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Um el Hassan's: wayside cafe

by uglyscot

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...