Places to eat in Al Wilayah ash Shamaliyah

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In most of Sudan there are no restaurants or cafes as such catering for long distance travellers. What there are are small wayside cafes where the weary traveller can get tea, coffee and something cold to drink. Because of this, I packed an ice box with water and cans of drink, and another with bread, boiled eggs, sausages, cheese and halwa [tahnia].[ About 3 hours into our journey we decided to have a break at Um El Hassan's. It doesn't look much from the outside, but is quite decent inside. It obviously caters for bus parties as in front of the building is a large basin [tusht] surrounded by water containers, ibreeg, and jerrycans for passengers to do their ablutions when they want to pray.
We , however, just sat at a table and had our picnic which we supplemented with tea, coffee and bottles of cold water.

On our second trip we stopped at a cafe at Buhat. It was less developed even than the one above. Shade is available in the verandas, and native beds withoutmatresses are there to sit on. We were given a table and tray to put our food on, and had strong tea to drink. All very basic, but the hance to relax is welcome.

Before the Bayouda Desert road was made, lorries would travel over rough ground, so such rest places were indeed welcome, and at night the beds would be fought over!
However toilet facilities are not available for women.

Favorite Dish: Not applicable. But the tea and coffee were acceptable.
Tea cost 1SDG a glass.
coffee was SDG 1.5 per glass.
A bottle of water was SDg 1.