred landscape on Earth.
Someone in your circle exhales, long and complete. Another has tears on her cheeks, though she is smiling. You stand still, taking in everything around you. This is holy ground. Ancient ground. There is reverence here, and love, and something that has no name in any modern language.
You watch the last light leave the sky. You do not want to move. And you think: this is why I came.
Here, you are not a tourist. You are a pilgrim, a seeker, a woman who answered when the wild called. And the Sinai has been waiting for you to remember that.
This Passage Was Made For You If…
I hear the calling. I am ready. I’m in.
✦ You feel spiritually alive in nature but rarely give yourself permission to make it a true pilgrimage rather than just a vacation.
On this journey, you are not simply going outside. You are walking ground that has been considered holy for thousands of years, where mystics and pilgrims and desert dwellers have come to be changed. Through Bedouin camp nights, Red Sea ceremony, and sacred time in some of the most ancient landscapes on Earth, something shifts. You stop waiting for permission. You return home knowing that nature is not just where you relax but where the Divine has always been waiting for you.
✦ You have felt Egypt calling you, but not through the temples. Through the sand, the stars, the ancient mountain trails, and the Red Sea.
On this passage through the Sinai, through camel trails, star-filled desert nights, and the elemental power of the oldest sacred landscape on Earth, you will finally answer the specific call that has been pulling at you, so you can return home knowing you met Egypt on your own terms and she met you right back.
✦ You are craving sacred adventure that lives in your body, not just your mind.
You are done with reverence as a spectator sport. On this journey, the sacred is something you move through, climb, swim in, and sleep under. You return home not just inspired but physically changed, carrying the Sinai in your cells.
✦ You sense the Divine speaks to you most clearly through fire, water, stone, and sky, but your daily life rarely creates space for that kind of communion.
On this pilgrimage, you will not just be near the elements. You will be in conversation with them. The desert will speak. The sea will answer. The mountain will hold you in a silence so complete that you finally hear what has been trying to reach you for years. You return home with that channel wide open, knowing how to find it again.
✦ You are hungry for a sisterhood that feels like a campfire rather than a ceremony, real, warm, unscripted, and deeply nourishing.
On this intimate journey, through shared meals cooked over Bedouin fire, long starlit conversations in the desert, and the particular bond that forms when women move through wild places together, you will find your people in the most natural and unforced way possible, so you can return home held by a sisterhood that was forged in something real.
WHERE YOU WILL SLEEP, DREAM, AND AWAKEN
Wild Camp at Serabit el-Khadim
Your first night in the Sinai, you will sleep in your own personal igloo tent at the foot of the mountain that holds the Temple of Hathor. There are no showers. There are no toilets. There is no Wi-Fi. What there is: a sleeping bag, a mattress, a pillow, a sky so full of stars it will make you question every ceiling you have ever slept under, and a silence so complete you will feel it in your bones.
This is not glamping. This is the real thing. And it will be one of the most extraordinary nights of your life.
Guesthouse at Saint Catherine’s
The following nights at Saint Catherine’s will be spent in a simple, clean guesthouse steps from the monastery walls.
You will wake to the bells and the mountain light and feel the accumulated prayer of centuries in the air around you.
Bedouin Rock House at Saint Catherine's
On your third night, you will sleep in a rock mountain house hosted by a local Bedouin family. The space is small and you will be close together, which, after a night on the mountain and a sunrise at the Burning Bush, will feel exactly right. There is a toilet. There is no shower. There is something better: the particular warmth of being welcomed into a home that has existed in this landscape for generations.
Nour Boutique Hotel, Dahab
And then Dahab. Four nights at Nour Boutique Hotel, a stunning boutique property steps from the Red Sea and right in the heart of Dahab's vibrant waterfront. After the desert, the mountain, and the Bedouin rock house, you have more than earned a beautiful bed, a pool, and a long hot shower. Walk out the front door and the restaurants, cafes, and luminous evening energy of Dahab are right there waiting for you. Rest here fully. The wildest night of the journey still awaits.
