Suez, Egypt Travel Blogs

Marine Train spotting
Apr 17, 2008 (3 photos)

· 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 headed ...

Watching the boats go by
Jun 21, 2008 (6 photos)

... 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 ...

Egypt!
Oct 29, 2006

Didn't stay on the ship for the Suez-- see Alexandria post.

I can almost see them now...
Nov 30, 2006 (1 photos)

... 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 ...

The SS Thistlegorm - surprisingly hardcore
Sep 4, 2008 (3 photos)

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 ...

Pharaohs, Pyramids and Pollution
Dec 28, 2008 (3 photos)

... 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 this.

Bus pour Sharm
Aug 24, 2008

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 attendent.

at the Suez
Jul 4, 2008 (9 photos)

... 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 ...

Desert Canal
Dec 6, 2008 (7 photos)

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Sinai Sights
Dec 5, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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 my ...

Suez Canal (Scenic Cruising)
Apr 15, 2009 (6 photos)

... a desert; quiet and devoid of traffic. As the canal is long, it provides a natural barrier to movement from the mainland of Egypt into the Sinai Peninsula. There are only a few ferries across the canal and one large suspension bridge. But is a desert area, ...

Suez Canal
Mar 26, 2008

Transiting through the Suez Canal on Mar 26

Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt
Apr 6, 2007

Land cruise to the pyramids!

Suez
Apr 21, 2008

Also just a map pin.

Suez Canal
Sep 6, 2009 (1 photos)

... 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!

Tranisting The Suez Canal
Apr 7, 2006 (10 photos)

... 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 the ...

"What do you mean the ferry's not working?"
Aug 26, 2005

... 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 am ...

One Year In - Suez Anniversary
Dec 5, 2008

... 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 my ...

Suez Canal
May 29, 2007

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Suez Canal
Apr 9, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

suez
Jan 16, 2009 (1 photos)

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Suez Canal for pics!
Mar 8, 2006 (5 photos)

Crossed over into Asia...Morgan and Maevyn's first time there!

Suez, Egypt
Mar 11, 2001

Docked here for the day before we went through the Suez Canal on our way to Port Said, Egypt.

Buses and white faces and police
Oct 4, 2005

... smuggler caught red handed', or alternative 'stupid tourist thought they could get away with exporting illegal goods out of Egypt', (potentially with a suitable fee attached), frogmarch the entire contents off the bus, line up all the luggage, go straight ...

Dahab – Suez – Cairo
Nov 4, 2004 (2 photos)

... , we were the wrong nationalities. Also of note along the way back across the Sinai Peninsula were various memorials celebrating Egypt’s victory over Israel in their most recent skirmish for this territory in the 1980’s. But this doesn’t ...

Suez
Aug 24, 2004

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The Bus Odyssey - Escaping Cairo
Oct 31, 2006

... with various things best left unsaid... apologies to anybody who just ate!), I am hardly a sissy about a stinky dunny, but those in Egypt often made me gag. Since there is no doubt a shortage of water, most don't flush and I suspect half are never cleaned. ...

Amazing canal
Sep 13, 2009

We apparently headed into the Suez Canal at 1am today but we were fast asleep. When we woke at 5am it was light and we had gone a fair way through the canal. They form a convoy with so many ships and they all head south (or north) until they get to the ...

A small cog in the workings of the might Suez
Oct 20, 2008

... .  At any rate it was a change of scene.   Mon, 10/21 Port Said is the entrance to the Suez Canal.  It's a pleasant town, way less congested than Alexandria, way less polluted.  There was a Timberland shop, which made ...