Wadi Feiran

It is an intermittent stream and rises from the mountains around Saint Catherine's Monastery, at 2500 m above sea level.

It is one of the alleged sites of Rephidim, a station of the Exodus where Moses struck a rock caused it to spring water, allowing his people the Hebrews to drink.

[3] It empties into the Red Sea's Gulf of Suez 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Abu Zenima.

They may offer tea, coffee and, as recently as 2003, may have felt obligated to slaughter an animal for their guest(s).

For a time, a monk from Saint Catherine's also maintained a small church and farmstead at Wadi Feiran.