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Hospitality Palace Hotel: comfortable but not cheap
yurxlnc Says: This was formerly a Sudan Railways-owned rest house.The rooms are comfortable and have air conditioning.The food is good. However the price is expensive for what is offered. The food is plentiful with very large portions.
uglyscot Says: The bus to Kosti is comfortable enough though the road itself is bumpy in places. The trip lasts 4 hours. A film is shown, snacks are provided, but there are no toilets or stops to allow people to relieve themselves, so go canny on the liquids.It costs 25,000Sd =$12 US for a...
sugar factories in the Kusti area
yurxlnc Says: Near Kosti are some of the largest sugar factories : Kenana Sugar Factory, Asalaya Sugar Factory, and soon Kenana 2 Sugar factory.After a long period of sugar shortages in the 1980s, the Sudan is now exporting quantities of sugar and is self sufficient in the...
yurxlnc Says: the rural areas of Sudan are not very exciting for a tourist who likes to see man-made structures, enjoy night-life etc. They give those with a more adventurous outlook on life the chance to see life as it was a hundred years and more ago. No civilization as Westerners...
uglyscot Says: There are a number of sugar factories in central Sudan. the largest is at Kenana [see also Sinnar, off the beaten track] not far from Kosti, and at Asalaya also nearby. across the White Nile on the east bank.
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The bus to Kosti is comfortable enough though the road itself is bumpy in places. The trip lasts 4 hours. A film is shown, snacks are provided, but there are no...
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Kosti lies on the eastern bank of the White Nile, about 280 km south of Khartoum. In the pre-Civil War days it was important as a port for boats and barges carrying passengers and goods to the south...
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It has been suggested that Kusti [or Kosti in local pronunciation] was named after a Greek trader called Costa, when Kosti was a busy trading post on the river route to the southern Sudan.. With the...
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