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Suez Slideshow
Top Hotels in Suez
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Ramada El Sokhna Suez
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Bonita Suez
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Best Western Marina Wadi El Dome Resort Suez
2 reviews -
Red Sea Hotel Suez
5 reviews
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Summer Palace Hotel Suez
4 reviews
Suez
Travel Blogs from Suez, Egypt
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Marine Train spotting
This is a top pick! · Port Tawfiq, Suez, Egypt · GMT +2hrs 'a dismal but profitable ditch' - Joseph Conrad on the Suez Canal Marine train spotting The fact that Suez is about half way between Alexandria, where we just came from, and Dahab in Sinai, where we're ...
Watching the boats go by
This is a top pick! ... and the mosque every couple of minutes. It was very strange to see. Even stranger was the view when we took a bus from Suez into the Sinai. We crossed under the canal in a tunnel and looked back to see a line of cargo ships floating through ...
Stranded in Suez
You've probably heard of the Suez canal? Well that is the tourist attraction of Suez, and its the only one. The suburbs out along the canal itself (Port Tawfiq) consist of seemingly endless rows of identical newish concrete apartment blocks with a few ...
I can almost see them now...
... I can see why the south coast of Sinai is not so popular what with the oil wells / refineries and constant flow of ships into the Suez Canal. However none of that phased me so much as the wind. Boy was it windy, and in the wrong direction. All hopes of ...
Port Said (from the starboard side!!)
... canal, it looked anything but man-made. It could have easily passed for a natural waterway. Not all ships can pass through the Suez Canal. Some super tankers are simply too large to pass through due to a limit of vessels with a 53ft draft. Although this ...
The SS Thistlegorm - surprisingly hardcore
Taxi from Dahab to Sharm at 11:00pm, then grab whatever sleep you can on an old nylon sleeping bag on the deck of the dive boat at dock. The engines start rumbling at 5am and you get underway, and soon the boat is pitching up and down in the waves. The ...
Bus pour Sharm
Lever matinal pour allre prendre le bus au terminal turgonam. Cest un tres beau hub de bus tout neuf, un peu comme celui de la defence a Paris. Nous prennons place a linterieur dun joli bus climatise, devant nous 7h de desert nous ...
at the Suez
... vessels passing through the canal. Quite amazing. Start: Sea Star Beau Rivage, Hurghada, EGYPT. 12:00 End: Red Sea Hotel, Suez, EGYPT. 17:00 Distance Traveled: 375 km Road Conditions: good Average Speed: 77.6 km/hr Max Speed: 100 km/hr ...
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
Suez n'a pas été pour moi une ville trés interessante, mais je n'aime pas trop les villes .. lol. Malgrés quelques rencontres sympas et l autorisation de prendre une photo du canal .. pas terrible, il s'agit juste d'une ville de ...
Sinai Sights
... small settlements and oil terminals. By early evening, a southbound convoy was passing us and we anchored off the port of Suez at sunset among a motley collection of ships, as the local fishing fleet headed south. As today is the anniversary of ...
Barging on the Suez
... error...we took this opportunity to get an oil and filters change, which ended up being quite cheap and surprisingly quick. The Suez canal was impressive, we viewed the canal from the town of Suez, right near the southern entrance. PC, I think barging ...
Visit to Cairo and the Giza Pyramids
... . Our journey back to the ship later in the afternoon was to Port Said at the other end of the Suez Canal following Arcadia's transit throughout the day. We interupted this journey with a visit to the Papyrus Institute where we witnessed ...
Ab durch die Mitte
... fallen direkt wieder ins Bett, und stehen viel zu spät auf. Als wir raus in die Kälte gehen sind wir gerade mitten im Suez Kanal, auf jeder Seite trennen uns nur ein paar Meter vom Ufer. Wir fahren durch ganze Städte mitten hindurch. Leider ist es ...
Suez Canal (Scenic Cruising)
... when the Suez Canal was opened for traffic. It is a sea level canal built by a French Company but currently owned by Egypt. The canal was nationalized by the Egyptian Government in 1956 and after a military action by Israel, France and Great Britain; it ...
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! ...
"What do you mean the ferry's not working?"
... at 10:00 am. From there, we should be able to catch one of 3 or 4 late afternoon buses to Sharm. LP also indicated that Egypt Air flew daily from Hurghada to Sharm El Sheikh. At least we had two options available to us to get to Sharm. Around 8:00 ...
Tranisting The Suez Canal
... The canal is heavily guarded, but it's not clear whether they are worried about invasion from the Sinai, or protecting the shipping from Egypt-based terrorists. In any event, the Sinai side of the canal was empty desert from one end to the other, while ...
One Year In - Suez Anniversary
... small settlements and oil terminals. By early evening, a southbound convoy was passing us and we anchored off the port of Suez at sunset among a motley collection of ships, as the local fishing fleet headed south. As today is the anniversary of ...
Pharaohs, Pyramids and Pollution
... and there is no one to divert your attention from the magnificent ancient constructions. We made it into Port Tawfiq, the southern end of the Suez Canal, after nightfall and easily found the hotel. It has the Wifi connection that enables you to read ...
Suez Canal
... the new bridge. We took 10 hours approx to pass through the canal into the Mediterraniean. (The canal is Egypt's 3rd biggest earner latest published figures $3.246 billion in revenue). Temperatures have dropped considerably as we entered the ...
Canal
Suez, Egypt, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 – Day 90 From, Aqaba, Jordan, we sailed southwest through the Gulf of Aqaba and into ...
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