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| Sufis in Khartoum -- men only -- whip into ecstatic stupor. Note Barak Obama in the middle of the photo. Friday night in Khartoum |
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| Wallflowers on the same evening. No place for women, even in moderate Sufism
Click below to see some more photos of the last week or so.....
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| Latest fashions in Khartum, but if you prefer something a little less racy... |
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| .... then perhaps something a touch more demure may be for you. |
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| The mighty 'Stang at a coffee stop in the middle of the desert. Khartoum to Karima, Sudan. Temp: 44 degrees (every day...) |
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| Young Aimin, Nubian in Karima |
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| Young Nubian girls in Karima are real vamps for photos: here by Val |
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| And they bounce around the 'Stang... |
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| ... while their mums and aunties look on. |
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| Karima's own Uluru, early evening. |
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| Mini Pyramids in Karima, Sudan |
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| Study in Green. Most buildings in Sudan are mud. This one from the local sandstone. |
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| The Nubian Rest House. We started off in a Nubian House: considerably sparser. Cots and single squat toilet for 18... So we decamped to this one. Note the breast-like roofs: a sign of Nubia |
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| Cooling off near the Nile. Road to Kerma, north Sudan. Temp: 44 C. Gordon helps Ian and Val get their MGB cooling properly, rigs effective water spray from the windscreen washer tank to the radiator. Neat! |
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| Loading cars on barge in Wadi Halfa, Sudan, for the 24-hour trip to Aswan in Egypt. There is no civilian road between Sudan and Egypt. Wendy dashing on the left. [Note her Nubian clobber]. Since then, Ron's and her Kombi has a Carnet problem and they've had to leave it in Aswan. We await news... |
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| Lake Nassar at Wadi Halfa, Sudan. We went swimming here. Not real nice, but we needed a bath: no water available at the a Nubian House |
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| Arvo kip, waiting to leave a Nubian House, Wadi Halfa Sudan. It's 45 degrees in the shade. Not much shade... |
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| Our luggage is taken off the ferry from Wadi Halfa to Aswan in Egypt The ferry ride is 24 hours. Clearing customs in Egypt: four hours. Near riots at the Customs house, appropriately misspelled "hole". |
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| Sandi and Cris on a felucca, Aswan, Egypt Cool way to travel, huh! |
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| A young lad hitches a ride on our felucca The water's real nice! Sweet and clear |
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| Our felucca pulls in to Nile riverside. The owner is there in his traditional thawb (aka the "Dish-dash") I tried to negotiate a ride down to Luxor on his felucca, but couldn't get four more of my car-mates to make the quorum: also ladies concerned about bathing/ablutions... (The trip downriver would have taken three nights) |
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| The Old Cataract Hotel, Aswan, opened in 19th Century, and where Agatha Christie stayed to write "Death on the Nile". Part of the movie was filmed here as well. |
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| This is the 1902 restaurant in the Old Cataract. As the name suggests: opened in 1902. Omar Sharif also dined and stayed here and left a charming inscription |
