Visiting the suez canal from The Red to The Med

Visiting the suez canal from The Red to The Med

Today we’re going to journey to the Suez canal 
uh it’s a 193 km waterway that goes from the   Red Sea up to the Mediterranean Sea and there 
are three stops that one can stop at on the way   there’s the Suez section there’s the Bitter Lake 
section and then there’s Port Said and that’s what   we’re bringing for you today. Long long ago the 
Pharoahs tried to construct a canal but never   quite made it. About 1.5 million people were used 
to construct this canal and in the beginning they   used slaves, they didn’t pay them, and under 
very very harsh conditions and that was stopped   in 1864 due to international pressure. Thereafter 
people got paid a minimal wage and it was really   really tough. There were very tough conditions and 
many many people died. Apparently about 120,000   people died in in the 10 years that it took to 
construct. The main things that they died of were   things like just poor sanitation and things like 
dysentry TB and then obviously exhaustion so um   very very tough conditions. In 1956 President Nasa 
nationalized the canal and um soon thereafter this   led to the Suez crisis where the British French 
and Israelis invaded Egypt. This crisis ended with   the withdrawal of those different countries and 
a united peacekeeping force was then established.   Since then another canal has been constructed 
which has really increased the efficiency of   the flow of the actual ships, If this canal was 
not there it would take the ships coming from   Europe round through Africa to the east, it would 
it would cost them an extra 7,000 to 9,000 km in   time and money so it is one of the most important 
waterways in the world. The town of Suez near the   Red Sea where we started was actually quite a 
pleasant town not too hectic. We had a delicious   fish meal, and we really battled to find any 
access to actually seeing the ships going by,   and eventually we managed to get on top of the 
the rooftop of a hotel and saw some amazing sights so it’s incredible how these little places pop 
up next uh there’s date palms and mangoes on this side and absolutely nothing on this side what’s this they’re like a crunchy date thing so you’re catching fish for the cat? That’s very kind of you oh cute man We are now on our way looking for the the Great 
Bitter Lake the great bitter lake that’s what   we’re looking for. passing through the town of 
Faiyed and we are passing through the town of Faiyed it’s a obviously a little town between Suez   and Ishmalia and I don’t think 
many tourists actually ever come here i just get that feeling smells like a Smells like a fish town the old rubbish truck and a fakkahaney 
selling fruit selling fakkah So it seems like everything is blocked up the 
whole way we have not been able to get in and just   have a quick peek at this and we found a little 
sneaky spot that we’ve just come to have a look   at so we can see this bitter lake vibe and see 
there’s the Wow look at all those boats there hey actually the water’s quite nice 
and clear quite surprising think   this might be quite a fancy holiday destination and you can see all the [Music] boats the 
big ships going from Egypt up to Port Said   so we’re on our way there now maybe we’re 
going to get there before them who knows [Music] [Music] and another Fakaheyne selling hisfakkah 
and apparently mangoes are the thing to buy in   this town or in Ishmaelia it’s they’re the best 
mangoes so we’re going to have to try and find   some and see if we agree so this in Ishmaelia 
is apparently some of the best mangoes in the [Music] country huge bridge going over the Suez canal Behind that wall is the Suez Canal you used 
to be able to see the ship sailing by but   now unfortunately you can’t. So we’re 
very excited we’ve just been invited   by our lovely driver Ishmael who’s 
over there to a his friend who has a   um a farm a house on the edge of this lake 
and we are have been invited to he’s going   to go and catch a fish and we’re going to 
have a picnic with them so that’s pretty   cool i don’t think many people get to see 
this sort of thing somehow we always end up   hitting the luck hey so here we are suddenly 
in a boat in these fish farms and um we have Muhammad Isaiah alhamdulillah [Music] there is the canal [Music]   [Applause] [Music] Jegs waiting for his ship to come in [Music] meanwhile on the route less Traveled Okay so we’re going to try and get 
on the boardwalk so that we can [Music]   get a proper view of the canal 
for the first time there we go nice no ships happening at the moment [Music] on the famous Suez Canal [Music] so as the afternoon prayers [Music] blurt out 
we’re on our way to Salt City or Salt Hills   in on the other side of Port Sed y obviously 
one of the main tourist attractions here is   to come to this salty hill and I guess it 
looks a bit like snow so it’s quite unique [Music] [Music]   there’s so many of these little stores all 
over the place like little little cafeterias   or little little places where you can go 
and buy water and chips and what I love   about this is that there’s just it’s 
just left completely unattended and   nobody steals anything it’s absolutely 
wonderful look here nobody not a soul around what a pleasure and we’re off again to try and find where 
these ships pass on the canal we sat for   3 hours yesterday probably in fact in the 
wrong spot because we didn’t see one ship   going past now we’re going to another 
canal apparently there’s two or three   little inlets that we’re going to go to 
so early bird catches the worm hopefully   stunning sunrise and the moon 
going down on the other side karim Zak alhamdulillah alhamdulillah anti anti-inul and kulu is big everything and uh semek laziz ouwie [Music] and finally I think that we have 
found after hours of looking [Music] where   the ships come into the canal [Music] as 
we come to the end of our trip with our   new friend best taxi driver ever we are 
so happy that we’ve achieved our mission   of seeing the ships in all three places 
the Suez, The Bitter Lakes and eventually   the Med so mission accomplished thanks for 
watching we’ll see you next time [Music]

Visiting the suez canal from the town of Suez on the Red Sea to The Bitter Lake and ending up in Port Said on the Med sea.
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00:00 Introduction
02:55 The town of suez
04:45 The Bitter Lake
08:49 Adventure on a fish farm
10:30 Exploring Port Said
14:11 Looking for the big ships