Lisamin Safari Hotel Khartoum

... me and starts washing the dishes only pausing to fire a stern look in Marvin’s direction to make him hurry. Once we are done with packing up she takes us to her house. Here her family is already waiting to welcome us. They serve tea. Galia shows us into a room and firmly pushes me down onto one of the beds. ‘Nicole rest!’. Despite just having had our daily average of 10 hours sleep, I dutifully lie down. Next we must visit the family of the richest ...

... through in, what must have been, an illegal fashion. Once on the Sudanese side we had to have our visa checked and stamped, the carnet completed and the security registration done. For all this we had to give two passport sized photographs and a print of our right thumb. All paperwork, so we are wondering who ever is going to sort out this mess. At least the Ethiopians used computers. It only cost two hours and we were on the road again, tarmac all the way to ...

... we simply cannot camp due to the extreme heat), time and most importantly, sanity. It was close to midnight when we climbed into our tent, but the temperature was still incredibly hot. We conducted our tossing-and-turning-in-our-sweat ritual again, and finally fell asleep. Start: National Camping, Khartoum, SUDAN. End: National Camping, Khartoum, SUDAN. Distance Traveled: 0 Road Conditions: - Temperature: 44 degrees Celcius and not a breath of wind. Enough said.

... Embassy in Cairo. But we get no answer. We have taken so long getting here that he has by now, no doubt, returned to his home in the Republic of Slovakia. We do get a hold of Abu, the Indonesian student and will meet him tomorrow. We spend the rest of the day walking around the city and getting our bearings. January 16, 2008 There are some ancient Nubian sights worth visiting in Sudan but they all seem to be north of here back on the way to Egypt. A trip ...

... point. To be honest I'd started waving my way through most of the checkpoints, feigning ignorance.) but this time decided I'd best stop. I was actually a whole load of Muslim men breaking their Ramadan daily fast near a village called Amdangla. They were inviting all weary (and hungry) travellers for refreshments. I eagerly accepted. An ice-cold lemonade was pressed into my hand (at first I thought it was VERY murky water and sipped ...

Après une longue absence, un petit blog pour souligner cette journée. Aujourd'hui souligne mon arrivée au Soudan il y a exactement un an au Soudan. Aujourd'hui souligne mon départ du Soudan dans exactement une semaine! Départ le 3 juillet pour Paris pour quelques jours de debriefing (et de shopping!), puis week-end à Londres, histoire de visiter une ...

... après? Du repos, Montréal, les amis, la famille ... j'en dirais plus que je mentirais ... planifier annulerait tout le côté repos! À court terme: visite à Bentiu la semaine prochaine (insha' allah), des rapports, des rapports, des rapports; le moi de mai à Khartoum (sauf peut-être...) et juin en bouclage de boucles! Et dans tout ça, j'espère réussir à rester aussi zen que je le suis après ce merveilleux break parisien ... quoique c'est moins facile sans chocolatines et cie...

... off the normal touristic route. After Gedaref we made an epic journey to Port Sudan, one of the most  important sea ports on the Red Sea.  And we can confirm that it stinks  of fish.  We made a day trip south to Suakin - a city made out of coral that was deserted about 100 years ago, as the British colonisers moved the  sea port north to Port Sudan.  What is left now is a decaying ghost town. Very atmospheric.  From Port Sudan to Atbara - a place full of decaying ...