Watching the boats go by
Trip Start
Sep 17, 2007
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Trip End
Oct 08, 2008
Suez,
Red Sea and Sinai,
Egypt
Saturday, June 21, 2008
This wasn't a tourist town to begin with, and it was low season and summer. The town was dead. We caught a taxi to the port and got a room at an overpriced hotel. The upside was that our room was on the sixth floor and you could see the boats going through the canal from our balcony.
We wandered down to the canal to try to find the tourist office. It was closed. So we sat and watched the boats go by. They were big. Every couple minutes a new one would come through. It was interesting to see where they were from. Quite a few from Panama, which reminded us of our visit to that canal so very long ago. We sought out one of the restaurants and climbed upstairs. There were people working there but I suppose it was closed
big boat
. We got a drink and ordered a pizza. He came back and calmly told us our pizza would take one years. We took that to mean an hour. Actually, it was over an hour before the cook arrived to start cooking our pizza. We just went with the hot, lazy day and watched the boats go by.The next morning, the boats had changed direction and we watched them float above the apartment buildings 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 the desert.
~Travis
