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Photo Essay: Crossing the Heart of Africa
Blog: GoBackpacking - 24 February 2011
Photos from Julian Smith's 4,500-mile overland journey from South Africa to Sudan.---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 27 tutorials, private forum, audio interviews, and more.
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A new start for the Sudanese but ‘same same’ for Ugandans
Blog: Kampala Days (Diary of a Mzungu) - 8 February 2011
Welcome South Sudan! With 98% of the Sudanese voting ‘yes’ to partition of the country, I look forward to a new stamp on my passport. There are nine days to go to the presidential elections here in Uganda. The walls, lampposts and Palm trees are plastered with election posters. This nascent democracy (I’m being generous) [...]
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Camel Graveyard in the Sudanese Desert: Snapshot Sunday
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 15 August 2010
One day while we were cycling through the Sudan, we cam across an eerie site. Dead camels were strewn beside the highway buried in the desert sand. Their decaying corpses littered the desert for several kms as we cycled by.We had heard that as camel caravans walk through the desert some camels are not strong enough to make it. They are left to be engulfed by the great Nubian Desert sands.
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Inspirational People We’ve Met in our Travels.
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 29 June 2010
One of the things we love the most about travel is meeting new people. While we could compile a list of a hundred people that we have met that have become great friends and have been an inspiration, we wanted to share with you a few of the special people that have really stood out and touched our hearts during our travels around the world over the years. 1. Mary Louise in Paris, France, 2. Hussein in Udaipur, India, 3. Ajith in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka, 4. Abdulla Ahmed in Wadi Halfa, Sudan, 5. Kul and Mim Das Tamang in Kathmandu, Nepal
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Strangerness
Blog: Where the road goes - 2 May 2010
I don’t so much wake up as have the sleep evaporated from me. Morning in the Sudan drifts warm into the room. My bed sags forlornly, too worn to squeal in protest as I climb out of my sleeping bag; packing it and my toiletries into my backpack in minutes. I’m getting good at moving. [...]
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More Sudanese Reflection. With Video
Blog: Where the road goes - 10 April 2010
Nostalgia makes a fine mistress in the evenings. I’ve realised recently that finding interesting bits and pieces on travel blogs about Sudan is actually quite difficult. Searching for Sudan away from the South and Darfur, there is actually not a whole lot out there. So, in the interests of adding to the Internet, here is [...]
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Dave and Deb’s Surreal Moments Deserts Around the World
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 27 March 2010
We have done a post before on surreal travel experiences but nothing has compared to our time in India. India itself is a little surreal and we have experienced some of the weirdest moments in our travels. Not surprisingly, many of those moments happened in the desert.
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Atbara Afternoons
Blog: Where the road goes - 22 February 2010
The stories from good travels never really end. There is always a new one, a new gloss on an old one, or simply a retelling to someone who has never heard it before. Sometimes it’s a connected event that triggers a memory. Other times its a photo, a scrawl left on the pages of a [...]
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Oh The Mice I Have Seen
Blog: Where the road goes - 10 February 2010
For your entertainment and at least partly for my nostalgia, I kept a list traveling from Cape Town to Cairo of various interesting statistics. It makes for a colourful two minute retelling of the course of events. Cockroaches seen in hotel rooms: On at least four different occasions. Once occasion provided at least three individuals. Mice seen in [...]
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Two Sides to a Story
Blog: Where the road goes - 5 January 2010
Khartoum, Sudan. Pariah state of the western media, with a president indicted by the International Criminal Court for the genocide in Darfur. It’s Tuesday evening and the man in front of the taxi, who is taking time out of his own route, unasked, to find me a safe hotel and make sure I am settled [...]
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Not Getting Left in the Desert. A Christmas Tale.
Blog: Where the road goes - 2 January 2010
I left Khartoum early on Christmas morning. You wouldn’t think it was. Absolutely nothing slows in Khartoum. Unsurprising, but strange. Only a sandstone church, alone in a landscape of crescent minarets outside the bus window, was sheltering its flock from the morning sun. Connecting them in spirit to what consumes the place I call home [...]
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Things Remembered. Things Not.
Blog: Where the road goes - 31 December 2009
Watching Abu Simbel shining in the night sky and surrounded with the dark desert beyond, brought in on the cold winds that cut across the deck of our ferry, I said my silent goodbyes to Sudan. In truth, I had said farewell out loud, in person, the evening before. Standing in the dust beyond the [...]
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The Beginning of the End
Blog: Where the road goes - 21 December 2009
I’ve been in Ethiopia for almost two weeks now. It’s been a delicious downtime from constant traveling up to this point – a chance to stop thinking about Cairo, about endings, about the fact that nothing lasts forever. But this morning it will be time to move on. To Metema at the edge of Ethiopia [...]
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Sudan by Numbers
Blog: Africa Attraction - 17 December 2009
Day 64 21.11.09Gonder (Ethiopia)-GeradefAccommodation: Again, I can’t remember...
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Time and Money
Blog: Africa Attraction - 11 December 2009
It turned out that the game of football that we planned to settle Sudan’s differences with wasn’t going to be needed after all.
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Chasing Unicorns. The Sudanese Visa.
Blog: Where the road goes - 10 December 2009
Taken straight out of my journal notes. Disclaimer for poor grammar,etc It’s moving day again today. Somehow another three mosquitos managed to get into my mosquito net and haunt my dreams. I wonder sometimes if it’s not called a mosquito net because it attracts them. I’m not feeling entirely well this morning – almost fluey. Putting [...]
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A Little Break…An Unexpected Stop in Wadi Halfa, Sudan.
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 20 October 2009
The is the first guest post on A Little Adrift and it couldn’t be a better way kick it off. Dave and Deb, perhaps better known as ThePlanetD.com, have a lot of respect heaped their way from me for their biking adventure across the length of Africa in the Tour d’Afrique. They haven’t stopped there and have taken part in adventure travels all over the globe and are only going to add to those adventures next month as they leave Canada and their day jobs behind and plan to travel ...
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Some of the Gear. Still Not Much of an Idea
Blog: Africa Attraction - 16 September 2009
Out of bed at 8.30am. Coffee. Toast. Shower. Go to Africa.That’s the plan today. So how do I feel?Nervous?Excited?
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Funny Travel Photo – The Plastic Box Bathtub
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 30 August 2009
This is a guest post from Dave and Deb from ThePlanetD who have kindly submitted their Funny Travel Photo of the week. Cycling the continent of Africa can be a tough undertaking to say the least, but nothing prepares to the conditions you will face in the Sudan. We spent six solid days riding though the desert [...] Related posts:Funny Travel Photos From Africa
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Top 10 Fears about Cycling Through Africa
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 14 August 2009
We had traveled around the world before, but this was something completely different. After all, it was going to be our first time camping in the desert and in the jungle, it was going to be our first time stepping foot on the African soil and it was our first time ever crossing an entire continent on bicycle. We were in for quite and adventure.
