Kanon Hotel Suites Khartoum

... hands for his head to rest on. Why? Yet again, we do not know. He could have used the airline pillows that were provided. After getting her pillow back from butterhands, Brittany went to the bathroom on the airplane. Big mistake. The back of the airplane was a free for all food fight frenzy. Needless to say, nobody on this plane had every been on a flight before. After 2 hours in the air, we landed in Khartoum, Sudan. This airport was unlike any other we had ...

... army camp. The army camp that must have been very much the powerbase of General Bashir. First stop after finally leaving Shendi was at the pyramids of Meroe (dated 270 BC) and they are definitely worth the trip. We didn't have a permit but we could buy one on the spot (20 SP). There were a few souvenir sellers and one or two tourists but we basically could explore the pyramids by ourselves. The site is divided into two main clusters, the Northern and Southern Cemeteries which ...

... spraying the mattrasses we spread out our new white sheets and felt like being in first class! The huge air conditioner worked so well we had to turn it off again, but we were fortunate to have an outside cabin with a large opening porthole to the wharf and could see the locals streaming on board by the hundreds with mountains of luggage, and I am not talking of suitcaseses but enormous packages of all manner including whole fridges and washing machines ...

... the next morning. But it is just so hot here the fridge is working overtime. We quickly finished the milk and pineapple chunks for breakfast. The yogurt had to go. Wanting to do a bit of washing before we set off into the desert in a few days, I inquired where we could get our laundry done. The manager took me around the enormous complex and in the back were about a dozen middle-aged men all sitting around huge basins of water washing clothes. This was the first time I had ...

... making process. We are lethargic and astonished how people here can function on a daily basis. I can just imagine what Sudanese refugees to Canada must feel like during the dead of winter. Matt and I are contemplating going the more direct route to Jersey, via Libya and Tunisia, instead of doing the Middle East and Eastern Europe. It will be hot anywhere we go since it's the height of summer all over, but we would probably save on fuel, hotel rooms (if we ...

... and a plate of buttered rice. Everything is garnished with cinnamon and lime, a signature Middle Eastern flavour and very tasty. This restaurant served some fresh blended juices as well, and the mango+milk combination was absolutely divine. Because it was already dark, we hailed a couple of tuktuk's back to the campsite, little motorized rickshaws. We were told that each tuktuk can "only fit two-point-five persons" so we had to get two. It was still very hot and sticky out ...

... all. And I was completely naked. So screamed out of the window till someone alerted the hotel staff, they smashed down the hotel room door (no spare key) and then simply turned the key on the outside of the bathroom. Many grins were forthcoming from the staff at the hotel after that. Day 40 - To the Border The road to Shihedi was much better than anticipated and so despite leaving several hours late from Gonder I cruised into Shihedi ...

... DESERT, HERE WE COME! and with that we entered the largest sandbox around. There is no road, so it was a little bumpy sometimes (like a roller-coaster), and we had to dig out the truck about 6 times per day. We followed the train tracks and from the numbers of the abandoned stations we sort of knew where we were. (Somehow the numbering was not always continuous...) At station 3 we felt like children in the sandbox coming off a roller-coaster, so I ...

... the reasoning ... it's really easy to make it personnal as well : we all worked friggin' ******* this and there's no dialogue available. I'm taking it personal, I feel like I've let some people down (maybe that's why I'm writing in English tonite), but at the same time ... I am baffled! NGO stands for Non Governmental Organisation. Right now, our projects are financed by, well, various countries ! They're all nice people and it would be bad if they didn't put money into ...

... the reason Mother Teresa once famously proclaimed: "If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one, I will." But could it be that when faced with the tragedy of millions, people simply feel overwhelmed and helpless, rather than emotionally numb, as Slovic suggests? http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/1265/2 007/02/20-181858-1.htm http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms. php?story_id=3751&print=1