Sinai Trail Urgent Message
An urgent message from Sinai-trail’s Bedouin founders, as experts of surviving in nature, yet they are afraid of the new climate changes.
The Sinai Trail is Egypt’s 1st long-distance hiking trail. It launched in 2015 as a 220km route, taking 12 days to complete, and involving three Bedouin tribes. The original trail ran from the Gulf of Aqaba to the top of Jebel Katherina – Egypt’s highest mountain – and was completed by hundreds of hikers from Egypt and around the world. It was voted the best new tourism project in the world at the BGTW Tourism Awards in 2016, in the film we gave the co-founders bedouins a chance to raise their voices about global climate change.
‘Nature won’t come to you. You must go to nature. And you must care about it. Caring about it means looking after every part of it. Never forget that plants & living things feel much more than you can imagine… ‘ Words of Faraj Mahmoud – a community leader of the Jebeleya tribe & one of the founders of the Sinai Trail.
Part of the work of the Sinai Trail is to underline the great value Bedouin knowledge of the natural world. We share this video to raise the profile of the Bedouin voice – which deserves to be heard as much as any voice – in the global dialogue about environmental challenges we face today.
