http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Sudan , North en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 07:46:00 +0000 Sun, 19 May 2013 07:46:00 +0000 Back in Sudan again for one year http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Khartoum/blog-735131.html We ended up spending a few more days in Khartoum than planned as there was some Nuban wrestling on Fridays that we wanted to check out. Unfortunately in the end we didn39t manage to see it despite getting the bus out to the part of the city that it was supposedly on. We thought 2 guys had understood where we wanted to go and would tell us where to get off but then they go off the bus and no http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Khartoum/blog-694722.html We had to get up at 6.30 a.m. to get our bus to Khartoum at 7. The bus didn't end up leaving until around 8ish but got bought some tea by the guy in charge as we waited. The coach was another proper one with air conditioning but again with blaring Sudanese music. The speaker system must be new as music was pumping throughout the bus. We arrived in Khartoum at about 2 p.m. and got in touch with ou http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Khartoum/blog-690012.html We got an early morning bus to Karima. Unlike our previous journeys this was a proper coach with air conditioning. Although with blaring loud Sudanese music. The journey was only 2 hours and we arrived in Karima at around lunchtime.I immediately preferred Karima to the other places in Sudan we had been. It is much more of a sleepy dusty town with all the buildings painted in white and bright co http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Karima/blog-690011.html After waking up in Abri we found our minibus to Dongola. This was a fairly tight squeeze all the way but the road was brilliant again so the journey wasn39t too bad and took only about 3 hours which was a lot less than we had expected. We checked into the Lord Hotel which was another lokanda. Dongola was a much bigger and busier town than the previous two we had been in so far in Sudan. How http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Dongola/blog-689466.html The first night sleep in Sudan was better than expected. Jack and I who were about the only two not travelling with their own vehicle so didn't have to wait for the second ship with the vehicles to arrive decided to get a bus to Abri.We found a minibus going in that direction and after about half an hour of waiting for it to fill up were on our way. The journey took only 2 and half hours. While http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Abri/blog-689400.html After getting off the boat minibuses took us to immigration where all of the foreigners were fast tracked without much searching of our bags. My original plan had been to go straight to Abri that day but as there was quite a few other people around I got a room in a lokanda a Sudanese hotel where the rooms have more in common with prison cells with Jack an Australian guy doing a similar t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Wadi-Halfa/blog-689397.html Hicran Cidem Yorgancolu nun Sudan Khartoum Hartum Devri Alem Hicri Alem Hicran idem Seyahatnamesinden ..seyahat notlarndan alntlardr . Her hakk sakldr .. Eserin tm telif haklar H.idem Yorgancoluna aittir . Eserin izinsiz kopyalanmas oaltm yayn datm halinde 5846 sayl Fikir ve Sanat Eserleri Kanunun hkmleri geerli olac http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Khartoum/blog-688797.html Did you know some of the oldest pyramids in the world are in Sudan How about volcanic landscapes unexcavated tombs and sand swept temples With the dunes of the Nubian Desert reclaiming archeological sites and petrified forests before your eyes you soon find yourself on an Indiana Jones adventure hunting for lost treasures and exploring the final frontier. A frontier of secret chambers and hid http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Atbara/blog-686511.html http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Khartoum/blog-635712.html http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Khartoum/blog-631403.html The result of the January 2011 referendum ensures Sudan will confront a period of momentous and irrevocable change. An overwhelming majority of the population in South Sudan voted for independence from the North barely ten years after the cessation of hostilities in what was the longest running civil war on the African continent. As a result North and South Sudan will be going their separate way http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Khartoum/blog-613391.html There were 2 westerners who got off a bus in a desert village of Sudan. One hopped back on the bus the other set off on a great Sudanese day experience.I crossed over to Sudan from Ethiopia. The border town of Gallabat is a small shitty transit point. A kid about 15 acted like he was helping me and wanted a tip. I paid 15 for the bus instead of 10 and he wanted a tip. I argued with him whilst he http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/blog-565218.html I am in Nuri a small Sudanese village and walking towards some dilapidated pyramids. A police guard decked out in light blue walks up to me and informs it costs 25 pounds to enter about 6.50. I had already seen two groups of pyramids the days earlier so I decided to walk off. At the roundabout I walk along the other street and thought. Well the morning is not over yet I might as well have my http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Khartoum/blog-563971.html Jeszcze nie wyjechalismy z Dongoli. Rafalowi cos szwankuje w tylnym kole. Serwis zajal mu caly dzien ktory my przeznaczylismy na sleczenie nad netem nowa strona wciaz w budowie. Podsylam troche fotek z Sudanu. 4 dni naszej trasy z Wadi Halfy do Dongoli. Pustynia oraz wzdluz Nilu rowniez pustynia http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Dongola/blog-559151.html Od 4 dni jestesmy w SUDANIE Przyplynelismy tu z Aswanu w Egipcie do Wadi Halfy. Podrozy odbylismy w wesolym gronie w sumie 11 rowerzystow wszycy jada tak jak my do Pld Afryki Rosjanina autostopowicza i kilku motocyklistow posrod ktorych jeden gluchy Japonczyk ktory jest w trakcie samotnej podrozy dookola Swiata Podroz naprawde bylaby przednia gdyby nie to ze kuchnia egipska dala sie mi p http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Dongola/blog-558962.html We left a still sleeping and possibly hungover Abri early the following morning and head south along the Nile towards Kerma 3 hours away. Along the way we stopped off at the small village of Wawa. Wawa is pleasant enough with wide dusty lanes and single storey yellow and blue Nubian house but apart from that has little of interest itself. The main attraction is situated on the opposite ba http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Kerma/blog-552221.html Day two in Abri and we'd arranged to meet up with Magzoob who we'd met the night before. We later worked out that through the glories of pigeon English and miscommunication he got the impression that back in the UK I'm an author not a book designer. 22 then equalled 5 and he thought I was writing a travel guide to Sudan. At this point he started trying his hardest to entertain and impress http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Abri/blog-551968.html Sudan. The name alone seems to strike fear into people. Civil war. Darfur. Sharia Law. It's seem like an odd country to be excited about visiting but I've been looking forward to it for months. Every first hand account I've read has been full of nothing but praise for travelling through the country and the people Nubians Fur Arab and more are said to be the most hospitable people in Africa http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Abri/blog-551773.html And I thought it was convoluted getting off the ferry from Italy into Egypt. It's an entirely different ball game In Wadi Halfa. First you need to get your passport stamped although noone tells you this until you're woken at 6am by an angry man claiming there isn't much time we land just 5 hours later. Then you fill out a travel permit although no one tells you this either or even hands them http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Sudan/North/Wadi-Halfa/blog-551767.html