I discovered that I hadn't finished this. It was still in draft form. So, it's a bit out of sequence. We went through on March 31.

The Suez Canal is located in Egypt, west of the Sinai Peninsula . It connects Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Suez on the Red Sea. It provides an essentially direct route for transport of goods between Europe and Asia.

The Canal is about 121 miles long but with no locks so the transit time averages only about 15 hours.

The Suez Canal Corridor Area Project is a mega project in Egypt that was launched on August 5, 2014. The project's aim is to increase the role of the Suez Canal region in international trading and to develop the three canal cities: Suez, Ismailia, and Port Said. The project involves building a new city (new Ismallyah city, an industrial zone, fish farms, completing the technology valley, building 7 new tunnels between Sinai and Ismailia and Port Said, improving 5 existing ports and digging a new canal parallel to the Suez Canal.

We had great historical presentations on this remarkable achievement. Originally it was hand dug, but that's another story.