Port Said Egypt, Cairo
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Frequently Asked Questions
At the quays at the northern entrance of the Suez Canal, on the edge of town. Everything in Port Said faces the canal: the quays, the wooden balconies, the lighthouse, the green domes of the Canal Authority.
For the canal, and nothing else at first. The city was born in 1859 with the works, out of sand and water, to house engineers, labourers and traders from around the world. It bears the name of the viceroy Said Pasha.
Architecture found nowhere else in Egypt: buildings with tiered galleries and wooden balconies, survivors of a vanished cosmopolitan era. The seafront and the shopping streets are walked the way you leaf through an album of the maritime nineteenth century.
Yes, and for free, from the corniche. Convoys of giant ships enter or emerge, pilots ahead of them, framed by the Canal Authority building with its three green domes and the 1869 lighthouse, one of the world's first major reinforced-concrete structures.
A free public ferry linking Port Said to its twin, Port Fouad, on the Asian bank. The crossing takes a few minutes and carries you from one continent to another through the shipping traffic: few calls anywhere offer that.
The corniche and the lighthouse, the Port Fouad ferry there and back, then the national museum or the central market. It is a programme with no coach, entirely on foot or by short taxi ride.
Yes, but it makes a long day: about 220 kilometres, three to four hours on the road each way. The pyramids, the Sphinx and the Cairo museums in a single day, for sufficiently long calls only.
Egyptian seaside cooking: grilled fish and Delta prawns above all, in the seafront restaurants. Cardamom coffee and honey pastries to finish, while the silhouettes of waiting ships slide past the window.
Yes, the national museum, with collections running from the pharaohs to the Islamic period. It is a useful summary of Egyptian history for anyone staying in town rather than heading for Cairo.
Neither, and it is better to know before going ashore. What it offers is of another order: the sense of standing at the hinge between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, between Africa and Asia, where the whole world has passed for a century and a half.
