#bedwi

  1) Umm Yasser, a female tour guide from the Hamada tribe, listens as her fellow guide Umm Soliman plays the flute near Wadi Sahu in south Sinai. Bedouin women almost never work outside the home, and even more rarely interact with outsiders

  2) Tourists look at the view on a mountain trek led by the Bedouin women. They are walking part of the Sinai Trail, a unique project founded in 2015 by local Bedouin tribes

  3) Umm Yasser offers tea to female tourists and Bedouin from the Hamada tribe, at her home in Wadi Sahu

  4) The Sinai Trail project has been successful in bringing income to the tribes, who often complain of being left out of the major tourism development of the south Sinai, home to beach resorts and desert safaris

  5) The trail is 340 miles (550km) long and runs through the peninsula’s remote mountains and the lands of eight different tribes, all of whom contribute guides