PHOTOS AND TRAVEL TIPS FOR SUDAN
 

If you want travel tips, see photos, or just getting ideas of where to travel in Sudan, have a look at www.jeremierita.canalblog.com

Click on the photos album on the right hand side. There are comments for every photo.

If you have any questions on this country, don't hesitate to ask.

Enjoy!

enjoyed your pictures. Quite the travels!

Some lovely photos. Based on one of your other posts, it appears one of your travel tips for Sudan would be to avoid that destination.

With a year's time spent in Sudan, you would have good insights for such a recommendation.

Sudan indeed would not score very high on ly top destination list. Khartoum is very hot, sandy, and without much interest, and with lttle to do. The 'hioghlights' are generally speaking quite disappointing. For the desert fanatics and nomadic tribes die-hard, there shall find some joy, but it is then a very different expectations of tourism. I did not find people very warm either. The south of the country of very different. It's not desert anymore but savanah and green forest. Landscapes would be more interesting. Though I did not like Sudan much, I had a fascinating experience with the Dinka tribe. The most remote tribes, living in rutal areas around Juba (3 hours bush drive north east) do not have any sign of modernity and stil live as they certainly did thousands of years ago. An amazing experience. Cattle define their social status, and you need loads of them to be able to marry. I would recommend to go there and see if you're very much into ethnic minorities. Check security first as security can be volatile (though things improved a lot since peace was made 2 years ago)

The Dinka tribe would be fascinating to visit. No plans to travel to Sudan anytime soon on my part. Thanks for your info.

you're welcome!

Jeremie - My 21-year-old college roommate is a native of Sudan, who left there with family for U.S. at age 2. Her mother returned to Sudan 12 years ago and likely will not return to U.S. My roommate would like to travel to Sudan to see her mother, who lives on the outskirts of Khartoum. Do you have any advice? Health/medical, shots, airline, cell phones, money? Other sources for pertinent info?

Oh my gosh, Jeremy, what a wonderful website you have. Your detailed report on India brought back so many memories of our trip there a year ago who was working with the tea farmers of Darjeeling.

We also had a driver with an Ambassador. The ONLY way to travel IMO. An amazing time, an amazing country (I think I'll pass on the Sudan, at least for now, though.) Thanks

going too quickly and should have previewed: meant to say that we were visiting my daughter living in Darjeeling at the time.

Jeremie, great website, really enjoyed reading it. I booked marked your page, it will take me days to read it. Thanks for the link. Your photos are beautiful and my husband had fun reading the French captions.

Pat

wow, thank you so much for all your compliments. Great to read that!!

will try to respond to your questions Kimd (though maybe you can be a bit more explicit with what you want to know exactly)
Medical: the usual vaccinations are required (yellow fever, hepatit, etc. Ask a specialist doctor, he'll organise that for you.
airlines : most go through Cairo, it's not that expensive. All depends where you come from obviously. Do your visa long time ahead. As you know, the political situation is still hot, and foreigners are not always welcomed by the government of Sudan.
Cellphone: you can either bring your own and buy a sim card or buy a phone there. Whatever you choose, it's easy and relatively cheap.

Don't hesitate to get back to me if you need more.

Hello Jeremie,
Don't know how I missed these wonderful pictures. Looks like you roughed it a bit at the campsite. Are you still in Africa? Where next? Your adventures are always facinating.
Merci;
Sherry

Yes, still in Africa. Just came back to Congo after a week in Rwanda. Tens of thousands of people are being eviected from Tanzania, so I went to havea look at the situation. Just gave some infos on my blog about it, if interested.

Next trips shall be Lebanon and then Colombia.

What a heartbreaking and disasterous mess. Do you think more funding or help is coming?
Hope you and Rita can keep up your energy to continue your good work.
Kind regards;
Sherry

Some help is coming. The red cross movement is doing a great job. Hopefully more funding will come through.
Quite depressing to see that even a reasonable country like Tanzania can behave so badly.

Yes, I agree as Tanzania seemed to be one the the more progressive countries in Africa. I wanted to say so on my last post except the last time I made a somewhat perceived political statement on this forum my thread got pulled.
Anyhow, that's good about the Red Cross.
It's just so sad for these poor people to keep getting shuffled around. Sure makes you appreciate your own life.
Merci;
Sherry