Ismailia sits halfway along the canal and was built by de Lesseps for the company that dug it, which gives it wide streets and colonial villas unlike anywhere else in Egypt. From the bank you watch ships pass at eye level with sand behind them. The regional museum covers the canal and the Pharaonic canal that preceded it.
Drive from Cairo, about two hours. Time on the canal bank for a convoy, the museum and the old quarter, lunch by Lake Timsah.
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The tourist regions are heavily policed and we work in them daily. Your guide stays with you at every site. If you are travelling alone, tell us - we will match you with a guide accordingly.
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Wooden colonial arcades, a free-port high street and the Mediterranean entrance.
Best seller The world's largest single-civilisation museum, then the plateau it was built to face.
Best seller The plateau on its own, in four hours, without the museum attached.
