Travel Wishlist: St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai

I guess Egypt isn't the best place for Western travelers at the moment, but I think it'd be super awesome to visit St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai.

Sunrise from Mt. Sinai. Wow, God.





Here's the Virgin and Child with angels and Sts. George and Theodore.

The monastery also has the oldest known icon of Christ Pantocrator.
Crap, people, you can even see a descendant of THE burning bush.





The Ladder of Divine Ascent
This painting is particularly significant to me on a symbolic level.


Some day. I will get there (that can be left ambiguous. Hopefully I will both visit the monastery and make it to heaven).


http://www.sacred-destinations.com/egypt/sinai-monastery