Khartoum Hotels - Reviews and Rates

It's too hot to move today. You shower and the water evaporates before it can even seep into your pores. I'm not even joking, but I wish I were. There were less bugs last night, but with no wind whatsoever it was incredibly stifling in our tent. It is very difficult to get to sleep when you are tossing and turning in your own sweat, trying to av...

As a quick re-cap of our trip so far: After selling our house and quitting our jobs, we left Toronto, Canada on January 8th, 2007. Our 1st stop was Budapest, Hungary, followed by Germany. Then we spent 3 months in India. Currently we are part of an Overland Trip from Istanbul to Cape Town, and have visited Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt a...

Will I manage to write this English entry before the computer crashes? That's what happened every other time, so let's give another try. I am at work right now; it's almost 5pm and it seems like only now can I tackle the work that needs to be done. Everything before 5pm is meetings, management and donors. Now is when it really starts: I put my i...

Woke up about 7ish, apparently bit of trouble last night with locals looking at our bags and getting closer to us, they backed off once they realised a couple of people were awake and watching them. I had tied my bag to the boat and I was using it as a pillow, so they weren't going to get that! Had bought chocolate croissants for breakfast ( I h...

Here is my place... I am close to the hair salon, take a left at the dirt road...then a left and the dirt area...

I posted this on my friend Erin's Blog. Her's is far more interesting then mine I will admit. And she was a bit of a muse. It was from an article about the sadness of a donation of 'dog food' for starving Kenynians. Its a ********cept to swallow... Africa does strange things to sadness. It will be offically 3 months in Sudan this week. I too rea...

Where I had to find the Alien Registration Office to register. Difficult...

Sudan here we are!   We crossed the border a week and a half ago.   This had potential to be one of our more challenging journeys.   The British Foreign Office do not recommend the journey because of  the current civil war in Sudan.  But the confidence of the Sudanese  embassy in Addis Ababa about the safety of the route, and the handful  of tra...