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- Khartoum
- Capital
- Sudanese Dinar (SDD)
- Currency
- 36,080,373
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Sudan
Travel Blogs from Sudan
Sudanese hospitality
... food of Sudan was "like Egyptian, but reduced to basics", and that we "can expect little in the extras department". Since arriving in Sudan I've eaten the best fuul on the tour, with plenty of "extras": grated cheese (which is as divine as I remember) ...
Sandy zippers
... being whiped through the city in a listering convoy of riders and police sirens, and I could not convince the commercial traffic of Sudan to hang ten while I slowed the convoy to figure it out. I guess everyone was too concerned about getting to showers ...
Khartoum to Wadi Halfa, fourth leg
Khartoum to Wadi Halfa. Fourth leg. Wednesday 10 December. Nubian hospitality. We continued along the Nile, along sand and gravel tracks (not easy but doable) passed the Nubian villages of Delgo, Abri and Akasha where the road leaves the Nile and ...
Khartoum to Wadi Halfa, first leg
... A third option exists, and that is the one we have chosen. The most of both worlds. We wanted to visit the pyramids of Meroe. Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt but has kept relatively mum about it. Still we wanted to see them. That meant the Atbara road. ...
Khartoum to Wadi Halfa, second leg
Khartoum to Wadi Halfa. Second leg. Crossing the S-curve. Monday 8 December The next morning we left for Atbara and reached that town quickly. Atbara is the town where the Atbara river, coming from the Eritrean/Ethiopian border, is the last ...
Khartoum to Wadi Halfa, third leg
... get diesel only to find that everything was still closed due to the Hadj holidays. However, there is always something possible in Sudan so we changed a hundred bucks in the market, had a real Sudanese breakfast (Fatour) which is Ful (beans) lentils and ...
Waiting in Wadi Halfa
... . Geopolitically it is unimportant, but it is a bargaining chip for Egypt (that wants to have Nile water available at any time), Sudan (that wants to have quiet Nubians on the borders), Libya (that apparently wants to keep porous borders to gain from the ...
From Gondar to Khartoum
... the turnoff to Metema. That was the beginning of another bumpy ride. In this case the Koreans were building a new road. Sudan and Ethiopia signed a bilateral agreement on trade and one of the stipulations was the improvement of the road. To improve, you ...
A different beginning
Hey, So, just in case anyone's still checking this: I'm in Sudan! Woo. I have 3 weeks in which to a) be a help to Justice Africa Sudan b) learn more about the lives of Sudanese migrants to Khartoum c) learn some arabic I will let you know how this goes. ...
Dinder Canal Camp to Stone Village
97.46km, ave 16.87km/h, total ride time 5:46, total time 8:01 Strategy for the day was survival. I joined up with Femke who is leading the ladies race. The race was only to lunch at 53km and then make our way to the finish at 97km, I guess the reason ...
Khartoum to Rufaa Bush Camp
145.10km, ave 25.6km/h, total ride time 5:39, total time 6:57 Being a Friday morning there was little traffic as we made our way out of the city. The roads have deteriorated a little and concentration was necessary to stay upright. At the same time I ...
Rest day Dongola
Rest was the order of the day, with clothes washing done all I had to do was the bike. I also changed the saddle which Alan (SA rider) lent me, my saddle is causing me much pain. After that we repacked bags (again) and sat on the roof at the guest ...
Wadi Halfa to Nile Camp
149.05km, ave 25.3km/h, total ride time 5:53, total time 6:43 We got off to a late start, (still trying to sort out lockers), Shona and I rode together but she was really battling and I could tell there was something wrong as she was not keeping up. It ...
Nile Camp to Nile Camp
144.96km, ave 28.2km/h, total ride time 5:08, total time 5:42 Shona did not ride today as her leg is still swollen. I did a mostly solo ride again today, I really have to get into a bunch and save some energy as these long rides on my own with my iPod ...
Dongola to Dead Camel Camp
140.34km, ave 25.6km/h, total ride time 5:28, total time 7:07 I started off with the racers this morning and was soon dropped, I am not quite over this cold and maybe my lucky day as a few km down the road one guy went down in a crash and he will ...
Desert Camp to Khartoum
103.08km, ave 27.9km/h, total ride time 3:41, total time 5:18 Today's stage was the ride into Khartoum and the end of the first section of the tour, the tour is made up of 8 sections. We started off with an easy 10km to start the individual time trial ...
Desert Camp to Desert Camp
148.12km, ave 28.3km/h, total ride time 5:13, total time 6:18 Three 140km+ days in a row and still no mando day, what is still to come? A few more people had joined the "group" today and the pace was a bit quicker, less than 10km in I was feeling flat ...
Nile Camp to Dongola
113.24km, ave 35.7km/h, total ride time 3:10, total time 4:02 I woke up with my throat still a little bit scratchy, today was a non race day with a fun team time trial thrown in. The TTT was 30km which started after 10km and we were in teams of 5, we ...
Arrival in Wadi Halfa
... a quick dinner in the little town before the rider meeting to sort out lockers. We are now with the TDA truck that was waiting in Sudan, we packed our lockers and had to repack to make it fit, bit of a challenge at the moment which we need to figure out, ...
Dead Camel Camp to Desert Camp
144.64km, ave 25.9km/h, total ride time 5:35, total time 7:16 I joined up with the leading ladies, they have a good pace and still take time to "smell the roses"or the desert sand as the case may be!, I had ridden bits and pieces with them before and ...
Rest day - Khartoum
Today was all about rest, Shona spent the better part of the day in bed so I sympathised and did the same, updating blogs, GPS etc. I took a little walk around but (obviously) missed more of what this city has to offer and from a few other riders it is ...
Stone Village to Doka
86.53km, ave 16.57km/h, total ride time 5:13, total time 7:36 I woke up a little late still feeling a little tired, but with EFI on the line "a man has got to do what a man has got to do", ok I won't be stupid about it. The race was only 40km to lunch ...
Rufaa Bush Camp to Sennar Bush Camp
155.12km, ave 28.2km/h, total ride time 5:32, total time 7:01 We woke up this morning to find that 2 guys bikes had been stolen overnight, rude awakening, I was wondering what the people in the rest of the country were like compared to those in the ...
Sennar Bush Camp to Dinder Canal Camp
86.70km, ave 21.4km/h, total ride time 4:03, total time 4:26 I got going early and was joined by Alan and Steve (SA boys) all on mountain bikes and ready to play. The first 15km was on tar and then the dirt. A corrugated dirt road alongside the railway ...
Tour d'Afrique: Khartoum baby!!
... would be so damn obvious this early on! Our route has pretty much tracked the Nile through Egypt south and into The Sudan. it has been mostly desert and the tour books describe most of the area as "desolate". You will see from the photo ...
Sun Sand Suffering in Khartoum
... the moment “ you have to remind yourself .Speaking of relative comforts we recently arrived in a campsite in Dongola Sudan after 4 days without a shower, we were told there were shower facilities which turned out to be 2 stand pipes with leaky ...
