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Travel Blogs from Suez Canal, Egypt
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Day 53 Sea Day Going Through the Suez Canal
... . It was an amazing voyage as one side was all desert, the other side tended to be more lush with buildings. Egypt still has many unfinished buildings as we passed by. There was one beautiful building with several domes on it by the Olympic ...
At last
The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, was built across 100 miles on the Isthmus of Suez. It separates the Africa mainland part of Egypt and the Asian sinai Penninsula belonging to Egypt. About 2:15 am we saw 3 tugs and a pilot boat moving us into position to ...
Suez Canal (Scenic Cruising)
... contemplated the building of a canal that would link Europe with the eastern continent of Asia. Until the opening of the Suez Canal, merchandise was offloaded in the Mediterranean and carried overland to the Red Sea. There it would again be placed on a ...
Suez Canal
... the army and whatever. According to this regulations, I publish as a Tourist - not Terrorist - the only legal photograph of the area. By the way: By crossing the Suez Canal Bridge I have officially left the African Continent to Asia. So hello again, Asia! ...
Travelling through the Suez Canal
This was fascinating! It took 9 hours to get through the Suez Canal. Ships have to wait to enter the canal and then travel in convoy. Most of the canal is so narrow that travel is one-way. There are 2 areas ...
Suez Canal
... passed points of interest, Captain Opery made announcements to alert and inform us of the significance of the landmarks. The Suez Canal was trenched through Egypt, with no locks, just a long water corridor that connects the Red Sea to the south, to ...
From One Sea to Another
... spanned bridge in the world. Its stays open 99% of the time and only closes if a train comes by. Ferries cross the canal along the way taking mostly 18 wheelers across. They have a retired professor from Univ. of Florida on board who has studied and ...
Suez Canal
... up I ate the 2 remaining chocolate strawberries. Naughty but nice! The ship had entered the first part of the Suez Canal during the night and was waiting for the traffic to come through from the other direction before going through the second ...
Transitting the Suez Canal
... in the lake until the north bound traffic passed by. Then the ship can continue to proceed through the remainder of the canal, exiting around 6pm. Pilots are required for this transit, but they do not take control of the ship (as with the Panama ...
Suez Canal Transit
... boats, and in the wider parts dry-bulk ships. We didn't see any container or petroleum ships. There are no locks on the Suez Canal. Before noon we crossed Big Bitter Lake. At about 1:00 we reached Suez City and the entrance to the Red Sea via ...
Interesting ditch
... to the cruise director that the cruise ships should get together and hire some of the locals to set up a tent some where along the canal with belly dancers and a few guys on horses in their native garb as in the 1800's. They could ride along side the ship ...
Day 33
Today was a very exciting day as we transited the Suez Canal. We completed preparations & clearance at the outer anchorage at 1am & then joined the 2nd convoy - Northward at 6am. and commenced the transit.. It was interesting to see all the rice ...
Suez Canal Passage
Check out the video through the Canal. Pretty amazing ride. It's almost like we are inland in a very narrow pathway. ...
Transiting the Suez Canal
... 10:00 a.m., we enter Suez City and the actual opening to the Suez Canal. Our transit will take around 12 hours. The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. The 163 km (101 miles) canal was constructed in the 10-year period ...
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