This journey is calling you. Are you ready to answer?
THE FOOD OF THE DESERT
There is a particular kind of nourishment that only comes from food cooked over fire by someone whose family has been cooking this way for generations. On this journey, you will know that nourishment intimately.
Bedouin cuisine is slow, smoky, generous, and deeply satisfying. Flatbreads, spiced meats, roasted vegetables, and sweet tea that keeps coming long after you think you are finished.
At the wild camp, lunch will be a traditional Bedouin spread eaten in the shade after your morning hike to the Temple of Hathor. At Ras Abu Gallum, your Bedouin chef will cook dinner over an open fire on the beach beneath a sky full of stars. And in Dahab, fresh seafood, mezze, and the warm, generous hospitality for which this Red Sea town is beloved. All meals are included throughout your journey, including daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Dietary needs will be accommodated with advance notice. Please let us know what you need, and your table will be set for you.
Day 1 (Thursday, April 10): Cairo to Sinai
You depart Cairo in the early morning for a four-hour drive across the Sinai Peninsula. A traditional Bedouin lunch welcomes you upon arrival at Serabit el-Khadim. You will spend the afternoon at the foot of the mountain where the ancient Temple of Hathor waits. The evening closes with your first fire and Bedouin dinner beneath a canopy of stars.
Day 2 (Friday, April 11): Temple of Hathor and Drive to Saint Catherine's
You rise at dawn and hike the mountain as the light comes up over the Sinai. At the Temple of Hathor, you will receive ceremony and transmission at one of the most ancient and least visited Hathor temples in existence. After brunch, you drive three hours to Saint Catherine's for a late lunch and an evening to rest.
Day 3 (Saturday, April 12): Saint Catherine's Monastery and Mount Sinai
The morning brings you to Saint Catherine's Monastery, the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery on Earth, and home to the site of the Burning Bush of Moses. In the afternoon, you begin the hike up Mount Sinai, arriving at the summit in time to receive one of the most extraordinary sunsets on Earth. Dinner follows at the Bedouin rock house.
Day 4 (Sunday, April 13): Dahab
After breakfast, you depart for Dahab, the beloved bohemian Red Sea town. You check into Nour Boutique Hotel in the afternoon and the rest of the day is yours completely. Swim. Rest. Walk the waterfront. Let the desert settle in your bones before the sea takes over.
Day 5 (Monday, April 14): Blue Hole Snorkeling and Camel Ride
A full and glorious day of receiving in Dahab. Snorkel the Blue Hole, one of the most breathtaking underwater sites in the world. A camel ride along the beach rounds out a day that moves at exactly the right pace, adventurous, restorative, and completely yours.
Day 6 (Tuesday, April 15): Ras Abu Gallum Bedouin Camp
This is the day the journey goes truly wild. You ride by camel through the Sinai coastal landscape to Ras Abu Gallum, a protected nature reserve accessible only by camel or on foot. You will receive a beach ceremony and closing ritual at the sea's edge. The evening closes with sound healing under the stars and dinner cooked over an open Bedouin fire.
Day 7 (Wednesday, April 16): Return to Dahab and Farewell
After a morning swim in the Red Sea, you ride the camels back to Dahab. The afternoon is free for final shopping, resting, or simply sitting with the sea. Your farewell dinner is a celebration of everything you have received, a closing, and a sending forth.
Day 8 (Thursday, April 17): Departure
After breakfast, you depart Dahab for Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport (SSH) for your flights home, or onward to wherever the next chapter calls you.
* Itinerary is subject to change.
IS THIS YOUR CALLING?
This is not a sightseeing trip or a wellness retreat. It is a pilgrimage into some of the most ancient and sacred wilderness on Earth. It will ask something of you physically and spiritually, and it will give back far more than it asks.
Please note that this is an active pilgrimage requiring good physical health, as it includes hiking, camel riding, and snorkeling.
