Bardawīl Coast

Along northern Sinai, a narrow sandbar separates the shallow Bardawil lagoon from the Mediterranean. The lagoon, known in antiquity as Lake Sirbonis, attracts migrating waterbirds to its saline shores. The barrier also carried a coastal route between Egypt and the Levant: travellers used it from Persian times through the Mamluk period, with the sea on one side and the lagoon on the other.