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Suez Canal, Egypt
... speed limit of 10 mph. It would be another hour until we crossed under the bridge. I would have loved to see that, but I was beat and it was time to call it a night and head to bed. Bed at 5:30.
It looks to be about four hours to the Bitter Lakes, so I set my alarm clock for 3.5 hours from now (9 a.m.) I’d like to see us pass some other vessels in the lakes.
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My overambitious goal of getting ...
In Sokhna
... bullets.
Touts, camel and horse ride operators descend on you as soon as you get off the tour bus. There are dozens of tour coaches coming and going all the time, and it is all quite overwhelming. A police presence is around the Pyramids but they really are quite ineffective. One cop tried to extract money from me for me agreeing, after his relentless persistence, to let him, with my camera, take a photograph of me in front of the pyramid. I ...
Sandstorms and Canals
... proceed on their way.
As we travelled along northward we could see that the right hand bank was dry and arid with sand dunes stretching as far as the eye could.- the Sinai Desert. Whilst on the left side there were occasional oases and farmland. These gradually increased in number until we reached Ismailya and the War Memorials. The city is a large sprawling affair but it doesn't quite butt up to the canal.However there are a number of ...
Port Said / Suez Canal
... thing today, all I could really see was that the canal is positively in two halves. The right hand (going south) is the developed side with towns, roads and infrastructure generally while the left hand side, even at night, was clearly not so urbanized. During daylight this was clearly the case and remained so along the whole canal's length. The Egyptian military is present throughout with a large airbase and many smaller garrisons along the right hand side. Even on the left - the ...
Port Said (from the starboard side!!)
... the name is just something as boring as the taste of the lake!! (I wish it were the 2nd reason. That would be so cool!!)
The Suez Canal is 100 miles long and was completed in 1869. I know I haven’t been keeping up with the geeky facts as I promised but this fact I am about to reveal was not advertised in any of the ships literature on the matter. In fact it came from the brainstems of Roisin who tends to read the programmes when we visit the opera and ...
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