Nature is my church. And she is waiting for you.
A MESSAGE FROM MY GUIDES
As I prepared to open enrollment for this pilgrimage, I sat down to channel and received this transmission. I share it here exactly as it came through, because I believe it was meant for you as much as it was meant for me.
— Danielle
“For you, it will be very much like the difference between spending two weeks in the hustle and bustle of New York City, with deadlines and a job to do, versus spending a week in the rural countryside, where there is very little to do but much to synthesize, to allow to settle, to feast the eyes on, and to incorporate. It will feel like you are in a new land completely, with much more spaciousness, much less of an agenda, and the ability to synthesize what you are meant to synthesize, to acknowledge and understand what you are meant to acknowledge and understand.
For some, this will mean changing course in their lives, having a new kind of clarity. You will notice a slowing down of time, the ability to live simply and in the present, to allow illusion to strip away. Little to no makeup. Baths that may be few and far between. No vanity is needed in the desert. It is both a place of humility and liberation. For when you are liberated from your identities and limiting thoughts, such weight is lifted from your shoulders. You will hear the voice of your higher self, the voice of God, much more clearly and unmistakably. There will be nothing to hide behind.
In Dahab, you will receive a small glimpse of this very sacred way of life that the Bedouins follow. Simple foods, simple living. Expanded third eye. Expanded crown. These are the treasures they receive for choosing such an elegant way of life. It is here where you will begin to understand the desert mystics, their ways, and the beauty of what the desert holds.
It won’t always be comfortable. It won’t always be easy. It won’t always be fun. But it will always be a wonderful teacher, and it will always reflect back to you truth rather than a mirage. In your modern world, this is a tremendous gift and benefit.
In Saint Catherine’s, you will feel something different once again, which is an elevation of spirit, as if you were on a literal mountaintop where you were that much closer to God, to the All, to that frequency that is truth and love and joy. You will feel quite tangibly how spaces are elevated by prayer and devotion, and by love, by truth. You will feel connected so intimately to all who have come before you, and to all who will come after you. Every seeker, every pilgrim, every devout follower of the way.
Ritual will mean so much to you here. And you will truly see how much ritual elevates your space, your understanding, your soul’s landscape. You will crave silence and contemplation, and in that silence and contemplation, partnered with the higher frequency that you are literally standing in, you will receive so much.
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WHAT YOU WILL CARRY HOME
Eight days in the wild heart of Sinai will change something in you that does not change back. Here is what you will return home carrying:
The unshakeable knowing that you answered the call, showed up fully, and were met
A new relationship with silence, with the elements, and with the voice of the Divine that speaks through both
A body that remembers what it feels like to be fully, physically, gloriously alive
Release. Real, elemental, fire-and-sea release of what you have been carrying too long
A sisterhood of women who know you at your most unguarded and love you there
The clarity you have been circling for months or years, finally landed and yours to keep
A relationship with the wild Hathor, the Lady of the Wilderness, alive in your bones
The extraordinary as a daily practice, not a once-in-a-lifetime event
The Sinai is calling. She is ready for you now.
THIS JOURNEY IS TOTALLY FOR YOU IF...
You find the Divine most easily in wild, open, elemental places
You have felt Egypt calling you through the desert and the stars, not just the temples
You feel the particular pull of a landscape that three of the world’s great spiritual traditions have called holy for thousands of years, and you want to experience that frequency for yourself, whatever your path
You are ready for sacred adventure that lives in your body, not just your mind
You want to stand in places tourists never find, raw, ancient, and holy
You are craving a sisterhood that feels like a campfire, honest and warm and real
You have been living for everyone else, and you are ready to choose yourself
You want to release something heavy in one of the most powerful landscapes on Earth
You are drawn to the wild sacred, and you are done waiting for permission to answer
THIS JOURNEY IS NOT FOR YOU IF...
