The Colored Canyon – Sinai’s Painted Passage and the Bedouin Who Walk It
Not far from the laid-back coastal village of Nuweiba, the desert opens into a hidden wonder: the Colored Canyon. Its twisting sandstone walls shimmer in layers of red, gold, violet, and amber — a natural cathedral carved over millennia by wind and water. But to the Bedouin tribes of Sinai, this canyon is more than geology. It is a passage of memory, where stories and survival are written in stone. A Natural Masterpiece Stretching about 800 meters long and rising up to 40 meters high, the canyon is the result of ancient floods and erosion that carved through limestone and [...]