Egypt - Suez Canal

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The Suez canal passes hundreds of ships a day.	Taxes from the canal form a major part of Egypt's income.	In the morning, the ships all go one way, and in the evening, the go the other way. The canal doesn...	Its quite odd to be driving down the freeway, with farms on either side, and millions of tonnes of o...	Some of the container ships are enourmous.	And they can move at a good jogging pace.	Up and down the canal there are men with AK47s shooing people like me away. So we drove up a bit fu...	The slew in the foreground is aparently good fishing. Not that you'd catch me eating anything from ...	I climbed up on a big pile of dirt, and got a little better view.	I have no idea what the structure in the foreground is, but some guy was so mad that I was there, th...
I often wondered why the gaurds where there. Perhaps so we didn't steal the canal? It does make al...	This was a really big ship, trust me.	Didn't think I could take that many pictures of ships did ya.	And we're done with the ships.