You require five-star luxury accommodations every single night
You are not comfortable sleeping outdoors or in simple guesthouses
You are not in good physical health or are unable to hike, snorkel, or ride camels
You are looking for a temple-based mystery school immersion (that is Part 1, Rise, Priestess, Rise)
You need a fully controlled, predictable environment at all times
EARLY BIRD BONUSES
The women who commit first receive the most. Here is what is waiting for you.
✦ Personal Channeled Message (recorded)
Before you step foot in the Sinai, I will channel and record a personal message just for you: why the desert is calling you at this specific moment in your life, which energies and guides are stepping forward to accompany you on this journey, and what is ready to be released and activated within you. This recording is yours to return to again and again in the weeks before departure, letting the transmission land more deeply each time you listen.
✦ Sinai Sacred Preparation Guide
An exclusive channeled guide created to prepare your energy, your body, and your soul for the Sinai landscape. Includes pre-trip elemental practices, dreamwork guidance for the desert, and practical preparation for each site you will visit. Also includes a channeled transmission from Hathor as the Lady of the Wilderness.
✦ Channeled Meditation Journey to Meet Your Deity
Once you receive your personal channeled message and discover which guide has stepped forward to walk with you, you will receive a custom guided meditation journey created specifically for you to meet that deity directly. This is not a generic visualization. It is a personal energetic introduction, a first meeting between you and the divine intelligence who will be your companion and guide throughout the pilgrimage. By the time your feet touch Sinai soil, you will not be arriving as a stranger. You will be arriving as someone who has already crossed the threshold.
What Is Included
8 days and 7 nights accommodation, including wild camp at Serabit el-Khadim, guesthouse and Bedouin rock house at Saint Catherine's, Nour Boutique Hotel in Dahab, and Bedouin camp at Ras Abu Gallum
All meals throughout the journey, including daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner
All in-country transportation, including the four-hour drive from Cairo to Sinai, all local transfers, and departure transfer to Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport (SSH)
Camel ride on the beach
Snorkeling at the Blue Hole in Dahab
Guided hike to the Temple of Hathor at Serabit el-Khadim
Visit to Saint Catherine’s Monastery, including the site of the Burning Bush
Sunset hike up Mount Sinai
Bedouin fire dinners and camp experiences
Beach ceremony and closing ritual on the Red Sea
Daily transmissions, ceremony, and sacred facilitation throughout
All site admission fees
What is NOT Included
International airfare to and from Egypt (you will depart from Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, SSH)
Egypt visa (purchased upon arrival at Cairo Airport — our team will assist you through this process — current price is approximately $25 USD)
Travel insurance (required for participation)
Personal purchases, souvenirs, and shopping
Gratuities for your guides, drivers, and Bedouin hosts (suggested $220 USD, collected on Day 1 so we handle all tipping on your behalf, subject to change and participants will be notified of the final amount 90 days prior to departure)
Personal expenditures such as spa treatments, shopping, or additional excursions in Dahab
Ready to reserve your place? Visit the registration page to secure your spot.
Our Team
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I have been a channel and spiritual teacher for over twenty years. But it is in the wilderness that I am most myself. Nature has always been my church, the place where the noise falls away and the Divine speaks clearly and without intermediary. It was that calling that led me to the Sinai, to the raw rock face of the Hathor temple, to the silence of the desert at dawn, to the Red Sea at sunset.
As an Angelic Reiki Master Teacher, Initiated Priestess, and Divine Channel, I have led sacred site pilgrimages, international retreats, and mystery school teachings across the world. I created this Sinai passage because I wanted to offer what the wilderness gave me to a small circle of women who feel the same pull. Not a performance of the sacred. The thing itself.
I lead thresholds, not tours. And it is my greatest honor to hold the door open while you walk through yours.
