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Where Blue and White Nile meet
Entering Sudan was quite a shock. The desert starts almost at the border and doesn't leave you, I wonder if the south is different.. Anyway, after a night at Wad Madani I reached Khartoum. It took me ages to reach the Blue Nile Yacht Club since people sent me back and forth the city before giving me the right indication. I ended up in Omdurman and had a megawalk over the bridge and a couple of kilometers up the river.. the city doesn't really offer ...
Surprising Sudan
... to accept an invitation, the Sudanese make very tasty food indeed.
I spent a week in Khartoum, far longer than I usually do in cities. Why? Well, for three reasons really. Firstly, I was due to meet a friend of mine on the 20th. Sadly though, this rendezvous did not happen as planned, since he could not get his hands on the necessary visa for love nor money. Secondly, because a mild illness, which has been lingering over me for some time ...
Khartoum - hot, but safe and very friendly
... is named so because of the light coloured clay sediment
suspended in the water giving the river a light gray colour.
Ah yes, when I was there at the confluence of the Nile, I got invited by some kids for an ice-cream, was a lot of fun to talk with them (some of them know quite good English) and take pictures...
As Sudanese-American relations are not too good (all American products are banned I think, and Americans hardly get a visa), ...
Food Food Food and more Food
When reading the stories of Africa’s earliest explorers and conquerors, one cannot help but react with awe and amusement to their tales of adventure, hardship, slavery, magic and war. The picture they paint for us delves well into the realm of the unbelievable. The first European explorers in Ethiopia tell us of people who believed their ruler could hear them speak from hundreds of miles away, and of lavish banquets where live cattle were butchered and ...
Back to Jail / Zurück in den Knast
... far outskirts of town, we decided pay a visit there. The ride took a long time and when we finally arrived we did not find a polling station there. Instead we were told that all prisoner eligible to vote would be transported to another undisclosed location for voting. We could not find out where and when.
Back at the hotel we compiled our monitoring reports, which was not an easy task as there was much to report. For that, we had to synchronize our notes adding all ...


