Khartoum

Our overland trip from London to Cape Town, through Europe, a section of the Middle East and the east coast of Africa. It'll be Luci, Shawn, Ange and myself for most of the trip, but we'll have a few special guests making appearances en-route. We ...

This blog is the story of our trip through africa from London to Cape Town in a 1993 Ford Courier Double Cab 4x4. Its name is Corrie. Our Crew consists of 3 Auditors, or has been auditors. Andre Buchner, Dave Colley and Rob Knowles, aged 26, 27, 27 ...

... around 1830, is younger than Sydney. This is ancient Africa mixed with cradle-of-civilisation Ethiopia and Arabia. But Khartoum wasn't much before General Gordon and the Mahdi, and with multiple sackings and colonial conquests followed by the unenviable ...

... the lack of beer. As for the ice cream, I haven't had it for over 3 months so just couldn't resist a sugar hit. Khartoum itself is fantastic. The city is very spead out and is quite modern. There is much fewer colonial buildings than I expected. ...

... The other man seemed to want us have imprisoned at least, maybe worse. We decided not to take any further pictures in Khartoum or Omdurman. Imagine having shots of the Parliament, the ministry of Information (TV and radio), the Mahdi's tomb, just another ...

... border without travel permits. January 15, 2008 Khartoum, Sudan This morning we walk to the Ethiopian Embassy. Walking anywhere in Khartoum is difficult. There are few sidewalks and we usually have to climb over or around piles of rubble or take ...

... and only direction sign in Sudan after 40km telling us we were on the wrong road. It finally took us over 4 hours to negotiate Khartoum.  I awoke a few hours later to find we were pulling over. No air in the brakes and no accelerator. 7.30 and we ...