Danielle Artigo
Spiritual Guide and Channel
Mahmoud Marai
Since 1997, the desert has been my home, my teacher, and my calling. More than 350,000 kilometers of desert driving across the Western Desert of Egypt, the Great Sahara, and the Empty Quarter of Arabia have shaped everything I know about this land and about myself. Among the journeys that defined me most was traveling the elusive ancient forty-day road from Darfour in Sudan to Aswan in Egypt, one of the last true wilderness passages remaining on this earth. This work is not a career for me. It never has been.
Hidden in the heart of the Sahara, there are places that do not appear on any map. Some of them, I have had the privilege of finding. Prehistoric sites, ancient hieroglyphic inscriptions, evidence of civilizations swallowed by sand and time. Documenting these discoveries and publishing them in international peer-reviewed journals has been one of the great honors of my life. Not because of the recognition, but because these places deserve to be known. They have been waiting a long time.
Out of a desire to share what the desert had given me, Nomadi-KA Tours was born. The KA in the name is not by accident. In the Ancient Egyptian language, KA means spirit, life force, the animating power that makes us who we are. That is what these journeys are designed to nourish. They are not tours. They are pilgrimages into space and time, purposed for self-growth and for feeding the soul.
Having walked this land with Danielle and her pilgrims in 2025, I know what these sacred places are capable of when the right people are willing to meet them honestly. Everything I have learned in nearly thirty years of exploring Egypt, its hidden frequencies, its ancient intelligence, its capacity to crack a person open and put them back together differently, I bring to this journey with great care and with great love for this land.
Egyptian Desert Explorer and Guide
FAQ
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Absolutely. This journey is a complete and fully independent experience. You do not need to have done Part 1 or any prior Egypt trip to join this passage. If you feel the call of the Sinai wilderness, that is all the qualification you need.
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Part 1, Rise, Priestess, Rise, is a temple-based mystery school immersion in Cairo, Aswan, the Nile, and Luxor. It is ceremonial, Egyptologist-guided, and focused on the Egyptian Neteru and initiatory work in the ancient temples. Part 2 is elemental, wild, and embodied. It is desert, mountain, sea, and fire. The two journeys are complementary halves of one complete Egypt, but each stands fully on its own.
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Good physical health is required for this journey. You will be hiking on uneven and sometimes steep terrain, riding camels, and snorkeling in the Red Sea. You do not need to be an athlete, but you must be in good general health and comfortable with sustained physical activity outdoors. If you have any health concerns or physical limitations, please reach out before registering.
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Accommodations range from a simple Ecolodge and guesthouse in the Sinai interior to a five-star hotel in Dahab and an open-air Bedouin camp at Ras Abu Gallum. This is not a luxury retreat every night, and that is intentional. If you require five-star accommodations throughout, this may not be the right journey for you.
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The areas we are visiting, including Dahab, Saint Catherine’s, and the southern Sinai coast, are well-established travel destinations with a long history of welcoming international visitors. Mahmoud has extensive experience in this region and will be with us throughout. We will stay current with any travel advisories and communicate with participants well in advance of departure.
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You will fly into Cairo International Airport (CAI) on or before Thursday, April 10, 2027. Departure is from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport (SSH) on Thursday, April 17, 2027. Please plan for these two separate airports when booking your flights.
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You will fly into Cairo International Airport (CAI) on or before Thursday, April 10, 2027. Departure is from Sharm el-Sheikh Airport (SSH) on Thursday, April 17, 2027. Please plan for these two separate airports when booking your flights.
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Yes. Your visa will be purchased upon arrival at Cairo Airport. Our team will be on hand to assist you through this process. The current fee is approximately $25 USD.
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Yes. Travel insurance is required for participation. We recommend a comprehensive policy that covers trip cancellation, medical evacuation, and interruption.
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Yes. Please inform us of any dietary needs upon registration and we will ensure your meals are arranged accordingly. Bedouin cuisine is naturally abundant and can accommodate most needs with advance notice.
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Your $1,000 deposit is non-refundable. For cancellations received more than 90 days before departure, amounts paid beyond the deposit will be refunded minus processing fees. Cancellations within 90 days of departure are non-refundable. Travel insurance is required for participation and will protect your investment.
