Mar 28, 2012 - Khartoum to Wadi Halfa

Monday 19th March Khartoum to Meroe We left Khartoum for the north of Sudan today; ruins, desert and a Red Sea resort near Port Sudan. Because we are camping again, we had to buy quite a bit of food before we left the city. After shopping, we set off through flat sandy country, very washed out looking. There were hundreds of trucks and buses on the way, mostly headed to the largest port in the country, Port Sudan on the Red Sea. This port also serves Ethiopia as it doesn’t have access to the sea since Eritrea split from Ethiopia about 12-15...

Mar 18, 2012 - Khartoum

Friday 16th March Gondar Ethiopia to Gedaref Sudan Up early for our journey from Ethiopia down to the border and then into Sudan. We headed down from the mountains to the border at Metema where it was very hot (about 42C). The road from Gondar down to the border was very bendy and there were numerous small villages on the way. The truck took 3 hours to get through customs at the border while we as people only took about 1 hour. We had lunch in one of the small restaurants at the border whilst we waited for the truck. Once we had cleared...

Nov 21, 2011 - The Four Feathers

I'm not sure what country this should count as. During the time it was set, the area was part of Egypt (so that's what I've listed it as), but the area is now known as Sudan. If anyone is reading this and has advice on which country it should be, I'd appreciate hearing your opinions. I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed this book. I was able to listen to the greater part of it as I was on a long car ride. This is basically a story of a man's redemption from the accusation of injustice.

Dec 3, 2010 - To Old Fangak

Flying into Juba, Sudan looked like flying into a war zone. Smoking fires dotted the landscape and a smoky haze blanketed the horizon as we approached until we could see the shiny dots of tin roofs slowly turning into something that looked like a city. Juba is a bizarre city of typical Sudanese poverty mixed with a booming NGO economy. We stayed in a stone barracks-type building called a "hotel" that was $130 a night. Five years ago they say Juba had 10 cars- now it had hundreds, most of them Toyota Cruisers tattooed with "UN" or any other...

Nov 15, 2008 - Illegal Photos of Sudan

11/15/08 Several years ago, the US government blew up a pharmaceutical company in Sudan thinking, erroneously, that it was involved in the production of weapons of mass destruction. Since then, the Sudanese government has obviously been wary about letting US citizens into their country. Since our bus needed to travel through it to carry on to Egypt, we breathed a big sigh of relief when we obtained our visas in Addis Ababa (to the tune of US$200 apiece!), Ethiopia, and then an even bigger sigh of relief when the border officials let us into...

Jun 23, 2007 - Suakin

Suakin 23rd to 24th Suakin is an entry point for Sudan. You will see from the photos how desolate it is. The old town was built with coral and it has slowly crumbled to its present state which looks like it has been the site of a war. Suakin was the last slave port and was still trading until the end of the second world war. Nevertheless the people were friendly and we enjoyed the experience. Port Sudan, a much larger place was 30 kilometres north but Suakin was a much easier place to attain entry visas. I took the local bus up to Port...

Oct 4, 2005 - Uganda

Uganda! What an experience. Trying to put into words the first week in Africa will be impossible. I will try to give you a glimpse of what we have experienced. We arrived to Uganda and met up with our friend Heidi at the airport. She lives an hour away in Kampala. Heidi had emailed us that we would be busy if all went as planned. She arranged for me (Drew) to trek with the Gorillas in western Uganda. We quickly got back to Heidi's and immediately started strategizing our next three days. To get to western Uganda we will need to catch a...