143. Sudan Visa

143.

I have decided to cross Sudan so I visit the Sudanese Embassy to get a visa.

The Ambassador talks politics and “life” with me for a couple of hours, but won’t give me permission to travel overland across his country. He says that truck convoys do occasionally cross the desert, but that it is too dangerous for tourists. Bandits, hijackers, enemy soldiers and desert conditions make the route rather too unpleasant. He will give me a three-day transit visa, which will allow me to fly to Kartoum and on to Cairo.

Since I have talked to a French traveler who did cross the desert in one of the truck convoys and called it “seven days and nights of hell”. I don’t argue. Maybe I don’t need the experience. I’ll fly gladly!

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