Judith Diane's Amazing Adventures: July 2017

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Suez

a town of Egypt, stands at the edge of the desert at the head of a gulf of the same name and at the S. end of the Suez Canal, 75 m. E. of Cairo, with which it is connected by railway; as a trading place, dating back to the times of the Ptolemies, has had a fluctuating prosperity, but since the completion of the canal is growing steadily in importance; is still for the most part an ill-built and ill-kept town; has a large English hospital and ship-stores.

Suez

Suez is a seaport city in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, having the same boundaries as Suez governorate. It has three harbors, Adabya, Ain Sokhna and Port Tawfiq, and extensive port facilities. Together they form a metropolitan area. Railway lines and highways connect the city with Cairo, Port Said, and Ismailia. Suez has a petrochemical plant, and its oil refineries have pipelines carrying the finished product to Cairo.

The Suez Canal (Arabic: قناة السويس‎‎ qanāt as-suwēs) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. Constructed by the Suez Canal Company between 1859 and 1869, it was officially opened on November 17, 1869. The canal offers watercraft a shorter journey between the North Atlantic and northern Indian Oceans via the Mediterranean and Red seas by avoiding the South Atlantic and southern Indian oceans, in turn reducing the journey by approximately 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi). It extends from the northern terminus of Port Said to the southern terminus of Port Tewfik at the city of Suez. Its length is 193.30 km (120.11 mi), including its northern and southern access channels. In 2012, 17,225 vessels traversed the canal (47 per day)

Big Sister QUEEN MARY 2

The EUROPA II, head of the convoy to go through the Suez Canal. We, MV QUEEN ELIZBETH were 3rd.

MS EUROPA II, the most luxurious ship in the world - the only 6-star vessel

More sand than we saw, even in Oman

Vegetation along the way

Most photos were taken with the zoon

Lots of fishermen

Cannot get rid of this number ???

Going under the bridge

Solar energy

Back to reality

QM2 bridge as we parted

Farewell to QM 2 - we are bound for Istanbul

Salalah صلالة
City

Salalah Location of Salalah in Oman
Coordinates: 17°01′11″N 54°05′23″ECoordinates: 17°01′11″N 54°05′23″E
Country	Oman
Muhafadha	Dhofar
Government
• Type	Absolute Monarchy
• Sultan	Qaboos bin Said
Population (2016)
• Metro	340,815
Time zone	Oman standard time (UTC+4)
Website	www.OMANet.om

Salalah (Arabic: صلالة‎‎ transliterated Ṣalālah), is the capital and seat of the wali (governor) of the southern Omani province of Dhofar. Its population in 2009 was 197,169.^[1]
Salalah is the second largest city in the Sultanate of Oman, and the largest city in the Dhofar Province. Salalah is the birthplace of the current sultan, Qaboos bin Said. Salalah attracts lots of people from other parts of Oman and the Persian Gulf region during the khareef season, which spans from July to September. The climate of the region and the monsoon allows the city to grow some vegetables and fruits like coconut.

On the tour bus, going to the oasis

Arabic

A moonscape with water

New buildings everywhere

The country home?

Townhouses, especially for Europeans - according to the guide

Administrative building and home for the administrator

One of the few lawns along the route

Mostly, it looked like this

Service stops here?

The compound for one, extended family, said the guide, but it looked more like mosques and schools

The oasis - finally

I thought, at first, that the "film" was broken but this is a digital camera - it's the step

There were workers, barefoot, in the water, despite the sign

First warning - bad translation

Any ornithologists reading this ?? What kind of bird ?

Now, on the way to visit the palace of the Queen of Sheba - regardless of what the Yemenis claim!

Guarding the park

Khor Rorī (Arabic خور روري) is an Early South Arabian archaeological site near Salalah in the Dhofar region of modern Oman. The small fortified town was founded as an outpost for the kingdom of Ḥaḑramawt around the 1st century CE, but the site shows signs of Ḥaḑramite settlement back to the 2nd century BCE.^[1] The settlement was probably abandoned in the seventh century.
Inscriptions at Khor Rori reports that the town, called "Sumhuram" (Old South Arabian s₁mhrm), was founded on royal initiative and settled by Ḥadramite emigrants. Dhofar was the main source of frankincense in the ancient period, and it seems likely that the foundation of the settlement was in part motivated by a Ḥaḑramite wish to control the production of this valuable commodity. Most scholars identify Khor Rori with the frankincense exporting port of Moscha Limen mentioned in this region in the 1st century CE merchants guide Periplus Maris Erythraei.
Khor Rorī / Sumhuram was first discovered by James Theodore Bent during his travels in the region in the late 19th century. The site has been excavated by the American Foundation for the Study of Man (AFSM) in the early 1950s and by the Italian Mission to Oman (IMTO) since 1994. The excavations have uncovered the ground plan of the settlement and has attested maritime contacts with the Ḥaḑramite homeland, India and the Mediterranean. It was inscribed in 2000, along with other sites along the Incense Route in Oman, as part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Land of Frankincense"^[1]