Dandas Hotel Khartoum
Corner Abu Sin & El Sharif St Khartoum, Sudan
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We soon got going again and at sunset stoppe a third time to eat, as in
ramadam you can only eat between certain hours of the day, starting at
sunset til quite early in the morning. So we stopped where some locals
had prepared food for some passers by, and us. The women went one way
and men the other. There was little english spoken but sitting alongside
the road in Sudan with 50 or so locals as the sun was setting ...
Trucking through Sudan to Khartoum
Despite being close to the new Blue Nile bridge, I had a good night's sleep. I dozed for hours before getting up for a late breakfast. My first stop for the day was the Omdurman souk with its alleys of shops and stalls. I resisted the taxi temptation.
Firstly, I took one bus to the east and south. A kind man walked me to ...
Sudan
... Also during the day 18 tank transporters with tanks passed us going up north. Here is everything peaceful, not like in Egypt at the moment. After lunch were drove into Khartoum in convoy. 34 km through the worst parts of town. We still don´t know where in the town our camp site is. The difference between he convoy here and in Egypt is quite remarkable. in Egypt when the police told the people to pull over to let us by they would ignore then or scream ...
Food Food Food and more Food
... year, the tour consumes something in the range of 9000 eggs. We once purchased a basket of 700 eggs from a man in Ethiopia who was carrying it on his back, looking like Atlas holding the globe. It took two of us to bring it carefully to the ground. For the vegetarians on the tour, the truck is filled with several huge crates of chickpeas, too heavy to move, waiting to be soaked, boiled and stewed for their eating pleasure. In total, by the time we reach Cape ...
Going To Jail on Day Two / Am 2. Tag ins Gefängnis
... ohne viel Umstände nach der Registrierung unserer Papiere passieren in die Wahllokale gebracht.
Beide Wahllokale befanden sich in einem ausgezeichneten Zustand, hell, freundlich, sauber und geräumig. Meinem Empfinden nach waren es sie in einem weitaus besseren Zustand als alle anderen, die wir bis dahin besucht hatten. Auch die Anzahl der lokalen und internationalen Beobachter und von nationaler Presse war besonders hoch im Männergefängnis. Zeitweise zählten ...


