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Published: February 6th 2008
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During our stay in Khartoum we had the opportunity to check out the "Whirling Dervishes". Every Friday the Sufi Muslims gather at the cemetery and take part in an interesting religous ceremony that involves lots of chanting and dancing. The idea being that the ceremony brings them closer to God. Some of the participants work themselves into such a trance by spinning and hopping around that they really do appear to be in a different world. One guy was witnessed to be spinning for half an hour straight. Pretty incredible!
Our last night in Sudan we camped near the Ethiopian border. Oddly enough the area was littered with old spent artillary shells, hmmm... Nice sunrise sending us off the next day though.
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