Suez & Sinai

I've lost count on the number of road trips completed during my stay here in Egypt. As we've run out of tourist spots, these trips are becoming more exciting & interesting. May-day, we decided to hit the roads up to the Suez crossing into Sinai.

Picture of the Suez, taken from the Upper Egypt side, across the Suez is Sinai. Imagine air craft carriers cruising on this canal for the Iraq war.

FYI, Sinai is the part of Egypt that has been plagued by the terrorist bombings, the last being as recent as last week. But what the heck, as long you dont travel with a large group of humans that look white, you're pretty much safe! So we (Me, Rasha & Hassen) decided to give this part of the dessert a good look, with no concrete plans, we decided to look up a French map of sinai and found a nice remote village where we "could" get some seafood. Part of the plan was also to "sample" shisha along the way in every town !

3 travelling stooges, me, Hassen from Tunisia & Rasha from Algeria & My driver Waleed
who's taking this picture la!

Before crossing the Suez, we decided to sample the Shisha at the Suez town. Me & driver Waleed on the sampling activity, while Rasha heads to the local Cyber Cafe to send some urgent mails!! We were impressed that a small town by the Suez had at least 2 ADSL based Cyber Cafe!

There are 2 crossings on Suez. The southern crossing is a Tunnel and the nothern crossing is a bridge. We crossed into Sinai using the southern border and drove north 150KM's to the northern crossing. The following picture is taken from Sinai, note the ship that looks "docked" on the dessert...it's actually moving on the suez!

After loads of shisha and dessert driving, we finally reach the remote village where we're surprised to see this sign board. Ericsson should change it's motto to "Ericsson: Taking you places"

Finally, we found the fish shop!

More pictures of suez

Now we're on a dilemma ...where to visit next weekend? Need to look at the French Map again to look for some clues ...it's surely more reliable then the local maps you get in Egypt!