Globetrotting

The cutting of the Suez Canal dramatically reduced the journey to India and other countries of the East, from the West.


Before the digging of the Suez Canal, Port Said was an insignificant village on the Egyptian coast of the Mediterranean Sea. But when the digging of the canal commenced, it’s population increased to house many workers and at one time it was as high as 14,000. The rocks that meet the eye of the traveller as he enters into the canal are a part of the breakwater that enters into the sea for two miles on either side of the channel of the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal was formally declared open for the passage of shipping vessels on 20th November, 1869.


Ferdinand de Lesseps, the engineer who visualised the canal before it was dug had it excavated through the desert and it is 300 feet wide at the surface and 77 feet deep to its bottom, and 26 feet deep with banks rising from 15 feet to 70 feet or 80 feet high. The work on the canal was reduced by connecting it to two small lakes on its way to meet the Red Sea, forever dividing the continent of Asia and Africa into two separate regions. The southern terminus near the Red Sea is at Suez, which is a much larger city than Port Said.


Before the canal was cut, ships to India had to go through the long route around the continent of Africa near the Cape of Good Hope, which was a tedious voyage. The cutting of the Suez Canal dramatically reduced the journey to India and other countries of the East, from the West.

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