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maykal Says: Once you've walked up and down the main drag of Dongola a few times, and wandered around the palm groves, there really is only one other thing to do...take the ferry over to the opposite bank of the Nile. The ferry is a rather rickety old beast which crawls its way through...
maykal Says: Go for a walk...I know I say this for almost every place I visit, but really it is the best way to get to know a place. Dongola is a bit of a one-camel town, so it won't take long for you to get a feel for the place, then you can head out of town to one of the nearby...
2 hotels, same price, but utterly different!
maykal Says: OK, the first place we stayed in was a place recommended by our taxi driver (I forget the name)...we'd asked for cheap, and cheap was supposedly what we got. For what we did get though, we felt it was overpriced...a bare room with an unlockable door, a smelly outdoor toilet,...
ChanchitoDK Says: Heading north for Wadi Halfa and Egypt? As always, you'll have the three options; bus, lorry and boksi. There's a bus at least once a week to Halfa from Kermah (3 hours north of Dongolah by boksi), but it is TOTALLY crammed, and VERY rough! Usually 24 hrs from Halfa to...
Bruised and battered on the desert bus
maykal Says: You have to options from Khartoum. Either you can take the luxury SafSaf Express bus which bumps its way across the desert direct to Dongola, or you can take an ordinary bus which also bumps its way across the desert but takes a much longer route. SafSaf Express is quite a...
maykal Says: Dongola is fairly off the beaten path, but you can still avoid those backpackers by heading off to Dongola's suburbs...it doesn't take long to get away from the town centre, and soon you are in semi-rural communities where traditional farming methods are carried out. People...
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Go for a walk...I know I say this for almost every place I visit, but really it is the best way to get to know a place. Dongola is a bit of a one-camel town, so...
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Needing to leave Khartoum in a bit of a hurry (problems with landlord and school!) and Kassala not being ready to receive us just then, we decided to "make tourism", as the Sudanese say, and headed......
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