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This is a screenshot of what the Sinai Photo Archive used to look like. It was part of the Sinai Trekking and Safari website and, like the rest of the site, was available in five languages. 

As you can see, 27,396 photos were available at the time, all tagged by location and other important keywords. For example, if you searched the tags for “Mt. Sinai + camel + snow”, you would find all the photos taken there after a snowfall that also included a camel.

Perhaps more importantly, the archive was created as a supplement to the trekking and safari guidebook. Every location mentioned in the book, however small or little known, was tagged, so readers could get a visual impression of each place. 

Unfortunately, it is all gone. The website crashed in 2016, and all this work was lost. I still have the photos on my hard drives, but I will never attempt to rebuild the archive to the same extent. It was a huge amount of work, uploading more than 27,000 photos to the server and then tagging them. I simply do not have the will to do it again. At least the trekking and safari information was saved in a new Discover Sinai website, backed up on blogspot.com.

Starting today, however, a simplified version of the archive will be built. First, a page for each of the 50 numbered attractions will be added, along with different albums, then I will move on to the other 200+ locations. It will take a couple of years or more, depending on time I have, but the work is ongoing so check back time to time to see what's new. 

To see the locations, use the main navigation page, available in English, French, German, Hungarian, and Russian, and for other collections of photos see Albums.


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