Maps & Lists

Etham → Head of the Gulf of Aquba
The Red Sea crossing was over what’s now dry land but back then flooded.
The water was quite shallow and the dividing of the sea was trough natural means (wind)

Yellow

Etham → Nuweiba Beach
This route goes mainly trough streambeds of wadis (rivers)
This Red Sea crossing goes trough 850 meter (half mile) deep water.
This was a old fashion miracle or if there are natural explanations they are presently totally unknown.

2. Etham and Shur regions

Yellow: Etham

Red: Shur

3. Red Sea to Mt. Sinai

Colors explained (alphabetical order)

Blue: Wadi al-Abyad
Brown: Wadi Tiryam and Wadi Sadr
Green: Butainah Corridor. An other major route.
Orange: I don’t know the name of this route.
Pink: The route Moses took uphill.
Purple: Wadi Ythm Pass, which connects the two north-south routes.
Red: Part of an ancient major route, that’s currently known as the Hajj route to Mecca and extensively traveled by muslim pilgrims.
White: A route along the shore connecting to the Hajj Route.
White rectangle: The Red Sea crossing.
Yellow: Wadi al-Abyad and Wadi Zaylah (Connects to another major route not drawn on this map).

The green houses are villages

Possible (and likely) routes to Jabal Maqla:

Follow all the white circles - Nuweiba Beach crossing
From the tip of the gulf to the third white circle. Then follow the remaining white circles - Tip of the gulf crossing.

Possible (and likely) route to volcano Bedr