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Reach out to me directly. We will speak by phone first, and if it feels aligned for both of us, I will personally extend your invitation.
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Still have a question?
Reach out to me directly. I would love to hear from you and help you decide if this journey is your next yes.
“Dear wild one,
I have been drawn to wild places my entire life.
Long before I ever walked into an Egyptian temple, long before the Neteru found me and the Ascended Masters began to speak, there was this. The pull of open sky. The way a forest or a desert or a stretch of coastline could do in five minutes what months of inner work sometimes could not. Natural spaces have always been portals for me. They are where I feel most connected to God, to my ancestors, to the heavenly realm, and at the same time most connected to the earth, to animals, to trees, to the elements, to the quiet intelligence that runs through all living things.
In nature, my nervous system finally exhales. My senses come alive. My thoughts slow down until there is space between them, and in that space I hear things. Wisdom. Clarity. The voice I cannot always access when the world is loud. Anxiety lifts. Creativity returns. I feel healthier, more present, more myself. Stripped of distraction, I remember who I am.
This is why this pilgrimage exists.
If the first journey, Rise, Priestess Rise, is the temples and the initiations and the ancient mysteries held in stone, this one is something else entirely. Trip A begins in Cairo, fast and full and glorious, moving at the pace of a civilization that has been building for five thousand years. There is so much to receive and only so much time to receive it. It is extraordinary. And it is busy.
This journey is its opposite.
Into the Sacred Wild is slow. It is away from the crowds, away from the buffets and the blackout curtains and the comfortable beds that insulate us from the rawness of where we actually are. It is off the beaten path in the truest sense. And it is in that stripping away of our comforts, our distractions, our carefully constructed sense of who we are in our ordinary lives, that something extraordinary becomes possible.
Without the buffer of modern convenience between you and the land, you begin to feel the land. You begin to hear it. You begin to understand why mystics and prophets and desert mothers and fathers have been coming to this particular wilderness for thousands of years, not in spite of its austerity but because of it.
This is a journey for a specific kind of woman. She knows who she is. She has felt the pull of the wild her whole life. She does not need to be convinced that sleeping under the stars at the foot of Hathor's mountain or sitting in silence on the summit where Moses stood will change her. She already knows it will.
That is why this journey is by invitation only. Not because it is exclusive, but because it is intimate. The Sinai does not call everyone. But if she is calling you, that call is unmistakable.
You already know if this is yours.
With so much love, Danielle
A NOTE FROM DANIELLE
REGISTRATION AND CANCELLATION POLICY
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REGISTRATION AND CANCELLATION POLICY *
To reserve your place on this pilgrimage, a non-refundable deposit of $1,000 is due at registration, following our initial phone conversation. Your remaining balance is paid according to the payment plan outlined on the registration page.
Rooming/Accommodations:
All accommodations are based on double occupancy where applicable. The Bedouin camp at Ras Abu Gallum is an open-air experience. If you have any questions about rooming arrangements, please reach out before applying.
Cancellation Policy:
Your $1,000 deposit is non-refundable under any circumstances. Deposits are refundable in full only in the event that we cancel the trip due to minimum enrollment not being met. Any cancellation made before November 28, 2026, will result in a loss of 50% of the total trip fees paid to date, minus the non-refundable deposit. Any cancellation made on or after November 28, 2026, will result in a total loss of all funds paid thus far. Travel insurance is required for participation and will protect your investment. We suggest a comprehensive policy covering trip cancellation, medical evacuation, and trip interruption.
We reserve the right to cancel this pilgrimage if the minimum enrollment of 4 participants is not met. In that event, all payments, including your deposit, will be refunded in full.
INTO THE SACRED WILD | A Sinai Pilgrimage
Egypt | April 10 – 17, 2027 | Maximum 8 Participants
Enrollment is by invitation only.
Visit the registration page to secure your place.