Suez Canal Port Said

... about the Egypt of today. Port Said is a modestly sized city that was founded in 1858 at the opening of the Suez Canal. This meant that Port Said was not an old city by Egyptian Standards. It is the main port before entering or exiting the Suez Canal on ...

... about the Egypt of today. Port Said is a modestly sized city that was founded in 1858 at the opening of the Suez Canal. This meant that Port Said was not an old city by Egyptian Standards. It is the main port before entering or exiting the Suez Canal on ...

Did you see us cruising through the Suez Canal? The length of the gulf is 195 miles & varies from 12-20 miles in width. The formal opening of the Canal was celebrated in Nov. 1869. The first ship to pass through the Canal carried the Empress of France. A ...

... town-center for whiling away the evening. None of these things were what made Ishmaelya hard to leave, however. The Suez Canal is one of Egypt's biggest industries, and, after the Aswan Dam, is one of the countries most vulnerable assets. For these ...

... entered Bitter Lake we had to wait awhile for the southbound convoy to enter the lake and free up the canal for our continued transit north. We arrived at Port Said on the Mediterranean at 4PM...a few hours less than the publicized average transit time. ...

... but with a chill wind, heralding a change in climate as we approached the Mediterranean Sea.  The journey to Port Said took around 11hours from Port Suez in the south As the day progressed we saw that, here and there, along the route, on the ...

... fish farms - OK do not eat fish in Egypt! This looked very bad. You gotta be crazy to eat out of there. Port Said is the entrance to the Suez Canal. We drove along the Canal. We could see huge tankers in the canal, but it looked like they were on land. ...

... large guns, seemed very friendly taking photos of the ship and waving back at the passengers on deck as we went by, although some of them waved their guns in the air, which was a bit worrying. As night fell we reached Port Said and the Mediterranean ...

... areas as well.  They have very green areas dotted in amongst the sand but they are not oasis. They are watered from the Suez canal which is only about 50meters from the highway going into Cairo.  They grow mangoes by the millions and there are ...

... ships behind us. Egypt on our port side and Egypt and the Sinai Desert on our starboard side. Egypt owns the Suez canal and controls it rigidly. A warship proceeded our entry into the canal. Along its banks are soldiers every 200 hundred ...