El Mestkawu

Suez Canal


A fabulous shaded verandah cafe where the town's old-timers gossip, drink coffee and watch the world go by while smoking a shisha.


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Nearby Suez Canal attractions

1. Garden of the Stelae

0.21 MILES

Just southwest of Ismailia's museum is a garden containing a rather forlorn little sphinx from the time of Ramses II (1279–1213 BC). You need permission…

2. Ismailia Museum

0.34 MILES

More than 4000 objects from Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman times are housed in this tiny but interesting museum on the eastern edge of town. The collection…

3. De Lesseps’s House

0.38 MILES

Unfortunately, unless you're a guest of the Suez Canal Authority (the house is its private guesthouse), you can only admire the exterior of the one-time…