South Sinai mountains massif boasts some of the best all-year hiking routes in the world. Not only the typical natural beauty but a significant cultural heritage is unparalleled by any other area of the world. For serious hikers and rock climbers as well as hillwalkers (sometimes called easy wadis-ramblers), the territory is vast and AlKarm ecolodge is at the center of it.

AlKarm offers a fantastic lodging in the local style and yet with all the facilities modern man needs like bathrooms and toilets and a decent kitchen. It has no electricity and mobile phones don't have coverage there. What's more is that there are no roads close by and one either has to use 4x4s or hike from the nearest town (Katrina) to it. It's managed by local Bedouins whose forefathers have settled in the land thousands of years ago. The local tribe is named Jebaleya.

Manager is the amazing Jamil Atteya who not only is familiar with all the trails and forms names but is a walking encyclopedia of Bedouin-culture who doubles for a poet.