Staying with an Egyptian family in the Western desert
by We struggled to get up early as it was very cold outside. The setting was beautiful in the morning light… Dressing up warmly we set …
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A slow day towards the Western Desert
by We left Aswan at about 8am looking forward to tackling the last part of the journey to Alexandria through the Western Desert in Egypt. Not …
Longest border crossing: Into Egypt at last
This morning, while having breakfast, Kamal arrived at the hotel. Last night we contacted a new broker (or fixer) since Kamal didn’t sound too interested …
Housekeeping makes our day
We spent another day in Aswan waiting for the bikes to arrive, but still no luck. We are hoping that they will arrive tonight or …
Egyptian pizza and another visit to the souq
Last night before we went to bed we heard a huge commotion in the street – music, drums, cars hooting and lots of people – …
Waving the Motomias good bye
The plan was to meet Mazar in town at 11h00, but we haven’t spoken since the previous morning and we gave our passports to him …
Meeting a donkey called Chevrolet
We had a slow morning as everything in Sudan normally only starts happening around 10 am. We ended up at another little road side café …
Temporarily detained in Abri
We woke up only to find that we did end up in the front yard of a little house last night :o) It was a …
Beautiful desert road to Karima
We had a very interesting non-South African typical Sudanese breakfast this morning – a fried fish with head, eye and all! We sat at a …
Visiting Sudan’s nr 1 tourist attraction
We set off North towards Shendi from Khartoum at lunch time feeling well-rested, happy from all the good food and wow(!) my clothes were smelling …
