On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
arrieve
Continuing through the Canal.
Looking through one of the spans of the El Ferdan railway bridge.
More of the dreamy pictures taken in the misty weather. You can see that the canal gets wider below the Friendship Bridge as you approach the Great Bitter Lake.
I think this was taken when we were entering the lake.
One thing that became more pronounced in the southern part of the canal was the difference between the two banks. On the western side is the Egyptian mainland, and the Nile delta. There are a lot of trees, and most of the cities are on that side.
On the eastern side is the Sinai. It’s rocky desert and seems sparsely inhabited.
This is a car ferry, docked on the delta side.
I’m not sure I would have the nerve to take a boat across the canal with all of those big ships aiming for me.
A city on the Delta side of the canal.
Shallufa, on the Delta side. There used to be an RAF base there.
Buildings on the Sinai side of the canal.
Another building on the Sinai side.
The Sinai
One last picture.
I liked this picture because of the man who was just standing outside, using his phone, with probably no awareness that a nosy tourist on the passing ship was taking his picture.
It was dark when we left the canal and entered the Red Sea at Port Suez, so I don’t have any pictures of that, unfortunately. There were huge flocks of seagulls swooping around us and in the lights from the ship they looked like angels following us out of the canal–a perfect ending to the adventure.
Van Buren
Man, you would have to give me a lot of tries before I could have correctly guessed the 2nd pic was the Suez.
OzarkHillbilly
Pretty cool, thanx arrieve.
arrieve
It looks like I accidentally submitted the same picture twice. The Shallufa picture is here, on the bottom right.
eclare
What an amazing trip, thanks!
stinger
I’ve always thought of Egypt as hot, dry, and bustling in the sunshine. I would never have imagined the mist, which does make it appear dreamy and peaceful. What did you hear during this day-long passage? — I suppose birds, your ship, other ships?
Now the Sinai side, that appeared the way I’d imagined! Really love the next-to-last photo, and I have many questions! (Which you probably can’t answer, as you stayed on your ship!)
WaterGirl
@arrieve: I just added your other photo from the link. Let me know if I didn’t get the right one.
MelissaM
This has been a fascinating photo journey! thanks.
arrieve
@WaterGirl: That’s it! Thank you.
arrieve
@stinger:
It was very quiet for the most part, especially in the southern part of the canal where I took this set of pictures. In the northern section there were lots of seagulls, and small fishing boats with men shouting to each other, and traffic on the bridge we passed under, but in this section there was just the sound of the water.
Mike in NC
Looks just like I remember it in 1984.
ema
Great pictures, thank you! (I keep imagining you running back and forth from one end of the ship to the other with a “Must take pictures for OTR!” thought bubble.)
way2blue
Love your ‘structural’ bridge photos. And the juxtaposition of either side of the canal. (FWIW. The 1939 ‘Four White Feathers’ film depicts the Nile River before the Aswan High Dam was constructed. Very cool scenes of men hauling boats upstream with ropes.)
BigJimSlade
Very interesting trip and great pictures!