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Top Hotels in Port Said
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Helnan Port Said Hotel
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Resta Port Said
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Holiday Hotel Port Said
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New Regent Hotel Port Said
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Palace Hotel Port Said
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Grand Albatros Hotel Port Said
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Port Said
Travel Blogs from Port Said, Egypt
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Cairo (Port Said), Egypt
... very well. As the bus pulled out from the crowded narrow street by our dock side, she began telling us 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 ...
Day 75 - Nothing Sweet About Those Chariots
... three-day old bread but you need the lows to define the highs. I turned north at Isamalia and headed along the canal towards Port Said. I was racing the ships that were making their way towards the Med on the canal. It is a strange sight ...
Port Said, Ismailiya, and Suez
... was the best fish I have ever had and the meals of fish we had were consistently good for our entire trip. We took the bus from Port Said through Ismailiya, where we stopped for two hours, and then on to Suez. We had a gorgeous room in Suez that was on ...
Port Said, Egypt
... very well. As the bus pulled out from the crowded narrow street by our dock side, she began telling us 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 ...
Port Said-Gateway to the East
... clear the Canal & reopen it. All along the way, we saw Eyptian military armed with machine guns. Yesterday (Sun.4/6), we arrived in Port Said. We traveled by bus in an armed convoy to Cairo. Again, we saw many soldiers with machine guns. In fact, ...
I appear to be back in Dover
... owner that I was moving from the 'Hotel Delaposte' and he replied -But... Delaposte is clean! that I knew I'd found my place. Port Said offers good seafood, good air, and plenty of cafes where I could indulge, for the last times, Egypt's greatest ...
Port Said
... 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. ...
Port Said
... Jimmy James again for his final performance. He was excellent. Went to bed straight after at 11.45 pm. 14th Jan – Port Said, Ship arrived in port at approx. 6 a.m. I was going to get off just on the quayside but Amanda said ...
Suez Canal
... was pleasant and sunny 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 ...
Day 34
Today was spent at Port Said. Many people went on tour to Pyramids & Sphinx but we chose to stay on board. There were over 30 buses went on tour so we almost had the ship to ourselves. We went ashore to look at the markets and had to fight off the ...
Port stratégique, Strategic passage
Population: 600,000 Founded 1859, Capitale: Le Caire $ EG Pound Just passing through Port Said after Suez.. Apres Suez, c'est le Port Said, tous deux sans arrêt. ...
Dolphins cheer you up!
... 8217;t changed! Going through the canal tomorrow is one of the highlights of this trip. 17.45 hours local. We have dropped anchor off Port Said along with many other vessels and await the call. Sent by email from the ship and posted by the Old Sea Dog's ...
pirates!
... and zigzags to avoid the pirates. Some of the old soldiers on board are relishing the encounter. Weather colder than England - bah! In Port Said I just walked on the port side. Today w are in Sham el Sheik with mobarak but haven't been ashore yet. When ...
Pigeons
... also pointed out 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 ...
The Suez Canal
... 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 ...
Canal de Suez
Après cette brève visite d'Alexandrie nous prîmes la mer en direction de port Saïd où commence le canal de Suez long de 173 Km. Le parcours du canal vers Suez est assez monotone. La rive à babord (désert) se trouve en Asie et la rive à ...
Dirtiest place on earth
... from Port Said and we all had security guards carrying Uzi guns on our buses. The convoy wound its way through the streets of Port Said and all the intersections had been blocked by cops so we could go straight through. A very dirty town with rubbish ...
Suez canal and Beyond
... armed.The first 18 miles are man made, then you progress through the Bitter lakes and once again into a canal and river.Through Port Said and into the Mediterranean Sea. Monday 12th april we are now sailing on the Mediterranean sea the weather is a little ...
Port Said/Cairo
Today we docked in Port Said at the start of the Suez Canal. We had a familiar feeling as we had docked there just a few months ago when we were on the World Cruise. Today we will be going back into Cairo as we had done before. Earlier we had gone in to ...
Old & New Buildings & Miles of rubbish
12 Sept My Dad's 92nd birthday today I hope he has a good day. Up at 6am the 8 of us on our table are going together on this trip to the Pyramids, we all got on the same coach No6 at 7am the coach finely leaving the wharf at 8-10am while we ...
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