Werner Cohnitz

Image Not Available for Early morning by the Suez Canal. On the canal, a rowing boat with the typical solar sail goes by.

Image Not Available for It looks like a ship sailing in the desert, but here the canal is level with the desert sands and one does not see the water.

Image Not Available for Early break at dawn on the Suez Canal at Port Said.

Image Not Available for Egyptian fishermen on the Suez Canal draw in their nets in the early dawn. Oil and gasoline tanks are seen on the other side of the canal.

Image Not Available for A trader sells coconuts for a few cents, which his costumers drink with pleasure.

Image Not Available for May is festival month of the Buddhists. The farmers in the villages surround their homes with gigantic embankments of coconuts, which are often some meters high and are composed from thousands of fresh nuts.

Image Not Available for Village houses with the mountains in the distance.

Image Not Available for Dinner-time at a Swiss hotel near Vierwaldstättersee (the Lake of the Four Cantons). Long after sundown, the sky and the lake are brightly illuminated.

Image Not Available for All along the Suez Canal are signal stations, like the one here in Port Said.

Image Not Available for Snow still lies on the mountains, as the first group of sunbathers of the season relax by the lake.

Image Not Available for Police patrol on the road alongside the Suez Canal.

Image Not Available for A Shintoistische procession similar to processions celebrated 2,000 years ago. The only modern looking person at the celebration is the policeman at the left of the photograph.