Misty vistas of Sinai - in pictures

A drive is underway to promote tourism in Egypt after visitor numbers tumbled in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic

Bedouin men ride camels in front of the monastery of St Catherine in Saint Catherine city in Egypt's South Sinai Governorate. Egypt has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and received only 10,000 tourists a day in the last quarter of 2020. EPA

Mar 28, 2021

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